A grandfather tells his grandson the story behind the nickname 'The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain'. It's 1917. English cartographers Reginald Anson (Hugh Grant) and George Garrad (Ian McNeice) come to the small Wales village of Ffynnon Garw. The locals consider it the first mountain inside of Wales but it has to be at least 1000ft for it to be called a mountain. Morgan the Goat (Colm Meaney) is the womanizing scheming pub owner. Everybody is shocked at the mountain being calculated as only a hill. Morgan suggests adding 20ft to the mountain, Reverend Jones demands that the soil be taken from their garden and Johnny Shellshocked (Ian Hart) convinces everybody that it can be done. Morgan schemes to keep the cartographers from leaving with the help of Betty from Cardiff (Tara Fitzgerald).
It's a light fluffy little comedy. The humor is charming. It needs something with a bit of edge. Tara Fitzgerald could have been that biting edge. She needs to be in the movie right from the beginning. The romance could be much better considering the two actors. It's probably that her character is faking and his character is clueless. They don't have quite the right chemistry. The rest headed by Colm Meaney has a lot of charm and carries the day in the end.
It's a light fluffy little comedy. The humor is charming. It needs something with a bit of edge. Tara Fitzgerald could have been that biting edge. She needs to be in the movie right from the beginning. The romance could be much better considering the two actors. It's probably that her character is faking and his character is clueless. They don't have quite the right chemistry. The rest headed by Colm Meaney has a lot of charm and carries the day in the end.