I recently watched the show, movie, and "special" one offs for this show. The show is great, and this film is worth watching. Most of the cast other than Howerd was recast. They were mostly ok, but I missed the people from the show overall. As with many movie versions of Brit shows from back in the day they rehashed a lot of identical jokes from the show, and since I'd just watched the show they fell a little flatter than they probably would have with more time in between.
It felt like something was missing sometimes too... Oh, the laugh track! People don't really do those in movies, but I think it actually detracted somehow from the movie as funny as that sounds. The movie also has outright nudity, which is fine by me, but some might not be happy about.
All in all it's still funny and worth watching, but didn't get me quite as good as the show. I'd recommend not watching them all back to back though, space it out some for better effect!
It felt like something was missing sometimes too... Oh, the laugh track! People don't really do those in movies, but I think it actually detracted somehow from the movie as funny as that sounds. The movie also has outright nudity, which is fine by me, but some might not be happy about.
All in all it's still funny and worth watching, but didn't get me quite as good as the show. I'd recommend not watching them all back to back though, space it out some for better effect!