Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

FlashCallahan Sgt. Cannon and PC Ball run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman, they accidentally stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two Saturday night light entertainers that your grandad liked to stop them escaping with their haul.......The film is the Choc Ice of British cinema, cheap, barely tasteful, and leaves a horrible aftertaste, but you cannot help but watch for sheer nostalgia reasons.This could have easily been a Saturday evening variety programme, the two comedians based in a police station, being visited by a special guest every episode dressed as something nautical, or as the toe would say 'Naughty-cal'.It's not a very good film, but for pure nostalgia reasons, it entertains in a way that only people of a certain age would understand. Cannon and Ball were a staple in many families viewing in the eighties. They were funny, not at all crude, and everyone loved Bobby Ball because he was the silly one with all the catchphrases.So obviously a cinematic outing for the two was inevitable, as this was a time when TV shows and British comedians were getting big screen releases willy nilly.So the film is nothing more than the two dressed as policeman doing what they do on TV, with a little bit of the plot from 'Ask A Policemen' thrown in for good measure.Many will sniff at the films existence, but then there are a few people like myself who really don't mind watching crass, mindless humour for ninety minutes to forget about the real world.Rock on Tommy indeed.....

James Mitchell I must say i loved this film, my papa taped it for me years ago but sadly the tape got chewed but since then i found it had been released on DVD so i bought it and it reminds me of my papa god rest him so thats worth it's weight in gold to me. i know it has had some stick from some people on here but come on its a slapstick 80s comedy flick from cannon and ball and not to be taken seriously,its a good old fashioned Brit comedy film and yeah of course theirs plot errors but every film has them, tho in my opinion they done a great job on this film considering the budget was very low, go buy the DVD and make up your own minds rather than read comments on IMDb because after all we all have different taste's in movies and this might just be your kind of film.

james_jonathan_turner Cannon and Ball is excellent funny men from time ago. How I laugh at their gurnery. One of them (Ball) went to the jungle and my how me make me laugh whilst watching this old film. He is truly great in the veins of other greats like Albert Stepped toe and Billy Crystal. GThe laughs never stop as policemen pratfalling whilst capturing the bad figures- I love their their sense of justice and vengeance, combined with funny end of your peers laughter. The absolute volume of laughs in this film truly makes me bleed. They are great atists painting funny funny moments. I love the ability they have to turn the bureaucratic work of a policemen into a fun filled antic hunt! The greatest laugh I had was when the jungle man fell down a pothole. That was agreed by all to be their best. How I wish these two had many more films in these veins. I would have gone more if I was born when this film was made. All in all a great buy for family! PS they are robots.

mark monroe The only film made by the UK comedy duo, and like Morecambe & Wise, their films never live up to the comedy they're supposed to!!! However, this low budget british made effort is very good. Based on the classic Will Hay Ask a Policeman film the plot is basically the same, smugglers and two incompetent policemen, namely Cannon and Ball. The laughs are silly and childish, like Carry On... humour but all in all an easy to watch afternoon type movie.