Aren't old things funny!? Remember this song, it's great but not great and that's funny, right?!
No, on all counts.
Y2K is a horror-comedy that's neither horrific nor comedic. What original idea there was for the film - what if the Y2K bug actually happened? - is badly executed in a blizzard of magic technobabble, fantastical leaps of logic, rank stupidity even for the genre of crappy horror, and resorting to low-grade stoner, sexual or (at one point literally) lavatory…
The very start of Late Night With The Devil shows so many production company logos - a reflection of how hard it can be to make a film - that it became annoying, then hilarious. Your patience will be rewarded.
David Dastmalchian stars as Jack Delroy, host of a late night chat show, Night Owls. Jack is not quite as successful as he'd wish to be. A fun scene-setting montage, narrated by Michael Ironside, depicts him as always being second…
You know exactly what to expect from a Wallace and Gromit film, and Vengeance Most Fowl delivers in spades.
The conceit of Feathers McGraw coming back is well-executed - he's properly out for revenge - and doesn't feel like Aardman came up with it as a last resort.
A couple of gags are retreads of ones from earlier films, but many more had me chortling.
The best character, as always, is Gromit, with the similarly wordless penguin close behind. Norbot…
