Withnail And I (DVD) Reviews

Withnail and I is my all-time favourite film. I first saw it in the early 90's when I was a student and I have been quoting from it ever since!! Written and directed by Bruce Robinson and made by HandMade Films in 1986, Withnail and I documents the lives of two failed, I mean, resting actors in Camden at the end of the sixties. "The ...  Read the complete review

This is by far the most quateable film on the planet! It was written and directed by Bruce Robinson and is a cult classic! I am sure I've watched this film more than 50 times. The plot is simple. It's 1969, Withnail and Marwood (I) are out of work artsy types. Withnail is "a trained actor, reduced to the status of a bum" due ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I...... I have just watched a film for the first time in months without actually falling asleep and I think this is due to the fact that it was such a great film. Background..... This film was made in 1986 but is set in the late 1960's. It has many famous people the I ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I is a classic film that I recommend everyone to watch and own. It is set in the 1960's in London and the english countryside, and has two actors (Paul McGann and Richard E.Grant) that bounce off each other with such impact that it has created one of the best masterpieces of all time. This film has such intelligence and wit that it is ...  Read the complete review

The film opens on a pan shot around a 1960s flat, whilst an improvised saxophone solo of Whiter Shade Of Pale hauntingly resounds; a solo by King Curtis taken from the album "Live From Fillmore West". Curtis was murdered later that evening in the Fillmore's car park, so this is his last live recording, lending huge poignancy to the film; ...  Read the complete review

Two struggling actors decide to visit the country..... This small British film has become a huge student cult, largely due to the dialogue, continuously and gloriously peppered with classic quotations and comic moments that pour forth in confrontations between characters and with society. It has an excellent script where manic, ...  Read the complete review

I find that this film is something of a liquorice covered donut; you love it or hate it. I find that I am part of a generation that seems to have only about 20% Withnail and I lovers in it, but fortunately I am part of that statistic. Set in a dank depiction of London in 1969, the narrator (played by Paul McGann ...known only as 'I') ...  Read the complete review

This film really does fall into the category of films you simply must see before you die. This is especially true if you are British (as this film quintessentially is) or have ever been so skint you were tempted to drink lighter fluid....so that would be most of Britain at this moment in time! Richard E Grant and Paul McGann play ...  Read the complete review

Withnail And I (1986) is as near to perfect as a film can be. If I could only have three films this would make the grade as one of them. The funniest film ever made. Timeless and as good today as it was when it was made. Oh and the bonus is that its a British film too. Directed by Bruce Robinson (writer of Withnail and also the ...  Read the complete review

A classic British cult comedy. Richard E. Grant is superb as the drunk/drugged-up resentful aspiring actor Withnail, accompanied by Paul McGann as "I", his aspiring writer/actor friend. Richard Griffiths is fantastic as the eccentric, flamboyant homosexual Uncle Monty. Together, Withnail and I make a terrific duo as the ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I is a British film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and released in 1987. It is, by far, one of my all time favourite films and one that for me stands out as a fine example of how good British cinema can really be. **** Plot **** Withnail and I are two out-of-work actors in London in 1969. They ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I is one of my personal fave films of all time! Set in the 60's, but produced in the 80's, follows out-of-work actors 'Withnail' and 'I' from their london flat, to a few days break in 'Uncle Monty's' empty house in the the countryside in Penrith, and back again. What happens along the way ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I is one of my favourite British films. It stars Richard E Grant and Paul McGann as a pair of quick witted desperate struggling actors just trying to make their way in the world. Richard's character, Withnail, is very dominating and Paul (as "I") is in his shadow throughout. The flat the pair share is ...  Read the complete review

With Bruce Robinson directing this masterpiece, at the helm is Richard E. Grant as Withnail, and the neurotic "I" played by Paul McGann, these two housemates think "signing on" is fashionable, the laughs in Withnail and I are continuous. Both are skint, wannabe actors whose best parts to date have been in dodgy ...  Read the complete review

One of the Best British Films your most likely to see!***** Five Stars. A razor-sharp acid tongued 1980's British comedy, Withnail and I is a must-see cult comedy film. It's 1969; the end of what for some was arguably the greatest decade of all time. Just one big Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll party with one problem - 'I' (Paul McGann) ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1987 'Withnail and I' is often regarded as one of the greatest comedies of all time and is probably quoted more often than The Bible. It has even spawned its own drinking game for the strong-willed and weak-brained. Although it is advisable to miss out the lighter fluid! Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann were both given ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to this film by a friend when I asked why he kept shouting 'Scrubbers!' out my car window. The film essentially is about friendship. Based in the late 1960's on the lives of two unemployed actors who, following an amphetamine binge, decide a trip to the countryside would be invigorating. What follows is a hilarious ...  Read the complete review

What can I say; it's my favourite film by a long way. It was brought to my attention by a friend who strongly recommended it. I don't normally laugh out loud at films, but this film had me in stitches. It is the sort of film you watch over and over again, and find it difficult to stop quoting. The film is set in London in the dying ages of ...  Read the complete review

Withnail and I has not only become one of the classic films of underground British cinema, it also launched the careers of two up and coming actors who are today household names. At the time Paul McGann was beginning to get noticed for his work, and was cast in the role of "I ", we never find out the characters name. Along side him the ...  Read the complete review

The first thing to say about Withnail and I is that it's a film of such blinding truth that the human genome project are almost certainly going to find it encoded in the DNA of any human male who has ever been either an actor or a student. I watched the film for the first time this afternoon, and yet I was able to quote along with it on ...  Read the complete review