Party Party

This was one of the first films i ever rented when my family first bought a VCR & 21 years later i still think its one of the funniest British comedies ever!most of the humour will be lost on our American cousins as it is VERY British!(It also helps if you were a teen at this time.Fantastic soundtrack also!Lots of familiar TV faces included(anyone remember Brush Strokes!).Daniel Peacock is brilliant as the hapless Toby,Especially dancing to Gene Genie!This film is so quotable too (Easily as many repeatable lines as say,Pulp Fiction).Not to everyones taste but worth a nostalgic look!

p.s Can you smell horses?

This is a vintage film from a vintage era.It gave a realistic look at what the younger generation actually got up to ( especially at christmas,new year time ) during the 80's.It is a film that you can watch over and over again and still laff at ( even with its cheesy one liners )the antics that Toby and company get up to.

If you were an English teenager during the 80's then you MUST see this film. To everybody else it will just be an odd curiosity. For me, it is the funniest film in existence and is one of the only films to have more quotable lines than Apocalypse now.

I didn't think I would like this movie so much, I thought I would see a silly little English comedy. But the film is very well made, very well acted and has many comical moments. Phoebe Nicholls and Kim Thomson are both very talented and attractive. And, throughout the film, the best music of the 80s flows song after song, the most famous being: Blondie/Heart of glass, Sex Pistols/Something Else, The Clash/Brand New Cadillac, The Clash/Death Or Glory, Madness/Driving In My Car, Madness/Crying Shame, Go Go's/Our Lips Are Sealed, Go Go's/We Got The Beat, Midge Ure/The Man Who Sold The World, David Bowie/Jean Genie, Roxy Music/Love Is The Drug, Roxy Music/The Same Old Scene, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark/Enola Gay, Jeff Beck/Hi Ho Silver Lining, The Stranglers/No More Heroes, Elvis Costello And The Attractions/Party Girl, Elvis Costello And The Attractions with The Royal Guard Horns/Party Party.

Although you probably had to see it first time round to appreciate this superb early 80's Brit-flick(most of the films fans are likely to be in their 40's now)I can still watch this film time after time.

The music and the one-liners are brilliant, "can you smell horses?" every time Toby comes near with his Wild Stallion aftershave, "Has anyone ever told you how pretty you are?" to a suicidal boyfriendless Caroline Quentin in the bathroom scene "No" - "Doesn't surprise me!"

It seems every time I watch it I see someone different who is now famous,(also I never realized til now that Clive Mantle from Casualty played the big biker Bobby Sloane)

I notice that Nick Berry gets star billing on the video cover even though he probably says 2 lines in the whole film, yet the main character Perry Fenwick "Larry" doesn't get a mention. I guess this would change if re-released as he is now on our screens 4 times a week in Eastenders.

"Youths of today" would probably yawn at this film and go off to watch "American Pie",so its probably best left to its fans who were growing up in Britain at the time..........