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True Brit - Yes, essentially the 'stiff upper lip', (working) class values and the poking of fun at same was the plot. With background asides and mentions for Bicycle Repair Man and the Rutles, etc. Quite clearly Cleese was on the cover for name recognition, and maybe some plot suggestions (see Moore and Albion), while the 'plot' was a short story stretched out into a hardback by Anglophile-but-American Kim "Howard" Johnson. With art from pseudo-Anglo Byrne. Not a high point for the Elseworlds brand...

Kingdom Come and The Golden Age (both labelled Elseworlds, although the former has mostly been dragged into continuity, and was for a while 'The' future; while the latter could slot into the past of the DCU without too much hassle) are both good.

I have all the Elseworlds titles, and enjoy(ed) almost-all of them to a greater or lesser degree, and for various reasons. Among those that spring most readily to mind as being enjoyable to read:
Superman: Speeding Bullets is a great take on Kal El being raised by the Wayne family, and how that changes him.
JLA: The Nail is a nice spin on how the DCU would have shifted had the Kents not found Kal. With cameos from everyone.
Superman/Batman: World's Funnest is a superb mockery of/love letter to the various iterations and universes of the wider DCU.
Planetary/JLA: Terra Occulta pits the Archaeologists of Popular Culture against the JLA proper, rather than WildStorm analogues.
The Elseworlds 80-page Giant is tough - and expensive - to find, but contains some great one-pagers and short stories.
Superman: The Dark Side and Superman: Red Son are superficially similar - transplanting the crash from Krypton to Apokalips and Russia respectively and following the indoctrination of the Man of Steel - but the latter works much better dramatically, and with a fairly clever ending.
Batman: Thrillkiller took an alternate slant on the origins of Barbara Gordon and Bruce Wayne, and bringing their alter-egos together the other way around.
Justice Riders, transplanting the JLA to the Wild West I enjoyed, but remember little of the plot..

Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham, Batman: I, Joker, JLA: Act of God and JLA: Secret Soociety of Super Heroes are probably my four favourites that I enjoyed very much indeed, but do not remember any plot elements of. Weird that, but shouldn't be held against them!

Batman: Castle of the Bat, Superman: Kal, JLA: The Island of Dr. Moreau, Batman: Masques and Superman: War of the Worlds were nice enough reworkings of Frankenstein, Arthurian legend, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Phantom of the Opera and War of the Worlds, although I enjoyed them in decreasing order as listed.
Superman: Metropolis, Batman: Nosferatu and Wonder Woman: Blue Amazon are a loose trilogy modelled after the 1920/30s German Expressionist cinema by the Lofficiers, experts on such areas as pulps and cinema. Probably more interesting if the subject is familiar/intriguing, and art-wise not for everyone, but good. (Hopefully the planned fourth-and-final volume will one day see print...)
The Batman/Dracula trilogy worked fairly well, I felt, but probably spun the story out longer than they should have.

Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty featured three stories of a decent length loosely linked, and all three were excellent.
Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle was great fun, and much better than a simple crossover/team-up.

The 1994 annuals were indeed all Elseworlds specials, and generally of a good standard. Most interesting was (if my memory is correct) that several stories did not feature tacked-on redemption for negative portrayals of some of the heroes. Which let down a couple of the non-Annual stories, I feel. Particular highlights for me include:
Legends of the Dark Knight's "Citizen Wayne" which toys with Harvey Dent and Bruce Wayne very nicely.
Detective Comics' "Leatherwing" which sets Batman up in pirate's garb.
Adventures of Superman and Superboy which had a small handful of heroes leading the resistence against alien invaders.

My personal highlight of all Elseworlds tales was L.E.G.I.O.N. Annual #5 or Annual #007 which, among other short spoof stories which mostly worked featured "Elseworlds Rejects": covers for bizarre and laughable projects that would never happen. It also had one of the best parodies of the origin of Batman I've seen. Still makes me laugh just thinking about it! Probably my warped sense of humour...



On the downside, there are a couple of titles that were disappointing. The Teen Titans Swingin' Elseworlds Special was delayed for many years, and a massive disappointment when it finally arrived (as 'The Lost Annual'), although its difficult to say whether it was the wait that killed it. Similarly, as already noted, True Brit was rumoured for so long as John Cleese's English Superman, and then turned out to be a pastiche of American views of the English, with a barely-super central character.