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Saturday, 3 August 2013

A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING [2012]

First time directors Crispian Mills & Chris Hopewell cast Simon Pegg as a struggling children's author who develops an unhealthy obsession with serial killers and murder in the black comedy A Fantastic Fear Of Everything.
With Pegg in it I thought it might be worth a laugh or two even if it is a bad film.  I was wrong.
Pegg sleeps walks his way through this dreadfully boring excuse for a comedy that drags it's feet on it's way to developing any sort of purpose at all.  There were some interesting animated bits thrown into the mix and a delightfully bitchy performance from Clare Higgins but beyond that it's just plain dull.

1 hedgehog out of 5

2 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

I almost watched this a few days ago but it had no Nick Frost so I went for something else instead. It sounds like I got lucky. :)

cuckoo said...

Another one of your bargain bin purchases?

It's pretty terrible.