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  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Paul Blart: Mall Cop - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW Die Hard for kids? 10 August 2009 12:00 GMT

    Ten minutes of watching this and I was fixing to put my smart-arse put-down critic head on, lining Paul Blart up for a sound critical kicking. Bland, unimaginative, generic, clichéd and lame – it wasn’t looking good, to be honest.

    After...

  • Blades of Glory - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Blades of Glory - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW Can Ferrell bring Talladega Nights to the ice? 15 August 2007 11:00 GMT

    Such is his popularity at present that only four words - Will Ferrell does NASCAR – were required to convince Sony to commission his last project, the $150 million making Taladega Nights.

    And so, treading a similar path, we now have "Will...

  • Hot Fuzz - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Hot Fuzz - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW I fought the law and the law one - has it with this movie? 18 June 2007 11:00 GMT

    Three years on from their big screen “Rom-Zom-Com” debut, Shaun of the Dead’s Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are back for another slice of genre busting action in Hot Fuzz, but does it match up to its predecessor? We get watching to find out.

  • Smokin' Aces - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Smokin' Aces - DVD review

    2.0 REVIEW A great follow up to Narc or one to avoid? 16 May 2007 11:00 GMT

    From the creator of gritty undercover cop thriller Narc, comes a furiously bloody action flick set in the murky underworld of the Las Vegas mafia. When Buddy “Aces” Israel (Piven), a magician and small-time crook, decides to turn state’s evidence against...

  • Tenacious D: In The Pick Of Destiny - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Jack Black 0

    Tenacious D: In The Pick Of Destiny - DVD review

    2.5 REVIEW Is this the greatest rock film in the world? 6 April 2007 9:00 GMT

    Tenacious D - the folk-rock band created by Jack Black and Kyle Gass on HBO’s comedy sketch programme “The Mr. Show” - make a premature leap to the big screen in this meandering comedy written by the film’s stars.

    Rebelling against his puritanical...

  • Jackass number two - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Steve-O 0

    Jackass number two - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Worthy second instalment or cash-in? 2 April 2007 13:00 GMT

    Four years on from their first big screen outing, the Jackass crew are back for another 95 minutes of bone crunching, testicle crushing mayhem. Dispensing with any pretence of a plot the gung-ho gang launch themselves into a string of uproarious skits...

  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - DVD review

    4.5 REVIEW Hilariously funny or gringe worthy watching? 13 March 2007 9:00 GMT

    Jagshemash! Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy creation - Kazakhstani gypsy catcher turned journalist Borat Sagdiyev – makes his big screen debut in a scathing satirical attack on bigotry, misogyny and racism in the western world.

    Shot on...

  • Clerks 2 - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Clerks 2 - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Smith's back but is Clerks a second stroke of genius or a poor trip down memory lane? 22 February 2007 11:00 GMT

    So Dante and Randall are back – great news for all lovers of the original (and it was definitely original) movie.

    OK, so fans of Clerks will be disappointed that the new film is in colour, has a bigger budget and is a lot slicker than the...

  • Accepted - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Accepted - DVD review

    1.5 REVIEW 1st class honours or a Desmond? 13 February 2007 14:00 GMT

    Directorial debut from Grosse Point Blank writer Steve Pink (not to be confused with wacky radio wind-up merchant Steve Penk) that sees a group of high-school drop-outs setting up their own university because no-one else will take them.

    Dodgeball...

  • Click - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    Click - DVD review

    1.0 REVIEW Comic gem or complete turn off? 7 February 2007 11:00 GMT

    Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is an over worked architect who is spending too much time at the office with his monster of a boss (David Hasselhoff) and not enough with his family.

    A spooky salesman called Morty (Christopher Walken) gives...

  • Severance - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Horror, Comedy 0

    Severance - DVD review

    3.0 REVIEW The Office meets Deliverance or Hostel meets Shaun of the Dead? 24 January 2007 11:00 GMT

    Billed as “The Office meets Deliverance” - although more like Hostel crossed with Shaun of the Dead for our money - Severance is a surprisingly entertaining British comedy-horror.

    Seven colleagues (led by Danny Dyer’s “Steve” who boasts...

  • 11.14 - DVD . Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy 0

    11.14 - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Twisted black comedy or poor man's Crash? 20 January 2007 9:00 GMT

    Deliciously twisted black comedy from first time writer / director Greg Marcks that, in the style of Guillermo Arriaga’s “Amores Perros”, explores a fatal car crash from multiple perspectives.

    Set during the half hour preceding the accident...

  • You, Me and Dupree - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Owen Wilson 0

    You, Me and Dupree - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Is three a crowd? 3 January 2007 13:00 GMT

    Pleasantly diverting comedy from the directors of US TV comedy hit Arrested Development that sees floppy-haired Frat Packer Owen Wilson proving the old adage that: “Two’s company. Dupree’s a crowd”.

    When newlyweds Carl (Dillon) and Molly...

  • Nacho Libre - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Jack Black 0

    Nacho Libre - DVD review

    4.0 REVIEW Do you really want to watch Jack Black in a leotard for 90 minutes? 20 December 2006 11:00 GMT

    Jack “School of Rock” Black plays Nacho, an overweight friar working as a chef in a run down Mexican orphanage. Desperate to earn some cash to spice up his kids’ meal times, Nacho dons a fetching leotard/mask combo and takes up the ancient Mexican sport...

  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD, Comedy, Uma Thurman, Anna Faris 0

    My Super Ex-Girlfriend - DVD review

    3.5 REVIEW Would you dump Uma Thurman? 13 December 2006 11:00 GMT

    Ivan “Ghostbusters” Reitman’s latest sees a crime-fighting superhero, G-Girl (Thurman), embarking on a “Fatal Attraction”-style revenge mission when she is dumped by her mild-mannered boyfriend (Wilson).

    After meeting the seemingly normal...

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