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I am, as my loyal readers will know, definitely not the kind of person who becomes so obsessed with performers that I will track down and watch avidly any old rubbish that they're in for five minutes. That is not a thing that I do, at all.
In other news, I saw an ad on the side of a bus giving some of the casting for Horrid Henry: The Movie, and immediately went to see it. It was quite a bit better than I expected, actually. I liked the plot being driven by a wicked private school headmaster (Richard E Grant, who is probably still finding splinters of scenery in his teeth) trying to get a local primary school shut down so the parents would have pay to to send their kids to his school.
Jo Brand was rather wasted- I think her dinner-lady character had one line, unless you count "Stew. Vegetable stew," as two lines; Noel Fielding's rock star character was effective; Anjelica Huston's English accent was impressive; I'm not sure why Mathew Horne didn't get a higher billing- his quietly resigned Dad was very watchable; I wanted to give Rebecca Front, as the headmistress, a hug. Of all the star turns, though, Dick and Dom's insanely creepy game show hosts were probably the most fun. I'm not sure if they were actually meant to be undead and have been presenting the show for 50 years or if that was just my interpretation (to be honest, what with the level of reality of the game show shifting between "TV studio with a live audience" and "magical doors that open into different rooms, or into a vast white space", I'm probably giving the back-story of the hosts more thought as I type this entry than anybody on the production did.)
Anyway. I am not sorry I saw this and will probably buy the DVD if it has some behind-the-scenes stuff on it, but I think there is only a pretty small proportion of the childless public that I could possibly recommend the film to (and by that I mean that totaldrwhofreak might enjoy it).
In other news, I saw an ad on the side of a bus giving some of the casting for Horrid Henry: The Movie, and immediately went to see it. It was quite a bit better than I expected, actually. I liked the plot being driven by a wicked private school headmaster (Richard E Grant, who is probably still finding splinters of scenery in his teeth) trying to get a local primary school shut down so the parents would have pay to to send their kids to his school.
Jo Brand was rather wasted- I think her dinner-lady character had one line, unless you count "Stew. Vegetable stew," as two lines; Noel Fielding's rock star character was effective; Anjelica Huston's English accent was impressive; I'm not sure why Mathew Horne didn't get a higher billing- his quietly resigned Dad was very watchable; I wanted to give Rebecca Front, as the headmistress, a hug. Of all the star turns, though, Dick and Dom's insanely creepy game show hosts were probably the most fun. I'm not sure if they were actually meant to be undead and have been presenting the show for 50 years or if that was just my interpretation (to be honest, what with the level of reality of the game show shifting between "TV studio with a live audience" and "magical doors that open into different rooms, or into a vast white space", I'm probably giving the back-story of the hosts more thought as I type this entry than anybody on the production did.)
Anyway. I am not sorry I saw this and will probably buy the DVD if it has some behind-the-scenes stuff on it, but I think there is only a pretty small proportion of the childless public that I could possibly recommend the film to (and by that I mean that totaldrwhofreak might enjoy it).