How To Get Ahead In Advertising on DVD (1989)

Hilarious

A customer from Buckinghamshire, UK , 30/09/2005

Ummm, the current radio times review is for a totally different film (The Career Where Two Heads Are Better Than One). If they have since updated it, obviously ignore this bit!!

How to get ahead....is hilarious with a capital HILAR.....it points out all the inconsistencies and bull**** which make up the advertising industry. Check out the scene on the train where R.E Grant talks about how the heroin in the newspaper report 'could have been a pork pie'...CLASSIC!!

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Clever but dated

A customer from bedfordshire , 22/03/2006

Unusual sometimes funny and great performance by Grant. He even manages to look like Gollam in one scene or should it be the other way round. The humour is spicy, sharp. The whole thing is very much of its late 80's Britain era in the days when Thatcher was still on the throne and so some of the storyline and gaffs have become a little jaded and hackneyed.Nevertheless worth a watch and something different

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Like finding an unexpected Fiver in a discarded coat pocket.

jellypocket from Warrington , 03/09/2006

This really isn't the type of film I would usually watch, but it came free with a 'Sunday. I only watched it because the hubby was engrossed in the Hitler channel (History channel to the uninitiated) Having nothing better to watch due to having left 3 DVDs un posted for days I settled down to watch it in bed, anticipating boredom. However, it was hilarious. Hubby rushed up the stairs fearing apoplexy. The bit about his granddad and the wallaby will cheer me up in many a future bored moment. Give it a try.

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Cracking good humour

A customer from London , 20/03/2007

A very funny satire on the advertising industry, and also manages to take off as one of the keerr-aziest films I've seen, with the whole talking boil plot taking Denis Dimbleby Bagley into the depths of insanity. Grant is hilarious, and although the film is a bit talky and extremely 80s, I'd still recommend it to anyone.

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Clever but dated

A customer from bedfordshire , 22/03/2006

Unusual sometimes funny and great performance by Grant. He even manages to look like Gollam in one scene or should it be the other way round. The humour is spicy, sharp. The whole thing is very much of its late 80's Britain era in the days when Thatcher was still on the throne and so some of the storyline and gaffs have become a little jaded and hackneyed.Nevertheless worth a watch and something different

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Like finding an unexpected Fiver in a discarded coat pocket.

jellypocket from Warrington , 03/09/2006

This really isn't the type of film I would usually watch, but it came free with a 'Sunday. I only watched it because the hubby was engrossed in the Hitler channel (History channel to the uninitiated) Having nothing better to watch due to having left 3 DVDs un posted for days I settled down to watch it in bed, anticipating boredom. However, it was hilarious. Hubby rushed up the stairs fearing apoplexy. The bit about his granddad and the wallaby will cheer me up in many a future bored moment. Give it a try.

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