I'm All Right Jack

Some very arch bits of satire here, bolstered by a cast of just about everyone who was in these films of the time. Personal note, films get an extra point if Terry Thomas says "Ebbsoluut shhaa-aaah". My score, my rules.

The film starts with silly humor and then moves to dry humor, it didn't connect with me.

Amusing satire of the workplace circa 1959 is a touch tired and wheezy in places (especially in the opening set-up) but hits its stride as it satirises employer-union negotiations, personified in a magnificent, low-key performance by Sellers as the union leader. Perhaps a little too obvious at times, and its supporting characters (Terry-Thomas, Attenborough) are painted with too broad a brush, but still a fascinating relic of its time, which has some echoes to modern times.

"We do not and cannot accept the principal that incompetence justifies dismissal, that is victimization". Could have done without the silly framing device.

A solid and surprisingly timeless take on unions and the struggle between management and workers, "I'm All Right Jack" is funny enough and very meaningful. Peter Sellers steals the show as always.

Has a lot of funny stuff, both overt comedy and dry British wit. The plot is kind of annoying in its distortion of class struggles but I found the rest good enough that I didn't mind too much.

Good show, skewers both management and labor, describes a workplace where only a naive idiot would speak the truth and upset the apple-cart (and be sent to the sanitarium for his troubles). The extent to which skullduggery and venality is portrayed as the norm is a rich source of humor.

The first 25-30 minutes are dumb, but after that it settles into a very good satire of labor relations. I was a bit appalled by the film's attitude toward unions, but I managed to keep my liberal outrage in check, and besides, it's not especially kind to management either. It's not screamingly funny or anything, but it's amusing enough. Just skip the beginning.