Felix Huxley

I loved some of Mel Brooks work, especially The Producers, but this was truly woeful. It is a series of bad dad jokes, badly directed, badly acted and there is simply nothing funny about any of it. Feldman may look the part of Igor, but the Cockney accent and the asides to the audience don't work. It's a classic case of the writing, the directing and the acting all trying hard to telegraph "funny", in the way of a kid's pantomime, rather than true humour, which often comes from playing an absurd situation straight. Some if it just doesn't work on any level - such as having a horse neighing every time a character's name is mentioned - but no reason why any of this is happening or supposed to be funny. A huge disappointment.

Only saw first episode and wan't very engaged with it. I had seen movie years ago, also pretty average, though I don't recall such a focus on racial relations and strife in the movie. It seemed to be a parallel USA (a bit like Man in the High Castle) where cops have been muzzled by decades of rule by a left-leaning President Robert Redford (yes the famous actor). Kinda ludicrous even for a cartoon/comic derivation perhaps?

I am shocked at the glowing reviews. The film is slow, tedious, boring, with the dialogue barely understandable, and a plot of a Mills & Boon novel, but with some cache because it derives from "literature" even though its nothing more than silly young women trying to find a rich husband.

Brilliant. Almodovar’s best, most daring, most absolutely mind bending masterpiece.