warlock-39 This Little piece of humour history will have you rolling about the floor laughing your head off - oops - perhaps not quite the right choice of words but.....If you want something original that isn't the same old tired plot line, with fresh actors and actresses who deliver their lines with sheer delight - then this is for you - Be different - take a chance - you wont regret it!!! I think that so many of the new films are all taking the "safe" way forward, and I cant blame them, but taking a real risk on a totally different idea shows conviction and courage - and I feel that the whole team that worked on this deserve credit as I'm sure you will too!!!! Regards Dave

gargoylejah At this this film was TRYING to be funny! OK, OK so it isn't a masterpiece of comedic cinematography...but, as an archaeologist, there were some rather chucklicious moments! The warrior-sister's moral conundrum (how can she go back to slaughtering people and chopping off their heads after she's had children?!) was brilliant...especially with the advice from the Pictish couple (complete with tattoos and severed heads around their necks!).The film actually surpassed the great, lumbering fiasco Gladiator and Troy in its accuracy of the costume, settlements, etc. Heck, they even got the British Iron Age Tribal names right! It helped that most of the Celtic scenes were filmed at Butser Ancient Farm. The only really serious faux pas in that arena were the Roman legionaries' equipment...jeeez, if they really borrowed props from Gladiator, you would have thought they could have scored a few accurate suits of armour! That said, I thought the depiction of the smarmy, effeminate Romans was excellent! You could almost HEAR Eddie Izzard lilting "Helloooo.....we are the Romans! Yes, we are!" Bottom line...don't go into this film expecting to laugh your arse off...but it is worthy of a few grins and snickers.

1of7 I know there are others who have found enjoyment in this film, but personally I cannot remember having seen before a film so devoid of ANY redeeming features. Having rented this film from the local video store I found myself wanting not only my money but also my TIME back. TV humour does not always benefit from the transition from TV to the Big Screen. But having regularly watched and been a fan of Smack the Pony I was expecting a comedy of merit. What I find difficult to understand is how the team that produced Smack the Pony (and were also behind excellent 'Green Wing', which I consider to be the funniest/brilliant programs for many a long while) could also produce this sorry film. It was vaguely reminiscent of a Carry On film but was far worse than the worst of any of them and the 'lets sit round dinner and have a farting competition' scene was a direct steal from 'Blazing Saddles'. The simple fact is that the plot made no sense and it was simply not funny. The title was the Gladiatress yet none of the sisters become one (they were simply put into the arena to be killed, that is NOT a Gladiator). Please, please, please don't see this film, it will only encourage them and it might give them enough money to make a sequel.

Svante Börjesson Not brilliant, but definitely worth watching. British humor at it's almost best and a very feminine type of humor to, in the great tradition of Absolutely Faboulous and Bridget Jones. Girl Power comedy. I think it's wonderful that we have come that far that women can be portrayed as pathetic and miserable but still sympathetic, as they are in movies like Gladiatress and Bridget Jones Diaries. It's womens turn to be allowed to be ridiculous - a domain which has been strictly male dominated until recently.Above all I like that the movie show how superior, in practically everything, except for farting, the Romans were. They were cleaner, ate better, behaved better and above all, they locked better. "What have the Romans ever given to us" - Life of Brian. British men don't get much credit in this one. The movies heretical mixture of past and present also makes it one of those few really good comedies that doesn't take itself too seriously without becoming just silly and boring.