With this summer’s spectacularly bad Grown Ups and Dinner for Schmucks still fresh in our memories, we could be forgiven for writing off the US comedy machine for this summer. Happily, The Other Guys has gone some way to redressing the balance with a fresh and funny take on the ‘buddy cop’ motif that’s well worth a watch.
Comedy legend Steve Coogan is to play the part of a “self-righteous documentary filmmaker” in the indie comedy My Idiot Brother.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. A young boy discovers that he is the offspring of powerful parents (they always are) and a greater destiny awaits him (it always does). So he travels to be trained in the ways of the hero and then confronts much stronger and deadlier foes than any young boy should and emerges victorious (in no small part two his two companions a clever yet vulnerable girl and a cowardly yet loyal boy. No we’re not talking about Harry Potter and the One With the Spells, we are talking about Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief
After years of being stuck in pre-production, rumour mills and the yarns of old wives, it could be that finally, the Alan Partridge film is actually going to get made.
It’s enough to make anyone in Norwich weep. After what seems like an eternity and more false leads than we care to think of, the broadcasting Behemoth that is Alan Partridge may soon be making his Hush-Puppied way towards the silver screen.
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