Comedy

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Dave Made a Maze’ collapses like its made of cardboard

27/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2019, Adam Busch, Adventure, Bill Watterson, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Dave Made a Maze, Fantasy, Frank Caeti, Horror, James Urbaniak, January 2019, John Hennigan, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Rating: Poop, Stephanie Allynne

Fantasy-comedy Dave Made a Maze is a strange genre hybrid that never quite lives up to its visual invention and clever central concept.

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Review – ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ has oodles of charm to fill its originality gap

24/12/201823/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Angela Lansbury, Ben Whishaw, Certificate: U, Colin Firth, Comedy, December 2018, Dick Van Dyke, Drama, Emily Blunt, Emily Mortimer, Joel Dawson, Julie Walters, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns, Meryl Streep, Musical, Nathanael Saleh, Pixie Davies, Rating: Pop, Rob Marshall

Emily Blunt steps into Julie Andrews’s toe-tapping shoes for Disney’s musical sequel Mary Poppins Returns.

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Review – ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ celebrates the character’s rich legacy

23/12/201823/12/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Action, Animation, Bob Persichetti, Brian Tyree Henry, Certificate: PG, Comedy, December 2018, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, John Mulaney, Kathryn Hahn, Kimiko Glenn, Liev Schreiber, Lily Tomlin, Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Peter Ramsey, Phil Lord, Rating: Pop, Rodney Rothman, Shameik Moore, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Superhero, Zoe Kravitz

The madness of Marvel’s comic book multi-verses is brought to the fore in superhero animation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Review – Disney sequel ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is full of fun, but lacking in soul

21/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alan Tudyk, Alfred Molina, Animation, Bill Hader, Certificate: PG, Comedy, Gal Gadot, John C Reilly, November 2018, Phil Johnston, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Rating: Pop, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Taraji P Henson, Wreck-It Ralph

John C Reilly and Sarah Silverman return for Ralph Breaks the Internet, which is a sequel to Disney’s hugely successful Wreck-it Ralph.

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Review – Festive sequel ‘Nativity Rocks!’ is an uplifting celebration of Coventry… really

17/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Anna Chancellor, Brian Bartle, Celia Imrie, Certificate: U, Christmas, Comedy, Craig Revel Horwood, Daniel Boys, Debbie Isitt, Helen George, Hugh Dennis, Jessica Hynes, Musical, Nativity, Nativity Rocks!, November 2018, Ramin Karimloo, Rating: Pop, Rupert Turnbull, Ruth Jones, Simon Lipkin

The fourth movie in the Christmas franchise, Nativity Rocks brings a festive talent show to Coventry, with uplifting results.

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Review – ‘The Grinch’ is charmless enough to make misers of us all

11/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Angela Lansbury, Animation, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Certificate: U, Christmas, Comedy, November 2018, Pharrell Williams, Rashida Jones, Rating: Poop, Scott Mosier, The Grinch, Yarrow Cheney

Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Christmas-hating title character in Illumination Entertainment’s new animated take on The Grinch.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Festival’ remains an anarchic comedy highlight of 2018

10/12/201809/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Claudia O'Doherty, Comedy, December 2018, Emma Rigby, Hammed Animashaun, Hannah Tointon, Hugh Coles, Iain Morris, Jemaine Clement, Joe Thomas, Kurt Yaeger, Lizzy Connolly, Nick Frost, Noel Fielding, Rating: Pop, The Festival, Theo Barklem-Biggs

Joe Thomas reunites with Inbetweeners creator Iain Morris for the anarchic comedy The Festival, which is now out on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Review – ‘Juliet, Naked’ is a sweet, lightweight romcom by the sea

30/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Ayoola Smart, Azhy Robertson, Certificate: 15, Chris O'Dowd, Comedy, Denise Gough, Ethan Hawke, Jesse Peretz, Juliet Naked, Lily Brazier, November 2018, Rating: Pop, Romance, Romcom, Rose Byrne

Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name gets a frothy, pleasant big screen adaptation in Juliet, Naked.

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Review – ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ skewers boarding school snobbery, but has little horror edge

20/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Asa Butterfield, Certificate: 15, Comedy, Crispian Mills, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Horror, Jo Hartley, Margot Robbie, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Simon Pegg, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Tom Rhys-Harries

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the producers behind Slaughterhouse Rulez, which is a below par horror-comedy.

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Review – ‘Smallfoot’ squanders its thematic smarts with generic kiddie action

02/11/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Animation, Certificate: U, Channing Tatum, Comedy, Common, Danny DeVito, Gina Rodriguez, James Corden, Karey Kirkpatrick, LeBron James, Musical, October 2018, Rating: Poop, Smallfoot, Zendaya

Channing Tatum and Zendaya lead the cast of Smallfoot, which is more famous for the Zendaya is Meechee meme than for its actual story.

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Review – Rowan Atkinson’s charm has limits in ‘Johnny English Strikes Again’

29/10/2018 Patrick Wilson 0 Comment 2018, Adam James, Amit Shah, Ben Miller, Certificate: PG, Comedy, David Kerr, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacy, Johnny English, Johnny English Strikes Again, October 2018, Olga Kurylenko, Rating: Poop, Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson returns as the titular hapless spy in Johnny English Strikes Again, which feels as curiously outdated as its protagonist.

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