Rayting:
5.9/
10 7.6K votes
Language: English
Release date: 4 May 1990
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When their boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. They ...
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This one didn't have the marketing push that A Fish Called Wanda had. Still it's as good a comedy and worth watching
Fmovies: If you have a comedy starring two of England's best, Eric Idle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) and Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid in the harry Potter movies), then you just have to watch. This was a charming little comedy about two guys trying to go straight, but pulling one last job and ending up in a nunnery.
Of course, you have the Catholic jokes, and the guys in a girls dorm jokes, some Oscar-nominated talent, an MBE, and a nude girl in a shower, but that's all icing on the cake.
British comedy is just fin to watch. You won't end up on the floor laughing, but you will chuckle for the whole 89 minutes.
Jonathan Lynn (The Fighting Temptations, The Whole Nine Yards, My Cousin Vinney) wrote and directed this film, and you know he can make us laugh.
Sort of an updated "Some Like It Hot", "Nuns on the Run" casts Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies) as a pair of bumbling gangsters who have to pose as nuns to hide from their employers, a rival gang, and the cops. There are more than a few scenes that they must have REALLY had fun filming! It's one movie that's guaranteed to restore anyone's faith...in slapstick humor, that is.
Yes, it's nice, brainless fun, complete with a scene whose target audience is probably 14-year-old boys. I particularly liked the scene with the gutter, but the truth is that the whole movie is a good time. Another fine accomplishment from George Harrison's HandMade Films (Harrison is even credited at the beginning of the movie).
And remember: we have to keep sinning to keep Jesus in business!
PS: Janet Suzman (Sister Liz) is the niece of anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman.
Nuns on the Run fmovies. Nuns on the Run has to be one of the funniest british movies ever made. From the very start it is genuinely funny. I have been a big fan of Eric Idle for years due to The Monty Python films,sketches etc and in Nuns on the Run is comic standard is definitely up to scratch. If you like a laugh or brit films, watch this.
This has got to be one of the most funniest films I have ever seen. All right, the plot is a bit over the top but it is just so funny! Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle perfectly fit the bill of bungling villains and they spark off each other from the start. In my mind, these two are probably the best double act in a film for a long while. Camille Coduri is great and Lila Kaye is absolutely hilarious as Sister Mary of the Annunciation. A definite must see!
I remember seeing this when it was out in theaters. It was the first Python-related film I ever saw on the big screen and thus will always have a special place in my heart. That, and it's funny as hell (or heaven, as the case may be).
There are lots of memorable quotes ("God is like a shamrock -- small, green and split three ways.") and hilarious performances. I've always loved the scene where Robbie Coltrane finds a unique use for a bedpan. And the music -- by Yello and Hidden Faces -- is perfect.
As comedies go there have been funnier ones than "Nuns on the Run," but it works more often than not, and that's what really matters.