The Knack And How To Get It (DVD, 2004)

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by timmsrobert12 May, 2023Most favourable review

Please watch this

I thought this is a very very entertaining film.Very creative and funny and interesting.I read that it appears dated (rotten tomatoes) but films of the London sixties feel so alive and positive.I sense a 'woke' reaction against the ending when Rita Tushingham shouts Rape at the various men.Stop and think about, the ending is a lot deeper than a scared critic defensive response.Ricgard Lester has produced a gem here.
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by lavelle9910 May, 2016Most critical review

So.... BAD... after all these years..

Oh dear.... I loved this film in the sixties, as an impressionable teen, living in what are now the London suburbs - when London was supposedly swinging, and I lapped up the myth, the fab music... the fabulous "dolly birds" all over the press, and those cool photographers (how I wanted to be David Bailey.. or David Hemmings in Blow Up...) Far too young to actually experience this things first hand, though, so enjoyed in vicarious experiences through films like this.

But, now, as someone who spent most of his adult life since in TV production, I look at this with utter disappointed dismay. It's all so BAD - the laboured visual jokes, the badly synched comments from the street bystanders... just so badly done. Sure, we've all matured a lot in the last fifty years (and how depressing to note all those years passed..), and we've become film-sophisticated by so much TV, film, and ad production since... but, really, film could actually be outstanding then too, as we know. There had been plenty of great film-making long before Richard Lester made this, and Hard Days Night (actually much bettter than this...) - but I think he got away with murder in this (and to think it was a Cannes Winner!)

So... as a reminder of some of the worst of sixties film-making, it's passable... As a "good" film.... sadly not....Read full review

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by mrtumpy14 Nov, 2017

Aaah! Sweet memories!

So wonderful to see this flick again after all these years. You have to be of a certain age I suppose. I assume it's not been on TV of late due to the 'rape' scenes. Probably wouldn't be considered very PC these days. Great fun though - I loved it.
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by denosb415408 Sep, 2023