Guest House Paradiso
Two spectacularly incompetent hoteliers turn a disastrous British guest house into a radioactive carnival of slapstick, obscenity, and bodily-function gags.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Mild
- crude
- irreverent
- grotesque
- late night comedy marathon
- cult comedy viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film an aggressively crude and uneven gross-out comedy, though some admired its commitment to physical absurdity and praised the Mayall-Edmondson pairing.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The hotel disasters repeatedly center on bodily functions, underwear, radioactive food, and deliberately repulsive sight gags.
Richie and Eddie operate an atrocious guest house whose guests become trapped in worsening service failures and hazards.
Richie and Eddie bicker, fight, and mishandle the hotel while their incompetence compounds the surrounding chaos.
The guest house stands next to a nuclear power plant, and radioactive fish turns the hotel dinner into a mass illness crisis.
Films like Guest House Paradiso, and why
The Young Ones: Summer School
shared crude slapstick, gross-out humor, anarchic duo chemistry, and deliberately offensive comic escalation
Fawlty Towers: The Movie
shared British absurdist comedy, dysfunctional hospitality setting, farce, and escalating humiliation
The Three Stooges
shared physical comedy, grotesque bodily humor, and relentless comic set pieces
Movie Details
- Director
- Adrian Edmondson
- Release Date
- 1999-12-03
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 (155)
Cast
- Rik Mayall
- Adrian Edmondson
- Bill Nighy
- Kate Ashfield
- Steven O'Donnell
- Fenella Fielding
- Vincent Cassel
- Hélène Mahieu
- Simon Pegg
- Lisa Palfrey
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Guest House Paradiso about?
- Two spectacularly incompetent hoteliers turn a disastrous British guest house into a radioactive carnival of slapstick, obscenity, and bodily-function gags.
- What is Guest House Paradiso like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Guest House Paradiso as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Guest House Paradiso violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Guest House Paradiso as mild.
- What did critics think of Guest House Paradiso?
- Critics broadly found the film an aggressively crude and uneven gross-out comedy, though some admired its commitment to physical absurdity and praised the Mayall-Edmondson pairing.
- Which films are like Guest House Paradiso?
- Films with a similar feel include The Young Ones: Summer School, Fawlty Towers: The Movie, and The Three Stooges.
- How long is Guest House Paradiso?
- Guest House Paradiso runs 90 minutes.
- Where can I watch Guest House Paradiso?
- In United States, Guest House Paradiso is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
