Yarrp? Narrp!!

Rating: 7/10 (6 August 2007)

In the IMDb top 250? I don't think so. This is a film that starts out bloody hilarious but ten suffers from serious genre identity crisis. It veers between serious and comic and goes on for way too long, like 45 minutes too long, while it is still deciding what it wants to be. Simon Pegg was hilarious and absolutely deadpan through out. The supporting cast around him was great too. There were some moments of comic genius - By the Power of Greyskull! Yarrp, Narrp? The police force of Sandford had me in stitches but the cloak and dagger mystery was just too much Arsenic and Old Lace style.
A shorter, snappier, less serious version would be a masterpiece but this one became tedious and took itself too seriously in the end. All in all I would say that this was a film would test the patience of your behind unless you were lying in bed while watching.