Comedy

• Shark Tale | Blu Ray | (04/06/2019) from £18.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Can't Hardly Wait | DVD | (22/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This underrated teen comedy from 1998 is guilty of being a proud underachiever, and it doesn't bring anything new to the genre, but look closely and you'll find the makings of a much better movie buried under all the keg-party antics. The basic story is typical for this kind of comedy. A young, aspiring writer named Preston (Ethan Embry) has been lusting after class beauty Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt, from TV's Party of Five) for four years of high school, but he's never had the nerve to tell her. Now that they're about to graduate he has finally worked up the courage to write her a soul-baring love letter. At the raucous graduation keg party that takes up most of the movie's 98 minutes, Preston agonises while Amanda's selfish jock ex-boyfriend tries to win her back, and delivering his love letter turns out to be more difficult than he ever imagined. What's interesting about Can't Hardly Wait has little to do with its attractive leads, however. The most engagingly real and entertaining characters are the misfits who show up in the sub-plots, including a geek (Charlie Korsmo) who turns into the life of the party and a pair of old friends (Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose) who confront each other about their mutual needs and insecurities. There are some really good scenes between these two and this modest movie has a few other pleasant surprises up its sleeve. That doesn't make it particularly good but it does make it an agreeable waste of time. --Jeff Shannon

• Easy a / Sydney White / the Ho | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Easy A: In this charming, critically acclaimed tale of rumors and reputation, Olive (Emma Stone), an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates (Amanda Bynes, Aly Michalka) are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher (Thomas Haden Church) and the distracted guidance counselor (Lisa Kudrow). With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents (Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson) and a little help from a long-time crush (Penn Badgley), Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all. Sydney White: Gorgeous freshman Sydney White (Amanda Bynes) has come to Southern Atlantic University to pledge her late mom's once-dignified sorority. But while surviving the pledging process wrought by evil campus witch Rachel (Sara Paxton), Syd finds out this version of sisterhood isn't remotely what it's cracked up to be.Banished to a condemned house on Greek Row, Syd finds her rightful place with a band of seven very socially challenged guys. With the help of one lovestruck frat boy named Tyler (Matt Long), she and the doofs campaign to take over student government. Fighting for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.The House Bunny: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

• OSS 117 - Rio Is Calling | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jean Dujardin returns as suave sophisticated and utterly clueless French spy Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath France's answer to James Bond.The year is 1967 and de Gaulle's France requires OSS 117 to travel to Brazil and track down a former high-ranking Nazi who wants to sell a microfilm of names listing French collaborators during the World War II. In Rio he joins forces with Dolores a charming Mossad agent also on the trail of underground Nazis but with the aim of bringing them to justice. Armed with an arsenal of weapons including classic good looks matchless charm and unrivalled stupidity OSS 117 is the man to call when villains need to be found peace needs to be brokered and women seduced...

• Still Game - Series 2 | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (55.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Old men behaving badly are back for a second series of classic comedy! Jack Victor and their wily old chums once again have us laughing and crying simultaneously with their on the spot poignant observations on the ups and downs of elderly life. Episodes Comprise: 1. Gairden 2. Wummin' 3. Doacters 4. Brief 5. Tappin' 6. Scran 7. Shooglies 8. Buntin' 9. Dug

• The Constant Husband | Blu Ray | (27/07/2020) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Rex Harrison gives a memorably smooth performance as an amnesiac boffin with a singularly dedicated attitude towards matrimony in this classic comedy by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Co-starring Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall and Cecil Parker, The Constant Husband is presented as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. An Englishman wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel bedroom with amnesia. A specialist at the local hospital tells him it was brought on by some kind of upset and they both set out to unearth the patient's past. What they find is shocking - not just to themselves but also to the man's seven wives!

• Whatever It Takes | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £6.65   |  Saving you £-0.66 (-11.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Like most of the male population at Gilmore High Ryan (Shane West) has a serious crush on the beautiful and popular Ashley Grant (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) and he is willing to do whatever it takes to win her over. Ryan's best friend Maggie (Marlo Sokoloff) meanwhile has attracted the attention of Ashley's cousin Chris (James Franco) a babe magnet unused to rejection. Although they have never mixed in the same social circles before the guys join forces and weave an hilarious web of fake e-mails plotted phone calls and contrived double dates in order to get the girls of their dreams in time for the prom. A great teen remake of 'Roxanne' 'Whatever It Takes' shows how mistaken identities can be all part of the fun of falling in love.

