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said, "What might have achieved a degree of cult status across the pond when it was aired in 10-minute installments, struggles to pass big-screen scrutiny in a feature-length treatment that hinges on the flimsiest of plot lines." One reviewer said, "Two people walked out of the screening in the first
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gave it three stars and said "It's wildly uneven and very broad, but there are some laughs in Peter
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Channel 4 in 1988. Several British newspapers found that the script was being considered, generating anger amongst the Catholic establishment and after some unfavourable press attention Channel 4 scrapped the project. Shortly after this Richardson moved
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gave the film a lukewarm review and said "The punk jaggedness they bring to their derivations is the only hint of originality, but this, too, seems a little staid. It feels like punk on the downward swing, after most of its rude energy has dissipated."
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to the BBC and produced two episodes based on the original trilogy screenplay, although they were much changed. He reworked the remainder of the story and again with backing from Film4 used elements of it to write the 1991 film
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was written with
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satirists; in trying to mock bad films, he's simply made a bad film." The film grossed £148,326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK The same year
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British television comedy throughout the 1980s as the driving force behind
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was doing on records, which was being funny but using music as well.". Around this time
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grant to take it on tour. Despite the critical acclaim, at the end of the tour
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youth and entertainment commissioning editor to propose a series of Comic Strip films for the channel. Bolland agreed to his proposal, his first commission for the station and
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thought it "Manages to sustain its single-joke premise... over feature length." The film opened in 10 screens in the USA and took $ 2,574 on the opening weekend.
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period". In January 1988 the film was one of several attacked in the
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Richardson ran into controversy with a proposed three part
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was more favourable and drew comparisons to "an upscale
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1302:. London: Omnibus Press. p. 98.
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1681:. 4 September 1988. Archived from
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555:. The Outer Limits were hired by
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