“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)
aka D'Mrs. Brown's Boys Movie
I stumbled onto this without the requisite knowledge of the TV show upon which it's based and there's this weird cultural divide where in England, a man in a dress is automatically funny and in the U.S., a man in a dress is usually considered unfortunate (and I just watched a bunch of Madea films - I might review one). Add to this that it's about an Irish family, which again is comedic gold in the UK and not here, and you can understand my quandary. Okay: a woman's fruit stand is threatened by a giant corporation and her family fights back. There's blind ninjas for no good reason. There's stereotyping that becomes offensive. There's "breaking" that's left in, which I'm guessing was one of the popular things about the TV show. There are some scattered chuckles. It's not abysmal, just not good.
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The show was originally a stage and radio production, it then came to television and because of it's 'live' roots they would keep in bloopers such as people entering at the wrong time, messing up a line, production crew or equipment being seen. You should check out some of the stage productions and tv show, it is a lot of fun. But that is coming from a devoted anglophile!
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