BFI London Film Festival premiere
12 external reviews at imdb. This one not included.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/stan-ollie-review-1153668
"Genial" is the word for Stan & Ollie. Even though they remained household names for years after their heyday due to TV reruns of their many comedy hits, Laurel & Hardy are no doubt little-known to millennials. But the lovely performances by Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly should lure a decent number of fans to this warm account of the team's final live performance tours through the British Isles in the early 1950s, thereby likely sparking a degree of renewed interest in one of Hollywood's most successful comedy teams.
Working for producer Hal Roach from 1926-1940, the pair made dozens of shorts and 27 features. But when they left Roach, their status declined, as plainly delineated at the beginning of Jeff Pope's creditable but overly expository script. By the early 1950s, having been supplanted as the big screen's kings of comedy by Abbott and Costello, the duo was nearly broke. So they headed for the U.K. on a tour of live music-hall performances with the hope of launching a new movie with promoter/producer Bernard Delfont (Rufus Jones), whose abiding interest at the time was promoting the home-bred comedian Norman Wisdom.