Advantages: Great food, good service, location Disadvantages: Service a little too over the top and food a little cold
was perfect.
THE HOTEL:
We didn?t stay in the French Horn but just to alert you to the fact that you can stay there. From the website it looks like the rooms are beautifully decorated. They range in price from £160 - £215 per night for two. This includes full English breakfast. Pricey then but I would think worth it for a special night.
THE EXPERIENCE:
We sat outside on the terrace to start off with, where we had champagne. The restaurant has quite a few outside tables so you can really enjoy the setting. It was really lovely to sip champagne looking over the river (yes, I could get used to this life!).
Inside the restaurant is decorated quite traditionally. As you walk in there is an open fire which you can sit around in the winter and which is also used for rotisserie chickens!
The staff were pretty good ...
Advantages: Some funny moments. Disadvantages: Not enough funny moments because of the sloppy writing.
of the struggle to tie up all the loose ends so everyone can get their happy ending. The gag ratio isn't high enough; there simply aren't enough jokes to fill the running time and what few there are tend to be rather obvious attempts at slapstick. There's no character comedy to speak of, unless you count references to Santa's comfort eating.
The relationship between the two central characters is well-developed, opening the film with a childhood flashback. But this is at the expense of the other players, who are left short of anything to do and in some cases, even a personality. Clyde Nortchut is a standard family movie villain, Santa's wife Annette the usual waspish wife, the boys' parents are little more than glorified extras and Willie the elf is a plot device to show that Fred is really a good guy. The dialogue has its moments, usually when Fred ...
afy9mab 29.12.2007
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Advantages: Great funny film. Disadvantages: Not suitable for under 10's
Nick did was perfect.
As he grew older, Nick?s generosity continued and eventually became a saint and ? as we had expected became known as Santa Claus.
We were told that as a saint Nicholas and all his family stayed as they where and so as we?re brought into the 21st century Fred Claus was alive, well and a dubious character living in Chicago.
When Fred?s dubious lifestyle leads him to phoning the North Pole to get help and money from his little brother, he is forced to go to the North Pole to help Santa, leaving his British girl friend, Wanda, behind.
Fred?s arrival at the North Pole coincides with the visit of an efficiency expert that ?the board? have sent to justify the whole concept of Santa Claus. The official, Clyde, had the authority to shut down the North Pole and fire Santa!!
Just how does Fred fit into the life style ...
seanbond87 11.12.2009
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Product Information for "Funky Good Time/Live (Pee Wee Fred & Maceo) - JB Horns (The)" »
Product details
Title
Funky Good Time/Live (Pee Wee Fred & Maceo)
Performer
JB Horns (The)
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
R&B Instrumental
Release Date
09/1995
Original Release Year
1993
Label / Distributor
Gramavision / ADA/Cinram Logistics
Guest Artist(s)
JB Horns
Producer
Kenny Inaoka; Jim Payne
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Live
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
798387948526
Catalogue Number
GCD 79485
Additional notes
Album Notes
The JB Horns: Maceo Parker (alto saxophone, background vocals); Pee Wee Ellis (tenor saxophone, background vocals); Fred Wesley (trombone, background vocals); Allan Jaffe (electric guitar); Mark Hellas (electric bass); Jim Payne (drums). Recorded live at Club Gio on June 11, 1990. All songs written or co-written by members of The JB Horns. "Funky Good Time" and "Soul Power" co-written with James Brown.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Sweet & Tangy
2.
Blues A La LS.
3.
House Party
4.
Children's World
5.
In My Neighborhood
6.
Funky Good Time
7.
Step On Your Watch (part 2)
8.
Soul Power
9.
Let Him Out
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