I'm All Right Jack
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Movie Reviews of I'm All Right Jack
Movie Review: Wonderful satire of British working world in Fifties
Summary: 5 Stars
When an unemployed Oxford grad takes a blue-collar job in a missile factory, he suggests labor-saving improvements that upset management and enrage labor. Before you know it, the work force goes out on strike and triggers a national showdown.
This is a bright British satire that leaves no stone unturned and has definitely held up over the years. Ian Charmichael plays his usual hapless type, and star turns are generated by Peter Sellers as the verbose labor leader and Terry-Thomas as the boss. The real-life Malcolm Muggeridge plays himself as a TV discussion-panel emcee whose show quickly degenerates into mayhem. Richard Attenborough is also wonderful as the corporate weasel who has his irons in too many fires. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
Movie Review: A hilarious and brilliant satire from the Fifties
Summary: 5 Stars
A rather posh young man(Ian Carmichael) graduates from Oxford University intending to become a Captain of Industry. Owing to his honesty and naievety he does not interview well and ends up as fork lift driver at his uncle's (Denis Price) defense plant. He finds a poweful union boss(Peter Sellers) and a somewhat unscrupulous personnel director(Terry-Thomas) along with some executives (uncle plus Dickie Attenborough) working a shady arms deal with a third world country. Carmichael has a 1950s chaste encounter with the delightful Liz Fraser (Sellers daughter) and inadvertently precipitates a strike and is used by all as a scapegoat to restore labor peace. The movie is a satire and full of fun. Enjoy its hilarity. Dont take it seriously.Movie Review: I can't imagine...
Summary: 5 Stars
...I'm the only one who noticed that, besides the satire about managements, unions, and their relations, there is also one, although briefer nonetheless most interesting, about 'Justice', who decides that if one is guilty of honesty, it can only happen by reason of insanity, and, therefore must be committed. Leaving management going on with their cheating schemes, workers thinking that getting their paycheck is working hard enough, and unions' leaders going on encouraging sabotage, following USSR directions, absolutely blind to the fact that, if doing one tenth of the same stuff in USSR, they would have been -at best- sent to the siberian salt mines used as reeducation camps.Movie Review: Any film that starts out in a Nudist Camp is all right Jack with me...
Summary: 5 Stars
Recently elected into the British Cinema's Top 100 Films, I'm All Right Jack is a delight. I saw it on the big screen in 1960 (produced in 59), I remember being entrhralled by Liz Frasier in a tight sweater and how funny Ian Carmichael and Terry Thomas were and knocked out by Peter Sellers (in his breakout role as shop steward Mr Kite). It still holds up as I watched it again yesterday. It's charming and witty in the best British tradition, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Rutherford and a host of English stars enliven this post war satire about trade unions, commerce and the press in Great Britian. Smashing fun.Movie Review: It's About Time!
Summary: 5 Stars
After waiting for years to see this film again, it is exciting to see that it will soon be available on DVD. This is a wonderful film, a must see for all Peter Sellers fans. His characterizations in this film are unforgettable, as are those of the rest of the cast. Having worked in industry myself for a number of years, including some union environments, I find this satire on target with the sad realities of the workplace, even today. Lovers of the Dilbert comics will appreciate this satirical poke at business outside the office. I recommend this film highly.