Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Paul Evans It's so hard not to get nostalgic about Last of the Summer Wine, it conjures up Sunday evenings with my Gran, ham sandwiches, coconut macaroons, just a wonderfully warm, comforting feeling.People argue the show isn't full of laughs, I disagree it was fun to watch with all the family. Wonderful characters one and all, from the original line up of regulars , Compo, Cleggy and Blamire, through Foggy, Truly etc. To the wonderful characters we'd come to love, Nora Batty, Ivy, Howard and Marina, Edie, Auntie Wainwright, Smiler etc, the wonderful Eli!!The golden era for me would always be the trio of Compo, Cleggy and Foggy, the trio worked beautifully well together, complementing one another so well.The Christmas specials were always an extra special treat. Merry Christmas, Father Christmas is just brilliant.No surprises that it ran as long as it did, it had scarily high viewing figures in its prime. I was gutted it ended when it did, but all good things must come to an end.A shining gem, 9/10

de_niro_2001 Last of the Summer Wine has entered the record books as the world's longest running sitcom and it has a fan base which comes out with sweeping statements like "it's well worth the licence fee". But what is so great about it. The subject matter isn't exactly uplifting or glamorous, namely a group of elderly people in a not very exciting Yorkshire small town harping on about the past and idling their time away doing pointless things. Maybe being Scottish a lot of the humour is wasted on me but it strikes me that the audience just laughs at anything. Every move each character makes is accompanied by slightly contrived sounding laughter. On the other hand let's not forget this programme started in the 1970s, the days when TV studio audiences did indeed just laugh at anything and the studio audience of Last of the Summer Wine is probably composed of people who have been loyal fans since it started. But what is so side-splittingly funny about things like a car driving over a grass verge? The constant mouth organ music which rather pretentiously changes to an appropriate tune for each scene is rather annoying. Peter Sallis is the last surviving member of the original cast and it seems to me that Last of the Summer Wine has featured every actor or actress of pensionable age from the north of England. It also seems to be where yesterday's sitcom stars are put out to grass. For several years now it has featured Blakey from On The Buses (you wonder at what point Smiler is going to say "I 'ate you Simmonite"), Captain Peacock (like Blakey/Smiler minus his trademark moustache)and George from George and Mildred (still with moustache albeit rather greyer). Burt Kwouk is also now surprisingly a member of the cast. Alistair McGowan should do a Last of the Summer Wine sketch which has Entwhistle pouncing on the characters like Cato in the Pink Panther films. Just imagine Alistair McGowan as Truly and Ronni Ancona as Auntie Wainwright (and Ronni could work in a few Coronation Street references). Burt Kwouk seems quite fond of his role as Cato and I'm sure he'd be willing to appear in a sketch where Entwhistle turns into Cato.

Mark Hone Like many people I occasionally turn on the TV on a Sunday evening and come face to face with Last of the Summer Wine. With a shock I realise that I am not watching an episode from years ago but part of a new series of the show. Not that it makes much difference because all episodes of the programme are essentially identical. The writer Roy Clarke deserves some sort of award for endlessly recycling the same material and persuading the BBC to film it. He did a good job of this on 'Open all Hours' with Ronnie Barker , which ran for a few series but he's been doing it with LOTSW for 32 incredible years. The show now provides a cosy pension for much-loved British character actors like Jean Alexander and (incredibly) Burt Kwouk, Kato in the 'Pink Panther' films. Of course nearly all the original cast are dead and many of their replacements too. I always felt that Sunday evenings were morbid but there is no better reminder of mortality than the sight of Bill 'Compo' Owen's son, who I remember as a juvenile lead in a kids' TV show 'Freewheelers', appearing in the show as an old man himself.

Bob Barnett Simply put, this show has been my favorite discovery of late and I am definitely going to try and purchase each and every one of the episodes and specials if possible.It has really not been done justice by the other comment here. I am absolutely in love with this show.I had no idea it has been around as long as it has. Apparently the longest running show in England and possibly most anywhere. With good reason as you will see if you watch a couple of episodes.These gentlemen trying to recapture their youth are so funny and endearing