Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Vincent Cassel

Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famo...( read more  read more... )us Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting! Another family come to the hotel as it is the only one they can afford, and when Richie uses the many tunnels and airways to steal some of their rubber bikinis, then is caught by the family's dad, he tries everything to get the video back. When Eddie finds some radioactive fish and it's served to the customers, a bunch of power plant workers find out and a quaratine is on its way. Even worse, when Gina's estranged fiance arrives, all hell breaks loose! Just in time for Eddie, Richie and Gina to escape to the Carribean and spend all their new found money!

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R, 89 min.

Directed by: Adrian Edmondson

Release Date: January 1, 1999

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  • May 21, 2008
    "As we always say at the Guest House Paradiso: Have fun, don't go in the water if you know what's good for you and try not to get shit on the sheets."


    Guest House Paradiso is a comedy filled to the brim with nothing but non-stop laughter, physical gags and sex

    ...( read more)ual innuendo. The creative team behind this film also created two popular TV shows: The Young Ones and Bottoms. The whole film is beguilingly tempting comedy - each scene being nothing more than a myriad of hilarious gags and little plot emerging.


    Richie (Mayall) and Eddie (Edmondson) run the worst hotel in the entire British Isles: thieving manager, drunken immigrant chef and a former mental patient for a waiter. This is a hotel that makes Fawlty Towers look like attractive 5-star accommodation. The two bumbling nitwits, Richie and Eddie, have their establishment right next to a nuclear power plant. The only regulars at the hotel are a bunch of power plant workers who drop by to get drunk, as well as an elderly woman named Mrs. Foxfur (Fielding) who appears to be conned quite frequently. After an opening that clearly shows the kind of stupidity the two protagonists continually exhibit, the hotel is cleared of many residents. Things begin looking up when a small family voluntarily checks in for a stay. They are then overshadowed when beautiful famed actress Gina Carbonara (Mahieu) checks in with the intent of escaping her Italian playboy fiancé that she doesn't want to marry. What follows is a night of complete disaster. Radioactive fish, crazed Italian, vomiting house guests...everything imaginable as the central characters move from one disaster to the other.


    Guest House Paradiso focuses solely on the laughs as opposed to a plot. It's a difficult task to justifiably outline the plot in any great detail because everything would then be spoiled. As an alternative to a plot we just have a straightforward series of events. With the thought in mind of a night of plain disaster, we are treated to a repulsive (occasionally disturbing) series of events. By the end of it you will want to vomit as strongly as some of the guests. During the film's final 40 minutes of non-stop hilarity and gags I was both choking with laughter and feeling mighty queasy from the disgusting events that unfold.


    The two main characters are a talented duo that will be familiar to fans of the creative team. Both Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson have their moments of utter hilarity. It's the clichéd odd couple: one of them has brains (using those words loosely), the other does not. Those of you familiar with the film will agree when I say that the opening kitchen brawl shows the agility and talent of the two leading performers. It's a hilarious combination of slapstick gags with some overwhelming violence (surprisingly enough). This string of nothing but gags and laughter is very memorable as well. You will either be quoting the dialogue, re-enacting scenes or discussing these scenes in detail with another who has seen it.


    From the front cover and trailer, Guest House Paradiso promised to be nothing more than a bit of light-hearted entertainment that isn't at all tasteful. This assumption is extremely correct - it's nothing but funny mindless gags that make a fun way to spend 85 minutes of your time. Not classic comedy in any sense, but if you're easily entertained and enjoy puerile, disgusting humour then this is the one to rent (or buy).
  • September 7, 2007
    Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson (as well as Simon Pegg and Bill Nighy in pre-Hollywood roles) revive cult TV series Bottom in what can best be described as a cross between Fawlty Towers and Itchy & Scratchy. It's strength is in some of the throwaway lines, but the slapstick violence...( read more) often gets a little tiresome (how many times do you really need to see someone hit in the groin?) It's tasteless, crass and completely lacking in subtlety. It's also occasionally very funny. Hardly a classic, but far from the worst TV comedy to film adaptation.
  • February 18, 2007
    An absolute travesty of a film. Like so many Brit TV characters, this just can't stretch to a full length feature. Vile humour without being funny. Unlikeable and makes a mockery of some great actors.
  • May 20, 2007
    These pair are superb together.
  • October 14, 2009
    hilariously funny,!,
  • August 6, 2009
    Random and retarded but still funny.
  • June 4, 2009
    One of the best funny double acts. Simon Pegg is in this to hmmmm :P
  • April 17, 2009
    Not a patch on the series or the stage shows. If you want to see the best of Riche and Eddie watch those instead.
  • November 3, 2008
    wow ermmn this is ok i guess...this is just so completley different to there hit tv series/seasons The Young Ones, nd Bottom which i think were just so brilliantly written acted out throughout the 1980's/early 1990's but i am not sure which was better bottom or the young ones be...( read more)cause they are both so exellent tv shows to watch they are all really enjoyable but the movie is ok...it has a good cast of charcaters throughout the movie its gross..its got simon pegg (from the hit tv show spaced, the amazingly brilliant shawn of the dead, mission impossible 3 n hot fuzz) he is a great comedy actor throughout the stuff hes done..this movie is ok but i think that the tv series was probobly better than the movie but the live on stage stuff that bottom done was brilliantly made as well as the tv shows
  • October 13, 2008
    omg this is absolutely hillarious!!

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  • jbrad175
    June 22, 2007
    this is my favorite move and has been for years, its so funny.

    quote:

    cusomer: where do your eggs come from

    rick: hens vaginas
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    and

    customer: my egg stil hasent arived

    rick: thats because you went though your metapores 40 years ago youold bag.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    and in one part richy axidentley gets a candle in his eye he says

    richy: CANDLE. IN THE EYE

    eddy: righty doky then

    he lights the candle and puts it in richys other eye
  • rachelrowell
    June 14, 2007
    Bottom you mean? LOVE IT.
  • evilhomer252
    October 30, 2006
    Brilliant movie this. Has anyone seen the TV series the film is loosely based on?

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