One of those very funny-sounding ideas, complete with echoes of every classic comedy from Kind Hearts and Coronets to A Fish Called Wanda, that gets crushed in the telling. The film's aim is clearly the international market, but unfortunately that's also its undoing, clumsily presenting British stereotypes for American audiences in the same way that proved the downfall of the second half of 3 Men and a Little Lady. A marvellous cast, including Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, John Cleese, Barbara Hershey, Sadie Frost, Catherine Zeta Jones and Eric Sykes, seem to realise the ship is sinking from total lack of wit and subtlety, and mug madly to embarrassing effect. Idle has only himself to blame for the feeble script and its reliance on crude slapstick: he wrote it.