Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

WakenPayne There are plenty of sitcoms that I enjoy, from the ones that are formulaic but knows exactly what to do with the formula to the ones that just try anything to see if it works. There are good ones both written by Ben Elton but if I were to say what the best comedies from him are, I'd say it would be definitely Blackadder and The Young Ones (although I personally prefer Bottom) but this just sits around a being somewhat enjoyable if bland.The plot or what there is of one centered around a Police Station. Inspector Raymond Fowler is a... well, he's a bore, being completely by the book, having gifts be boring things and always has some excuse to not have sex with his extremely desperate for it girlfriend, who also works there named Sergeant Patricia Dawkins who wants Raymond to show her some form of affection. There's Officer Habib, the one all the guys are after who doesn't like the attention. There's Officer Goody, who's an idiot with a crush on Habib and their boss basically wants to be an action hero copper or something. There are other characters but I have to move on.As you've plainly seen almost none of the characters are anything funny when written on paper. Okay, maybe a chuckle here and there but nothing really substantially memorable, which is exactly what the show provides, nothing more and nothing less. Okay, maybe for some this might not be their humour and for some this might be the greatest sitcom of all time but in my opinion there is nothing to it and the jokes aren't really that funny. Again, there are chuckles here and there but I don't think it really is anything memorable.If I were to name a complaint with the main players, it would be James Dreyfus. He has literally ONE shtick. He's effeminate. He plays the idiot but while in THIS show he may have a... chuckle-worthy line somewhere in there all he does is act effeminate with the hopes of getting some kind of laugh and in here (or everything I've seen him in) it doesn't and it's also contradictory to his character, I mean if he's going to be stupid I'd rather someone that can act stupid and get a laugh rather then whatever the hell he's doing.That's all I really have to say about the show. It might be worth a look if you literally have nothing else on but it just sits around in being bland when to me it could have been so much more then what it is, especially coming from Ben Elton at the time and Rowan Atkinson at the time.

Bene Cumb Rowan Atkinson is a talented actor and comedian, I can't recall any works with his participation being dull or benighted. Sitcom The Thin Blue Line is another fine example where he and his co-actors fill in witty scripts by Ben Elton. There is no totally positive police character, each and every has odd views/comprehensions, personal problems at home, difficulties with opposite sex etc; for me, Rowan Atkinson as Inspector Raymond Fowler, James Dreyfus as Constable Kevin Goody, Mina Anwar as Constable Maggie Habib, and David Haig as Detective Inspector Derek Grim are the best and funniest (well, one might say at times exaggeration is too intense, bearing in mind that the policemen are depicted), but - as a good and strong sign of British comedies - it is no total buffoonery, but various important topics are handled, such as racism, different minorities, lack of state funding, new types of crimes, role of the police in society - to name a few. And last but not least: you will hear abundant British English, with dozens of words not in daily use.

richard.fuller1 Can't add anything else to what anyone else has said. The show is hilarious. None of the cast fail.The only flaw that I can see is when Mark Addy replaced Kray. I liked Kray better. I had seen so many of these episodes over and over, but clearly there was one or two that I had missed."The Green Eyed Monster" was clearly one of them. I finally managed to see it and I have given myself a headache laughing at Fowler's proposal and Grim's concept of marriage. I have never heard anything like either one of these in American television. Atkinson has been funny before in other episodes, but Haig has been an absolute riot here. I've got a headache from laughing so much. It may be regarded as the lowest of Atkinson's comedies (Blackadder, Bean and Thin Blue Line) but truthfully, I love listening to him deliver his dialogue and he does it more here than he does in the other two, and he displays a grand sense of seriousness at times on this show as well, playing the straight man to the other characters. I suppose Atkinson did that with those two cohorts in Blackadder, but he has to interact with these characters more than he did with those in Blackadder, who were just completely brainless.

j_a_newton Have Blackadder merge with Basil Fawlty and put him in charge of a Dad's Army type of line-up at a police station - and you get The Thin Blue Line. I laugh me 'ead off at the wit of the writing and at the performances of the cast, especially of Rowan Atkinson, a genius of our time, and the rest firmly put in their best role types. But at the end of the day, I can't help thinking that a little more honing of direction and script would have been nice, so as to keep the obvious influences a little less... obvious.For all of his merits, Rowan Atkinson sometimes *does* seem to try to emulate John Cleese/Basil Fawlty in his venom-spitting eloquence just a little too much. And the sitcom stereotype characters are all there, handed down directly from classical comedy: to continue the Fawlty Towers parallel, think Goody/Manuel, Habib/Polly, Dawkins/Sybil (albeit a depressed and oppressed one, rather than being the oppressor), or Grim/Terry the chef - and Cleese & c:o were hardly inventing those stereotypes, either: those of you who know your Molière, for example, will be able to continue the analogy even further. But you could certainly get worse off than that for half an hour of sheer fun at the telly. I wouldn't miss an episode for much else, and for all the obvious influences, they're certainly some of the best available ingredients to mash down the mixer. Ten out of ten for keeping me soundly laughing straight through it all.