Much Better Than I Had Anticipated

Rating: 8/10 (26 April 2011)

I happened to see a bit of it on TV with my girlfriend and she liked what she saw. So I got the video and we watched it. I wasn't expecting much (from the movie's title), but the end result turned out to be quite good.
The movie is light entertainment and hit and miss jokes, but like Monty Python, the actors made the material work through good acting. The chemistry between the lead characters was perfect, and there were clever bits such as the dog van "peeing gas" and their unwittingly bringing their would-be assassin on the road with them, only to unintentionally have him poison himself. And best of all, the movie didn't overload on gross-out humor. Not for everyone, but it's one of the great lowbrow comedies.