This mild comedy set in 1917 Wales is much in the mould established by Ealing Studios and its rivals in the early Fifties: gentle stuff in which the wily locals invariably outwitted the city gents who had come to do something dastardly to the local environment. Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice are map makers come to measure a village landmark, to declare it either to be a mountain (over 1000 feet) or a hill. When the incline is found to be 984 feet high, the villagers are up in arms and decide to elevate it to mountainhood by piling earth on to its summit. Even the fire-breathing vicar (Kenneth Griffith) allows them to work on Sunday in an attempt to finish the task. There are some amusing moments here, but too many leisurely ones as well, even if it's great to find a Welsh-set film these days that isn't all gloom and doom. Grant is very much Grant, while Tara Fitzgerald is quite charming as the love interest and sports a splendidly natural-sounding Welsh accent. Most of the rest of the acting is on the theatrical side.

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