Having seen Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis promoting this film like crazy across various media outlets, and with a whole selection of famous faces involved, I had quite high hopes for this film.
Based on the true story of two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing dead bodies to an Edinburgh surgery school, it doesn’t immediately scream comedy. However, Pegg and Serkis certainly bring a special relationship and confident comedy timing to the story. Also of note, Tim Curry and Tom Wilkinson are great in their roles as the heads of competing medical schools in Edinburgh. In fact, most of the cast I thought had been picked out well…..other than Jessica Hynes as Serkis’ wife, Lucky. To be honest, she’s not really my cup of tea at the best of times. In Spaced I didn’t really like her and, having recently been at an event she spoke at, found her a bit off beat then.
However, special mention does go out to Simon Pegg’s love interest, played by Isla Fisher – for an Aussie, that’s quite a Scottish accent to pull out of the bag!
All in all, I found this film to be pretty weak. Granted it’s been a long week, but I did manage to fall asleep for the last 10mins of the showing – and it’s certainly true to say that I didn’t laugh out loud at any point.
This week it was announced that they may look into filming audience reactions in cinemas to determine exactly what works and what doesn’t. Well I’m afraid to say if they were to have filmed me during this performance, they wouldn’t have had many positives to take from my reaction. A weak film, despite a strong cast – always an unfortunate outcome. At best, 6/10 Kx
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Yeh I’d agree the film was pretty average. I would have preferred a cast which was less well known but with actors that could actually pull off Scottish and Irish accents!