Wence Is Not Enough (Allo Allo!)

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Product:	Allo Allo!
Date:	27/03/01 (59 review reads)
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Advantages: Laugh a minute

Disadvantages: Aching sides

Good old aunty Beeb has produced many comedies and none come better than ‘Allo ‘Allo!

As a parody of life in war torn France during the Second World War, this laugh a minute programme is just as funny the second and even third time around as it was when it first appeared on our screens.

Scripted by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd ‘Allo ‘Allo! has so many funny characters of which none are funnier than the English agent disguised as a French policeman. It was a masterstroke of script writing to have the constable speak in English with a French accent and mispronounce most of his words, thus simulating broken French.

Now listen carefully I shall say this only wence.

The basic story is how a French café owner René Artois played by Gordon Kaye and his wife Edith (Carmen Silvera) try to earn a living in German occupied France whilst the local resistance do their best to send downed RAF pilots back to England. To this end they enlisted Rene’s services much to his chagrin. The plot is further complicated by the French all girl Communist movement who have no love for either the resistance or the Germans but make an exception of René. The café’s two waitresses, Yvette (Vicky Michelle) and Mimi Labong (Sue Hodge), although both madly in love with Rene, also sell their favours under the control of Madam Edith.

Throw in Herr Flick of the Gestapo, his lady friend Helga a German Soldier, Captain Gruber a homosexual who fancies René, and some stolen booty you have a farce worthy of Brian Rix. The whole cast is ably supported by a myriad of equally funny characters who make the half hours shows something to remember and chuckle over in moments of remembrance.

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