Mr. Blake at Your Service * * *

You rang?

This is a bit of a corny little film, but its pleasant enough to sit through.  Just don't expect to feel fulfilled. 

I'm not sure how it would go without the star power of John Malkovich, but for better or worse (to his career) he's in it. It is spoken in French and apparently he is quite fluent in that language.

Mr. Blake has just retired.  He's a widower in a state of ennui.  Refusing to attend his own retirement party he leaves his London home and goes to France.  His destination being a mansion which was once a guest house.  

He arrives to find it is run down and in a state of disrepair.  There are no guests and he is mistaken as a job applicant for the advertised role of a butler.  As he desperately wishes to stay at the mansion for personal reasons he agrees to take on the role.

After a confrontational meeting with each member of the household he soon becomes a beloved part of the team. 

Everything in this film is fairly predictable and cliched. It's also impossible and highly questionable.  But it unfolds in a way that keeps you happily amused even as credibility and believability is stretched scene by scene to an absolutely puerile conclusion.

Basically what it wants to do it does well. You can definitely take your Nanna to see this one without fear of her being offended, and you might even enjoy it yourself.