Post by Nick on Aug 20, 2004 11:46:52 GMT
I love Nuns On The Run.
A few years ago, during a conversation about our most bestest favouritest films ever, I mentioned this film and at least three other people started laughing. I was mystified. Bastards.
Anyway, it's fantastic. Many reasons why:
Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle! One fat, one thin! Wearing bras and make-up! They're like French and Saunders, but nuns! Except they're not really nuns at all! But, wait! They're in a convent, and they're dressed like nuns! Clearly, something crazy's going on. See, already the labyrinthine plot twists have you hooked.
Grumpy old reception desk nun! Fat old alcoholic gambling-addicted nun! Some other nuns! Aww, nuns are great.
Faith being called 'Faith'! Because, y'know, faith, as in religion, as in hope, and it's all so much deeper than you think, of course, isn't it? And she's got really bad eyesight, and keeps walking into things / getting shot and not realising / falling over! And she was played by the woman who John Goodman fell for in King Ralph, so that's nice for her. I've forgotten what she's called. But she gets the best leading men to grind against. And nuns!
Jokes about Catholicism! But not too many, because tits and girls showering and women's underwear are funnier, apparently.
Shakespears Sister's first album playing in the background when they're at the convent-school-party thing. Sacred Heart! Because, y'know, religion, and stuff! And Shakespears Sister were two women! Just like Charlie and Brian / Robbie and Eric! Except they're not really women, remember? They're men dressed as women! And not even women - nuns!
"Get out of the bloody way!" Because it's always funny when nuns swear / blaspheme, isn't it?
One of the gangsters accidentally saying 'fuckers' to the proper nuns at one point, even though Channel 4 always seem to edit it out, bafflingly. Still, 'fuckers'! To nuns! You just wouldn't, would you? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Lots of running around the hospital at the end! Everyone loves gangsters / nuns / gangsters dressed as nuns / nurses / gangsters dressed as nurses / policemen running around hospitals, don't they? Yes, they do.
The nuns getting half a million pounds at the end, and not giving it back!
The whole story takes place over about two days, but it seems like forever, in a hilarious 'oh, they've wrung so many hilarious situations from the whole 'two men pretending to be nuns' thing that the story must have covered at least a week so far! Lordy, how finely structured it is!' way.
It ends with a plane taking off, and the main characters escaping to start a new life halfway across the world with a load of stolen money, just like at the end of A Fish Called Wanda. The moral of the stories is theft + plane + former Python = happiness. And listen! They're playing Yello again! Grrr, we get the fucking point.
It's not actually that funny at all. And yet it really, really is. Look, men pretending to be nuns! Even though nuns are always women! It's the ultimate disguise!
So, yes, I love Nuns On The Run. Stop looking at me like that.
A few years ago, during a conversation about our most bestest favouritest films ever, I mentioned this film and at least three other people started laughing. I was mystified. Bastards.
Anyway, it's fantastic. Many reasons why:
Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle! One fat, one thin! Wearing bras and make-up! They're like French and Saunders, but nuns! Except they're not really nuns at all! But, wait! They're in a convent, and they're dressed like nuns! Clearly, something crazy's going on. See, already the labyrinthine plot twists have you hooked.
Grumpy old reception desk nun! Fat old alcoholic gambling-addicted nun! Some other nuns! Aww, nuns are great.
Faith being called 'Faith'! Because, y'know, faith, as in religion, as in hope, and it's all so much deeper than you think, of course, isn't it? And she's got really bad eyesight, and keeps walking into things / getting shot and not realising / falling over! And she was played by the woman who John Goodman fell for in King Ralph, so that's nice for her. I've forgotten what she's called. But she gets the best leading men to grind against. And nuns!
Jokes about Catholicism! But not too many, because tits and girls showering and women's underwear are funnier, apparently.
Shakespears Sister's first album playing in the background when they're at the convent-school-party thing. Sacred Heart! Because, y'know, religion, and stuff! And Shakespears Sister were two women! Just like Charlie and Brian / Robbie and Eric! Except they're not really women, remember? They're men dressed as women! And not even women - nuns!
"Get out of the bloody way!" Because it's always funny when nuns swear / blaspheme, isn't it?
One of the gangsters accidentally saying 'fuckers' to the proper nuns at one point, even though Channel 4 always seem to edit it out, bafflingly. Still, 'fuckers'! To nuns! You just wouldn't, would you? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Lots of running around the hospital at the end! Everyone loves gangsters / nuns / gangsters dressed as nuns / nurses / gangsters dressed as nurses / policemen running around hospitals, don't they? Yes, they do.
The nuns getting half a million pounds at the end, and not giving it back!
The whole story takes place over about two days, but it seems like forever, in a hilarious 'oh, they've wrung so many hilarious situations from the whole 'two men pretending to be nuns' thing that the story must have covered at least a week so far! Lordy, how finely structured it is!' way.
It ends with a plane taking off, and the main characters escaping to start a new life halfway across the world with a load of stolen money, just like at the end of A Fish Called Wanda. The moral of the stories is theft + plane + former Python = happiness. And listen! They're playing Yello again! Grrr, we get the fucking point.
It's not actually that funny at all. And yet it really, really is. Look, men pretending to be nuns! Even though nuns are always women! It's the ultimate disguise!
So, yes, I love Nuns On The Run. Stop looking at me like that.
