Set up by their boss to be knocked off following a final heist, soon-to-retire crooks Brian and Charles get wind of their impending demise and run off with the spoils of their crime. But when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school...
18 April 1965, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
9 February 1939, Johannesburg, South Africa
1953, England, UK
24 July 1965, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
14 July 1918, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
29 March 1943, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1925, England, UK
1 March 1905, Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
6 September 1960, London, England, UK
1947, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
August 30, 2004
The gags run the gamut from obvious to odious.
July 16, 2004
A spot of good cheer, especially if you're looking for a movie that asks little of its viewers.
May 16, 2005
...a disastrously unfunny mess.
March 17, 2003
Complete crap. Idle and Coltrane have both been much better.
September 16, 2004
Pretty much a one-joke film, and the joke feels about 20 years old.
July 29, 2002
"makes a habit of being unfunny"
