made my eyes want to heal up

Rating: 3/10 (19 February 2007)

Being a huge fan of Spaced and Shaun of the dead, I was first in line to see this comedy. Unfortunately, I would also have been first in line to get out, if I hadn't had to spend ten minutes trying to wake my girlfriend up. In a full cinema, the most the audience managed for the 6 hour duration (it seemed like it) was mild tittering. The only moments that could have been laugh out loud were undermined by having seen them repeated continuously in the over saturated trailers The climatic set-pieces (and they seem to go on for an eternity) were apparently an attempt to ridicule American action sequences  a commendable idea  except just repeating said sequences beat for beat in a crap way doesn't for me make for sophisticated (or amusing) parody. The film reeks of made for TV, and having previously created such genius moments, it is tragic that these hugely talented fellas have created a movie that attempts to ape everything from 'the wicker man' to 'straw dogs', but ended up reminding me of 'clockwise' meets 'the boys in blue' starring Cannon and Ball. Don't listen to the insanely loyal British press giving this 11 out of 10 across the board this film is a dire follow up to the genius 'Shaun of the dead' and 'spaced'