John Prescott

Despite what others think, both myself and my wife really enjoyed watching this movie. We just came across it on YouTube, didn't know who was in it and just pressed Play! The story was easy enough to follow from the Civil War right to the end after Hicock became a Marshall - his job was to clean up the town by shooting all the baddies, drunkards, nutters. But surprise surprise he met up with his lovely ex girlfriend from 7 years ago and her young son. She happened to be engaged to the the towns Big Baddy who is a bullying crook. After enforcing new gun force rules there is one last job to complete before waltzing off into the sunset with her. That of course is to settle things with the towns Big Baddie himself who has already tried to bribe the remaining baddies and n'er dowells to kill Hicock. There is quite a lot of slick gunplay, pistol shooting and saloon bar scenes with the usual dodgy characters galore as well as poker playing and people being accused of cheating and growling obscenities at each other which is exactly what you expect in a Western. Very Spag Western we thought but without Clint or Eli! They drag in a few extra characters like a whisky fuelled doctor to remove a bullet from a young lads leg- who had accidentally got in the way of more baddies riding into town shooting the place up on horseback- just for fun- along with one or two other guys just to make up the numbers like a pasty looking Priest who handily turns out to be the undertaker as well! The grand finale was a fight to the death of Hicock versus Big Baddy who tried very hard to throttle the life out of Hicock - and frankly I thought he had succeeded. Anyway Hicock lived another day; handed in his badge to the mayor and rode away to settle down and be with his loved one and young son we presumed. One bit of actual true fact came to light as Hicocks eyesight was failing (or so said the drunk doctor's diagnosis!) Good ole steam train scene snorting and hooting as well! Enjoyable light hearted Western entertainment and not too long either.

I personally think this is my favourite Tom Browns Schooldays movie ( and there are a fair few about) because 80%+ of it is filmed inside Rugby School itself. Fry is excellent as the headmaster Dr Arnold and Tom is the real hero. I was a little surprised though how Tom himself grew up so quickly to become the man to take on the evil Flashman who himself had the headmaster eating out of his hand through his rich parentage. I myself was fortunate or unfortunate enough to attend the school in the 50's and to say Dr Arnold had totally cleaned the place up by then is simply not true, but at least he made a good start. There were many Flashman types in my day there too. So watching the movie does bring back a few unhappy memories even though the original story was supposed to be fiction. It was sad at the end when a newman George Arthur passed away and Tom felt he had not kept a good enough eye on him in his charge. The scenes and acting were very believable and it's a movie worth watching more than once imo.

This show is getting worse and worse. The storyline is -to say the least - hardly in any way realistic or even believable. Whoever thought up this idea of a sink hole in the first place and then having a Halloween party aired when it wasn't Halloween with people in weird masks poncing about and some falling down holes into the sewers below frankly needs a scriptwriters head examined. Couple that with the main baddy somehow with a get out of jail free card escaping from a prison van taking him to some unknown location and accidentally bumping into the Street mechanic looking for his errant wife with the local grocer and his kids all nearly perishing too- certainly stretches the imagination to the utmost bounds of possibilities. Oh and the same baddy ending up in the sink hole and somehow shooting the wrong person. All the relevant characters were trying to be heroes carrying out personal rescues when they should have been calling the emergency services who could easily have saved more lives - it was pathetic to watch tbh. The whole thing simply beggared belief. Couple that with so much bad acting and political correctness - The Street simply doesn't cut it any more for myself and I know many many others too.

Quite an entertaining take on the original Beatrix Potter books characters. Peter Rabbit's voice over as to what appeared to be a cockney gangster I felt was very out of place though- however he came across as a loveable rogue leading his gang of Flopsy bunnies et Al. He managed to do away with poor old Mr Macgregor very early on only to be replaced by a disillusioned Harrods London executive who was left Mr Macgregors house and garden in an uncles Will. This poor guy then moved into the house. Peter and his gang had meanwhile taken over the property whilst vacant and for some unknown reason thought it was their goddam right to live there. The very weak plot basically revolves around the gang trying to get rid of the new owner who actually doesn't want to leave because he's fallen in love with the attractive girl next door who loves wildlife and surprise surprise - rabbits- Peter particularly ! Peter therefore does everything in his power to make the poor man's life an absolute misery because he is very jealous of this newcomer who quite rightly; only wants a bit of peace and quiet and doesn't want his vegetable garden invaded by vermin or his house messed up either. His original idea was to sell it on... Some of the stunts and actions are really entertaining and some actually are quite spectacular. It all ends happily ever after of course but my disappointment was that Peter never actually said he was sorry to the man he gave so much misery to. He did apologise to the girl but not to the house owner who he was happy to trash at every opportunity. That was a lesson they missed for children in my opinion. For those of our older generation this movie is a true eye opener. I think Beatrix Potter would be turning in her grave at the way one of the most endearing of her book characters, namely Peter Rabbit; has been portrayed by this movie. It's certainly a very different and I think far too modern take on him. I also never quite understood quite where Mrs Macgregor had got to ? She was notable by her absence and tbh I was, by the end, quite happy to see the malingering and quite dangerous Peter Rabbit- actually put in her pie!