Fawlty Towers

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Comedy

I first saw Fawlty Towers on tv when I was a child, and remember only vaguely. Had me a chance to watched it again recently and it still cracked me up. The physical comedy as well as the interaction between all the characters is absolutely priceless. Although there were only 12 episodes produced, "Fawlty Towers" goes a long way to proving that quality and quantity are not always the same thing. Very few in life give me as much laughter as watching episodes of Fawlty Towers does and i'm not even English. I can inderstand why it reaches a cult status among tv viewers in the UK.

The show it self is a comedy with great humour about Basil Fawlty (John Cleese who play Q in the newest Bond movies), a retard, and his wife Sybil, a nag, to run a hotel with the help of their maid, Polly, a nice girl, and the help of their busboy Manuel, who can't speak a word of English. All of these 4 people create an environment in which it seems impossible to run a Hotel properly, for many people leave the place, never to return again. Everyday events at the hotel are continually confusing and maddening for both guests and hosts. The situations created, though sometimes exaggerated are very funny in a slapstick kind of way. I literally laugh my arse off on the floor.

Fawlty Towers would not be the success it is without more than flaws in character to work with. The writers of the series must be either ingenious plot manipulators, or be extremely depraved in every sense of the word, as every problem encountered uses the most of the setting and characters to stir the plot and twist it into something that resembles reality, yet at the same time hillariously and histerically funny. They don't produce this kind of gem anymore, and that's a pity.