.......'The Who?'
'Yes, or them'
That's the funniest joke in the whole film, but again, George and Mildred is an endearing film adaptation of the sitcom, because we all know a couple like the titular pair, and you don't really have to look that far sometimes.
The plot is as thus, it's their weeding anniversary, and the restaurant where George proposed to Mildred sounds like the ideal romantic evening.
But it's turned into a biker bar that serves all their food with chips and seventies smut.
So Mildred decides they should have a weekend at the world famous London Hotel, where George 'hilariously gets mistaken for a Hit-man by Stratford Johns using a really awful accent, and wearing an even sillier wig.
And that's the film.
What struck me the most about this film was just how many people were literally killed in this adaptation of a family sitcom. I counted at least four people shot to death by Kenneth Cope, which sat uncomfortably with me for a film of this genre.
Roper and Joyce are perfectly fine in their respective roles, and although it's an awkward marriage at times, they have wonderful chemistry.
So it's a comedy of mistaken identity, much like 'Blame It On The Bellboy' and it's as British as meat and two veg.
We have pratfalls, amorous blondes, threatening bikers with Love and Hate tattoos, car chases, and your token Spanish stereotype.
It's pretty funny in a 'you won't laugh' sense, and it's quite sad that the last image in the film is the late Yootha Joyce breaking the fourth wall and winking at the audience....
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