Mike Bassett: England Manager (DVD) Reviews

Steve Barron is the latest director to try his hand out at a football movie with Mike Bassett England Manager starring Ricky Tomlinson. Tomlinson plays Mike Bassett an unsuccessful football manager given the England job after the previous manager suffers a heart attack. Consequently England start badly under Bassett and the media and ...  Read the complete review

There aren't that many football films around, and even good ones, but Mike Bassett: England Manager is one that stands out for its sheer quality. Ricky Tomlinson is Mike Bassett. A football league manager who gets the big chance to take over the national side, a dream for many and a nightmare for even more. A true patriot, he believes ...  Read the complete review

Mike Bassett England Manager - what a film! I found this film hilariously funny and have watched it on DVD loads of times, it's got to the point now where I know the lines before they are even spoken, but I love it. It is basically a documentary following the manager of division one Norwich City's manager Mike Bassett - who having led ...  Read the complete review

This is one of those British films which promised quite a lot but failed to quite achieve the levels of other football films such as Bend it Like Beckham and Gregory’s’ Girl. Star of the film is Ricky Tomlinson who managed to drag himself off the Royle Family couch to play the role of Mike Bassett the relatively unknown manager of ...  Read the complete review

Today I decided to watch my Mike Bassett England Manager DVD, this always makes me laugh even though I’ve seen it loads of times. The film stars loads of famous faces, which include Ricky Tomlinson, from The Royle Family, he plays Mike Bassett, Amanda Redman who plays Mikes wife, and comedian Bradley Walsh who plays the team coach. ...  Read the complete review

Graham Taylor was one of the worst appointments of all time as England manager. After making his name as a bright young manager who relied on route one football with Lincoln City and Watford, he secured the job as Aston Villa boss and made them a decent first division outfit. He did enough in that job to convince the powers at be at the Football ...  Read the complete review

"I know what is round the corner, I just don't know where the corner is" - Kevin Keegan, England Manager. The job of manager of the England football team has always been one of the most eternally thankless tasks in the world - you may be in the biggest job there is in your profession in your home nation, but you are the most ...  Read the complete review

Acclaimed as incredibly funny and using a very similar technique to BBC?s award winning sitcom ?The Office? I wasn?t that apprehensive about Mike Bassett: England Manager. Yet I got a brilliant idea with great scope somehow ruined by what can only be described as a short film. The concept is excellent especially to football fans, the comedy was ...  Read the complete review

This ones never going to be the sort of film that appeals to everyone. It did to my wife and I. That could be because we both like football. It could be because we usually like English comedies. It could be because Ricky Tomlinson (Mike Bassett) is a really funny guy. But its not going to for everyone. The film itself centers on the ...  Read the complete review

What do you mean the 'Best British Comedy Since Bridget Jones'????????!!!!! Mike Bassett England Manager is much better!!! OK I can see from other ops my view on this film is not shared with great optimism, but 1 star??? How can you say that! The film is basically set out as a documentary about new England Manager, Mike ...  Read the complete review

i'm scottish and thought it was great - Advantages: very funny - Disadvantages: none

To borrow a quote from the bard Wiliam Shakespeare - “Some are born Great. Some achieve Greatness and some have Greatness thrust upon them”. Well it’s the latter for Mike Bassett, humble Manager of First Division Norwich City who answers his country’s call to take over as England Manager. Because the current Boss ...  Read the complete review

I like football, I watch football, attend matches, am even a season ticket holder and frankly if there is anything vaguely football related on, I’ll watch it, so logically you would think that this film would be high on my “must get that for DVD” list. Well you couldn’t be more wrong. This film was ...  Read the complete review

Mike Bassett England Manager is classic Ricky Tomlinson - if your nan is easily offended then leave her at home! The film was easy going, enjoyable, fun, with the typical story of 'its all over: it is now' are they going to win or arent they - and of course you know the answer - after all we've heard it all before supporting ...  Read the complete review

After seeing all the trailers and TV spots we decided to catch a late showing of ‘Mike Basset: England Manager’ on Saturday. The trailers looked promising enough and I enjoy both comedy films and football – surely I couldn’t go wrong? There have been quite a few ‘comedy’ football films released, we all ...  Read the complete review

Mike Bassett: England Manager is a top film, even my Dad would have laughed at it (he's generally a very quiet man). Yes, there is a lot of swearing, but if you aren't too easily offended you should be laughing your head off in the first 5 mins. Basically, the England manager becomes ill and the FA have to look for a ...  Read the complete review

From the director of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and Coneheads comes Mike Bassett: England Manager! Okay that bit of blurb wouldn't be on any poster but it's the truth. I'm not a huge football fan, I watch it occasionally on TV but not religiously, I can take it or leave it. Your level of appreciation on football will have a strong ...  Read the complete review

Mike Bassett : England Manager, has to be the worst film I have seen this year... to put it in one word it was boring! I went to see this film for 2 main reasons - the first is that all the trailers I saw for the film made it look like it was going to be funny, and secondly it starred Ricky Tomlinson (of Royle Family Fame as Jim Royle) ...  Read the complete review

Films about sport are rubbish. Or rather, films focused on the sporting achievement itself instead of using it as a background for something more meaningful (á la 'Field of Dreams') are rubbish because the whole reason why we enjoy sport - it has no preordained outcome and therefore anything amazing that happens is down purely to skill or ...  Read the complete review