• Take Me Home Tonight | Blu Ray | (05/09/2011) from £15.41   |  Saving you £7.57 (60.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One last blowout before reality sets in: it's Labour Day 1988, and although they graduated from high school four years earlier, the kids from the class of '84 get together for a party that will surely (because we're watching a movie about it) settle old scores and kindle new romance. But a little creative improvisation will be necessary for Matt Franklin (Topher Grace, who also co-produced and co-wrote the story), who is wasting his degree from MIT on a summer job at Suncoast Video; he's just told his secret high-school crush (Teresa Palmer) that he works for Goldman Sachs--and she's going to be at the party. Throw in Matt's loud and newly unemployed buddy (Dan Fogler), who has just found a baggie of cocaine in the glove compartment of the car he "borrowed" from his former job, as well as Matt's ambivalent sister (Anna Faris, not quite unleashed enough), and the ingredients are there for an epic night. That's clearly the intention for this movie, and while the ideas are all in place, its grasp of comedy and drama feels generally forced. Forced in its song list, too: all the lumbering behemoths of '80s rock are rolled out, from "Der Kommissar" to Dexy's Midnight Runners. For anybody with a nostalgia jones for the 1980s, there are enough funny bits along the way to justify a look, and the supporting cast has its share of craziness: Chris Pratt as the clueless host of the party, Demetri Martin as a disgruntled classmate, Michael Ian Black as the dream girl's douche-bag boss. And any movie that sets Balls of Fury cutup Fogler on a toot will not lack in energy. But nope, Take Me Home Tonight falls short of the realm of American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused, to which it obviously aspires, and no amount of Wang Chung on the soundtrack is going to hide that. --Robert Horton

• Little Britain - Series 2 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Meet the characters that inhabit 'Little Britain' once again in the second series of the comedy sketch show.

• The Goods - Live Hard, Sell Hard | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (126.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Dan Ready (Jeremy Piven), superstar salesman, is asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, he and his ragtag crew descend on the town of Temecula looking to shake things up!

• Morecambe And Wise - Series 7 | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Including all 12 episodes from Series Seven of the BBC's The Morecambe and Wise Show. Including guest stars Cliff Richard Robert Morley Lulu Susan Hampshire Frank Finlay Roy Castle and Peter Cushing . The BBC series of The Morecambe and Wise Show was one of the most popular television series ever and represented the legendary comic duo at the height of their powers. In their magnificent sketches musical numbers and magical tomfoolery they would captivate an audience of millions and leave a thousand hilarious memories. This 1973 series finds Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise now established as Britain's finest comedy act with great sketches and hilarious scenes from the flat. Even their opening banter delights the audience: I've extended my repertoire says Ernie. Eric pauses before the inevitable reply: It didn't show from back there. This series features some of their most famous musical numbers with Cliff Richard in 'The Fleets in Town' and Roy Castle in 'Side by Side' as well as Peter Cushing returning to claim his fee and more of Ernie's plays including The Curse of Tutankhamen with Robert Morley and The Mighty Kong with Susan Hampshire.

• 48 Hrs. - 80s Collection | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £4.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Return to the disco days of the 1980s in this exclusive collection, featuring ALL NEW ARTWORK that celebrates Generation X's neon dream decade, and the movies that defined it. Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy make one of the most unusual and entertaining teams ever in Walter Hill's roller-coaster thriller, 48 HRS. Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. This unlikely partnership trades laughs as often as punches as both pursue their separate goals: Nolte wants the villains; Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship. Watch for Murphy's hilarious scene in a redneck country-western bar - you'll want to see it again and again. BONUS FEATURES: Theatrical Trailer

• Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Selwyn Froggitt is the kind of man everybody comes across - all too often. The kind of man who thinks he can fix anything. The kind of man who when you see him coming you run for cover. Selwyn's favourite phrase is 'Leave it to me.' Whatever the problem he knows what to do and how to handle it. The trouble is that despite boundless confidence in his own abilities Selwyn really knows very little and can handle even less. But that doesn't stop him... Bill Maynard stars as the council labourer hapless handyman and all-round public nuisance in this classic Yorkshire Television sitcom from the pen of award-winning writer Alan Plater (Beiderbecke). Oh No - It's Selwyn Froggitt boasts a regular supporting cast featuring Bill Dean (Brookside) - who also wrote lyrics for each show's theme song - and Robert Keegan (Z-Cars) and remained a firm favourite with the viewing public throughout its two-year run establishing Bill Maynard as a household name. This release combines the pilot episode screened in 1974 as part of a run of single plays and the complete first series broadcast in 1976.

