After watching bits and pieces of this film on a number of occasions, I finally sat down and watched this movie, and I have to say it was wonderful. As someone who was born in the early-80s, much of the decade remains a blur to me, but the mix of a Grange Hill-style school and a typically active Cleese performance for me, makes this a classic British comedy and helps to illustrate the world I grew up in. From the moment go, pupils and passers-by appear to hate Cleese and when finally some love comes his way in the form of Pat, he is quick to throw it back in her face and drive her (literally!) to insanity inside a typically drab car! The plot - which sees Cleese race against time to get to Norwich - is very on edge in a British kind of way. It 's not on edge in terms of a film like Speed or Lethal Weapon, but its on edge in a format that only a British film could be - the fact that a silly meeting appears to mean the world to this man. A great production, which should receive the same recognition as A Fish Called Wanda.