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gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "Robin Askwith abandons his window-cleaning round to help organise a tour for a band of no-hopers and finds himself knee-deep in groupies (the finale at the Palladium has to be seen to be believed). Askwith struggles with a dismal script and comes off much better
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Sidney overhears a band in his local pub and aspires to be their manager, not so ably assisted by his brother-in-law, Timmy, both still window cleaning for a living. They rename the band Kipper and after a misfortune, Timmy joins the line-up and many sexual encounters follow as a result.
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said "Creaky gags, overly familiar slapstick routines, sniggering innuendo, grimly leaden mugging and a nervously regular injection of titillating sequences on the lines of the average German sex comedy: the follow-up to the huge box-office success of
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series (now well into middle age) with the ethos of the working class anti-heroes that emerged in the early Sixties: Sidney James has found his younger alter ego in the charmless Robin Askwith, a kind of callow
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is everything one has come to dread in British comedy. With hindsight, there seems to be a certain inevitability about this crossing of the
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Unfortunately, Timmy's natural talent is more mayhem than rock star and disaster ensues of mostly the semi-clothed kind.
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series and continues the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea, based on the
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characters. In this light, the trundling out of the gorilla suit from
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seems to be a particularly cynical nail driven into the coffin."
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was the only film in the series to spawn a soundtrack album (
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Films with screenplays by Christopher Wood (writer)
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Norman Cohen
Christopher Wood
Greg Smith
Michael Klinger
Robin Askwith
Antony Booth
Alan Hume
Geoffrey Foot
Columbia Pictures
Columbia
Warner Distributors
sex-farce
Norman Cohen
Robin Askwith
Christopher Wood
Robin Askwith
Antony Booth
Bill Maynard
Doris Hare
Sheila White
Carol Hawkins
Peter Cleall
Bob Todd
Peter Jones
Jill Gascoine
David Hamilton
Linda Regan
Diane Langton
Bill Pertwee

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