The most astonishing aspect of this movie is that it cost $150,000 dollars so its basically an amateur effort. I saw it yesterday and can vouch for the fact that it's absolutely brilliant
It under no circumstances cost that little. The team who made it spent fucking years of their lives making it and they just couldn't get paid yet. Hopefully they will now because Jesus Christ the amount of work in this is astonishing.
Hullo! I too saw it on Tuesday and I 100% cannot recommend it enough. It's glorious , charming, and endlessly inventive. The little world it creates is a pleasure to inhabit too. (If you look up other reviews they concur that it's not just good, it's genuinely a little masterpiece.) And one thing Mark didn't really touch on-- it's not just a series of witty cartoon sequences, it has a proper plot and in the last twenty minutes it goes to some VERY surprisingly bonkers places and becomes rather... epic. I will say no more. Do support this film! It never got a major distribution deal and the tiny team has been beavering away on it for years. There's an interview in the new Empire magazine with more on how small it was. I'm only aware of the Prince Charles cinema in London having more screenings, so if the promised ones were anywhere else that would be great. Maybe even the London Film Festival could grab it if Mr Kermode has any sway there, I think it would fit in very well. Peace
It's genuinely one of the best films released in the UK in 2024. I would heartily recommend this film to everyone, as it's very funny, but if you can't see it in a cinema, it's out on UK Blu-Ray on 5th August 2024.
If Charlie Chaplin directed a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon that was so silly it makes Monty Python seem like Ingmar Bergman, it still wouldn't be as bonkers as this absolute masterpiece
I saw this last year at a film festival and while funny. I thought it was far too long. A great opening 20 minutes, a superb climax but the middle needed a tighter feel.
Agreed, I loved the movie but there were definitely 15 minutes of gags in the middle that could have been shaven down. Most of it was funny so it’s hard to say what should be cut though
I also agree it was too long. I think probably some of the "videogame map" parts could probably be trimmed down. Also I did enjoy some of the edgy humor, like the girl looking very innocent but acting pretty sexual when her father is not looking but maybe some of the gore/violent gags were less inspired than the more tradicional slapstick/Looney Tunes stuff.
"Imagine the rabbits from Trigger Happy TV as a Buster Keaton film..." love it. The film didn't really work for me; I wanted to love it, but it simply didn't make me laugh like Keaton does.
It does take a promise to get through the opening, but all the slapstick is very good. Every gag is a joke that pays off,, even of they missed it a little on the giant beaver beaver. It's incredibly solid slapstick visual storytelling paired with a payout to every gag. Silly and self contained, While being homages to so many things, you can't be unimpressed by this movie.
Looking forward to it as well, but not on near me yet. As for THTV animals, I loved the guy dressed as a snail at the pelican crossing and then getting on the floor to cross the road. May have to re-watch.....😂
@@juniormyrie7404 That and putting the camouflage net over the car in front of a traffic warden. I wonder how much they had to drive around to get that right.
It’s cool to se something inspired by silent comedies, Looney Tunes and even classic Angry Video Game Nerd episodes. But at the end, there’s a reason why those are shorts. Even Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton features are at most 70 minutes long. I enjoyed it at first but it becomes tiresome after a while. It’s nearly impossible to keep what at heart is just a dumb comedy with barely anything to say, interesting for almost 2 hours. I respect how it was made, but I guess it wasn’t for me.
i had to stop this after 45 minutes, it's just an overly long looney tunes cartoon but i rarely laughed. i guess you can appreciate it for the novelty but holy crap does it drag and is it ever not funny