• Mystics | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dave (Kelly) and Locky (O'Shea) are a couple of old-timers who have found the perfect scam offering solace and peace to the bereaved and an injection of cash to their pockets. Posing as a medium in touch with the other side Dave acts as the front man whilst his partner relays messages from 'beyond the grave'. All is going swimmingly until Larry the kingpin from the local mob gets killed and his wife wants to know where he's hidden his last haul. Unable to refuse a request from

• How I Met Your Mother - Series 1 | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £24.00 (400.67%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A Love Story in Reverse. A love story in reverse: How I Met Your Mother is a fresh new comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lilly (Alyson Hannigan) decide to tie the knot it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping ""wing-man"" Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild schemes for picking up women. Ted's sites are set on the charming and independent Robin (Cobie Smulders) but destiny may have something different in mind. Told through a series of flashbacks Ted recalls his single days the highs and lows of dating and the search for true love. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Purple Giraffe 3. Sweet Taste of Liberty 4. Return of the Shirt 5. Okay Awesome 6. Slutty Pumpkin 7. Matchmaker 8. The Duel 9. Belly Full of Turkey 10. The Pineapple Incident 11. The Limo 12. The Wedding 13. Drumroll Please 14. Zip Zip Zip 15. Game Night 16. Cupcake 17. Life Among the Gorillas 18. Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M. 19. Mary the Paralegal 20. Best Prom Ever 21. Milk 22. Come On

• Watch Your Stern | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £14.86   |  Saving you £-0.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  All hands on deck for Titanic seaside laughs with the saucy Carry On crew! When an accident-prone sailor damages a secret blueprint his only hope is to get another from London. But then the Admiral arrives and he's forced to pose as a scientist - a female scientist!

• Meet The Parents | DVD | (02/07/2006) from £3.85   |  Saving you £12.14 (315.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Randy Newman's opening song, "A Fool in Love", perfectly sets up the scenario of Meet the Parents: "Show me a man who is gentle and kind and I'll show you a loser". Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is the fool in love. Just as he's about to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), he learns that her sister's fiancé asked their father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), for permission to marry. Now he feels the need to do the same thing. When Greg meets Jack, he is so desperate to be liked that he makes up stories and feebly attempts to ingratiate himself with his prospective father-in-law rather than having the courage of his convictions. It doesn't take an elite member of the CIA to see right through Greg, but unfortunately that's precisely what Jack is. Directed by Jay Roach (the Austin Powers films), Meet the Parents is a well-crafted comedy that makes for a pleasant contrast to the sloppy excesses of the Farrelly brothers. Stiller is great at playing up the uncomfortable comedy of errors, balancing just the right amount of selfishness and self-deprecating humour, while De Niro's excels as the intimidating father. Blythe Danner as his wife, the Gracie to De Niro's George Burns, is the true heart of the film and Owen Wilson turns in yet another terrific comic performance as Pam's ex-fiancé. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Rich Hall - The Live Collection | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-9.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Otis Lee Crenshaw & The Black Liars: Rich Hall LiveRich Hall With Special Guest Otis Lee Crenshaw And The Honky Tonk A**holes: Hell No I Aint Happy - Live At The Hammersmith Apollo

• Carry On At Your Convenience | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1971 when Carry On at Your Convenience hit the screen, the series had long since become part of the fabric of British popular entertainment. Never mind the situation, the characters were essentially the same, film after film. The jokes were all as old as the hills, but nobody cared, they were still funny. But it's just too easy to treat them as a job lot of postcard humour and music hall innuendo. This tale of revolt at a sanitary ware factory--Boggs and Son, what else?--certainly chimed in with the state of the nation in the early 1970s when strikes were called at the drop of a hat. Here, tea urns, demarcation and the company's decision to branch out into bidets all wreak havoc. Kenneth Williams as the company's besieged managing director, Sidney James and Joan Sims give their all as usual, but it's the lesser roles that really add some lustre. Hattie Jacques as Sid's budgerigar-obsessed, sluggish put-upon wife and Renee Houston as a superbly domineering battleaxe with a penchant for strip poker remind us that in the hands of fine actors, even the laziest of caricatures becomes a real human being. On the DVD: Presented in 4:3 format with a good clean print and standard mono soundtrack, Carry On at Your Convenience feels as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. But where's the context? The lack of extras leaves the viewer wanting biographies and some documentary sense of the film's position in the series. The scene index is often arbitrary and the budget packaging means that we don't even get a full cast list. --Piers Ford

• Beethoven/Beethoven's 2nd | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Beethoven: A St. Bernard puppy 'adopts' a new home after escaping from dog thieves. The Newton family just haven't realised the trouble that 185lbs of dog can get into... (Dir. Brian Levant 1992) Beethoven's 2nd: Beethoven has fallen in love with the fetching Missy and is ready to settle down with a family of his own. Like it or not George Newton his hapless owner is about to discover the meaning of chaos - times four! Tchaikovsky Chubby Dolly and Mo a quartet of irresistible puppies that have definitely inherited their father's talent for getting into mischief. Trouble ensues when Missy's evil owner Regina heartlessly severs Beethoven from his lady love and plots to steal the pups too. Will Beethoven and the puppies be reunited with Missy? Will Regina get her comeuppance? Will George Newton ever know peace and quiet again? (Dir. Rod Daniel 1993)