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blahflowersLeague of Gentlemen's Apocalypse was okay. Considering how bloody and twisted the series got the film was surprisingly clean. It's amazing they got the money to make a film in the first place, but it's as though they said "right, we've got strange misshapen characters with catchphrases most people, certainly outside the UK won't know. The characters don't have much of an arc and there's no crowbarred in ill-advised love story, the only woman in it is Victoria Wood. But if we make it too dark then that'll risk more than four people outside the UK watching it."
On the whole, the film works best at the points where it's traditional Roysten Vaisey sketches, and this is from someone who was bored of the format at the end of the second series. It's a bit like The Matrix, if you've never had the idea that maybe the world around you is an illusion, or in this case the idea of stories coming alive and hunting their creators, then the film is going to suprise you. If you've already thought it then the story isn't that original. The film lacks a driving narrative, it does seem like the LoG had three or four ideas for sketches and then struggled to link them. And the ending is pretty weak. More like the money ran out and they had to cobble together something quickly.
But David Warner! David Warner! David Warner! So good he's worth mentioning thrice. And the faux stop-motion monsters, that was when the spirit of the TV show seemed alive again. When it went away from it's origins it seemed to falter. The only real exception is Steve Pemberton playing Herr Lipp trying to pass himself off as Steve Pemberton. As Hilary Briss says, he's not much more than a weak one-line joke of a character but he's at his best then.
And I thought Herr Lipp was supposed to be a gay paedophile? Or is his hanging around with a lot of children supposed to be a deliberate thing?
On the whole, the film works best at the points where it's traditional Roysten Vaisey sketches, and this is from someone who was bored of the format at the end of the second series. It's a bit like The Matrix, if you've never had the idea that maybe the world around you is an illusion, or in this case the idea of stories coming alive and hunting their creators, then the film is going to suprise you. If you've already thought it then the story isn't that original. The film lacks a driving narrative, it does seem like the LoG had three or four ideas for sketches and then struggled to link them. And the ending is pretty weak. More like the money ran out and they had to cobble together something quickly.
But David Warner! David Warner! David Warner! So good he's worth mentioning thrice. And the faux stop-motion monsters, that was when the spirit of the TV show seemed alive again. When it went away from it's origins it seemed to falter. The only real exception is Steve Pemberton playing Herr Lipp trying to pass himself off as Steve Pemberton. As Hilary Briss says, he's not much more than a weak one-line joke of a character but he's at his best then.
And I thought Herr Lipp was supposed to be a gay paedophile? Or is his hanging around with a lot of children supposed to be a deliberate thing?
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Date: 2005-06-08 09:50 pm (UTC)