Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) by Jono M — 01 Feb 2007

Love it. It gets a little preachy at times, but it's weird and funny and Richard E. Grant is brilliant.

This review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) was written by Jono M on 01 Feb 2007.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Xinrui C (21) on 15 Nov 2012

Nice second effort from bruce robinson but not a patch on withnail . its was the boil I tell you the boil…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Spencer F (94) on 14 May 2011

Holy crap, the main character's eyes will give me nightmares more than the boil on his shoulder…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Zhanyi J (167) on 13 Jun 2011

Yeah I know it's a satire and the anti-consumerism message, but by mid-way through the film, I didn't care anymore…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By David L (3,419) on 03 Sep 2010

Thought that I had seen the best from Robinson when I watched withnail and I. I was wrong. This film is fantastic…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Mark N (906) on 10 Mar 2012

Do You Believe Everything You Hear, See or Read…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Travis S (369) on 06 May 2009

Why don't they make comedies like this anymore? Out of all the comedies I have seen, I think this one has the most clever title…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By David K (1,644) on 29 Jun 2011

A tad too preachy but it doesn't lie when you boil right down to it.. Yuk yuk yuk…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Sausages M (143) on 19 Oct 2013

Hmm, it's a tricky one…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Nan-0 (3) on 06 Jul 2008

If ever there was any doubt that Richard E. Grant was one of the greatest actors of our time, this movie obliterates them with his awesomeness…

Read Review

Review of How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)

By Quinto W (289) on 05 Nov 2009

I really want to give this film more than 4 stars, but the ending which feels a bit weak and inconclusive keeps me from doing so…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

By Vincent Canby (762) for Time (1,811) on 07 Mar 2016

The pace sometimes flags, and there are scenes in which the comic potential appears to be lost only because the camera is in the wrong place…

Read Review

Review of What Women Want (2000)

By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 20 Nov 2003

Really, what women want is what all of us want: a decent movie, something vaguely insightful and occasionally funny. This isn't that movie…

Read Review

Review of Scary Movie (2000)

By Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel (195) for 3BlackChicks Review (195) on 01 Jan 2000

The scary part is that this movie got made…

Read Review

Review of Shaun of the Dead (2004)

By Flyingtoadxx (3) on 18 Nov 2011

I am not quite sure how any one person can sit through even ten minutes of a film such as this, let alone watch to whole darn thing…

Read Review

Review of Kate & Leopold (2001)

By Mark F (961) on 19 Jun 2010

Watch this if you like the taste of vomit. Analyzing this film should be an intro Psych assignment…

Read Review

Review of Monster-in-Law (2005)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 15 Nov 2005

It's not hard to imagine the militant Jane Fonda of 1972 angrily denouncing Monster-In-Law as insulting Hollywood claptrap trafficking in regressive,…

Read Review

Review of Eat the Rich (1987)

By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

Eat the Rich looks deceptively haphazard, though keeping this sort of comedy on-target takes discipline, a willingness to throw out a lot of…

Read Review

Review of That Man from Rio (1964)

By Carlos M (2,069) on 24 Dec 2016

It must think that it is so exciting to make Jean-Paul Belmondo run up and down the entire movie, but in fact it is only repetitious, predictable…

Read Review

Review of A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

By Broyax (884) on 03 May 2018

Une comédie vaudevillesque (l'appellation polar serait trop d'honneur) très superficielle et très légère, tellement légère qu'elle s'évapore…

Read Review

Review of Life of Brian (1979)

By Skebf. (1) on 29 Apr 2007

THE worst movie I have ever seen. I faked laughed a lot cause my friend was laughing. The jokes are sooo terrible. I absolutly HATE this movie…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Deadpool 2

2018

76%1,635 Reviews

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

2023

79%186 Reviews

The Voyeurs

2021

58%19 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews