Nuns on the Run is just the type of madcap farce that Monty Python veteran Eric Idle would find fulfilling, and though it falls short of Python's wit in the dialogue department, it's a fairly diverting bit of silliness. Although it came out before the similar hit Sister Act, as well as Robbie Coltrane's other well-known religious fish-out-of-water comedy The Pope Must Die, Nuns on the Run nonetheless is pretty predictable in its set-ups and payoffs. Both actors address their roles with bug-eyed zest, but it would take a truly dim set of nuns with little mind for paperwork or procedure to accept these blokes as legitimate women and transfers from another order. Yes, they're sheltered from the world, but come on. But the 1990s were a decade of films featuring gangsters involved in ridiculous scenarios that tested their improvisational abilities, so one might say that Nuns on the Run was there from the start. As he proved in his directorial debut (Clue) and in subsequent efforts (Trial and Error, The Whole Nine Yards), Jonathan Lynn has a thing for plots involving talkative idiots running around like fools.