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Ooh... You Are Awful

March 2022 The Uk version is called "ooh you are awful" rather than the title thats on imdb. A British comedy starring Dick Emery as a con man and on the whole its very likeable, good but not great. The main interest for me about this now is the fact that there was a film made in Hong Kong called "aces go places" or "mad mission" depending on the version you are watching, that uses this as its template, that is superior to this film and features lots of James Bond gadgets as well as the comedy and action. Aces go places was very successful and in fact was followed by 4 sequels, i think those 5 films are all great. As for OOh you are awful, yes i like it but as i said its not the best. 7.5 out of 10.

A London confidence trickster, Charlie Tully (Dick Emery) uses a variety of disguises to carry out his con tricks. When Reggie (Ronald Fraser), his randy colleague and sidekick is killed he discovers that the clues to the combination to a safe are tattooed on the buttocks of a number of Reggie's female conquests. Not really a saucy comedy as such, but a comedy that definately has something of the saucy seaside postcard about it, but is both dated and works less well today. Emery was better in the short sketch shows he did in the 1960s and 70s. The whole effort also seems rather dull.

There is never a dull moment in this film. I have seen it many times and expect to see it a few more before its interest starts to pall. Dick Emery and the team should get a posthumous Oscar!

Dick Emery plays all of his most loved characters in this film. The plot revolves around Emery and his recently deceased former partner in crime. Eight women have tattoos on their bums which Emery has to find. It is actually a very clever and original plot. It would be ideal for a remake by Austin Powers. I have a feeling it could have been funnier though; probably by NOT including all of Emery's TV characters. Sometimes they appear in a very unnatural way.

I remember this film vividly which I saw as a 12 year old. It is true to say that much of the set gags were somewhat gaudy humour and many of the scenes are contrived to allow Emery to show off his various characters doing their set pieces that we had seen a ten dozen times before in his TV series. Even so, the movie has one central saving factor that made it a hoot. It is how the central character is able to walk through endless assassination attempts unscathed as the two criminal gangs out to kill him keep mutually liquidating each other in the most amusing of manners. ll-in-all, worth seeing, but not worth busting the bank to buy on ebay.

I love Dick Emery's TV shows , but this is nowhere near the same quality. It does start well, but soon runs out of steam, and the fact some of his regular characters are missing in action doesn't help. Worth a one time watch, but it isn't something most people will find themselves going back to.

Dick Emery is rarely seen these days as the P.C. backlash would be huge, his characters beloved at the time would now be out of step with modern expectations - A Pity really. And so to the film...made at the height of TV to Film transfers it tells of Charlie Tully's attempts to find where his late partner had placed the bank details of a job they pulled...they just happen to be on 4 girls bottoms. Saying that it's still quite an innocent film - The brief shots of bottoms are non sexual - I wonder if a few years on in the post confessions world it would have been such. Emery runs through several of his characters during his search in this farce which is entertaining if light. A product of a time sadly passed.