The smell of a pissed seaside donkey this is not
If you watched the TV series then a lot of the actors in this film will be familiar and the pace and language won't come as too much of a shock. It's sharp, witty and pacey in style with the most creative swearing I've heard in a long time (well since South Park the movie if I'm honest).
It's easy to see this as merely a movie version of the TV show, but In the Loop stands on its own as a very clever version of real life events from the recent past. If even half of this is true it's terrifying and from reading interviews with Armando Ianucci I suspect that more than half of it is. Peter Capaldi steals the movie, with Tom Hollander a close second as the incompetent minister from DfID. If you watch this and don't find it funny maybe stick with JCVD movies instead. |
