Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977)

I have seen all of the original series (1972), but if this is the best they can do 5 years later, I dread seeing the follow-up series Are You Being Served? Again (1992). I enjoyed the original series well enough (3 stars); even though it was campy and used hackneyed double-entendres about the poof's "drawers" and Mrs. Slocum's "pussy," the entire ensemble of actors knew it and really milked their roles. It is classic run-of-the-mill British comedy -- dry and silly. We see flashes of that campy genius in this movie, but instead it is the silliness of the script that ends up milking the actors of their comedy. This company vacation story devolves into a flurry of misdelivered sex notes, musical tents, and a subversive shootout led by a commando who colluded with the hotel manager to rape one or more of the employees. Your only reason (just barely) to see this is out of nostalgia for the original series. Enjoy! 2.5 stars. (9-11-2017)