Darkly funny...with a moral?

Comic Book Villains review

Rated - 3.0 stars

By Matt Garvin from South London Avatar image

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14th July 2004

Starring, of all people, 'that weird skinny guy from Road Trip' and a bunch of other guys plus Carey Elwes from 'Robin Hood - Men in tights'. Very strange but oddly right casting.

The Story is set around two rival comic book stores based at either end of the same town and the people that get embroiled in the battle to get hold of the Holy Grail of comics collections that is discovered in their town when the collector dies.

The story deals with Greed, relationships and how different people approach life.

I liked the film. The ending had a good (albeit dark) moral twist to it and the film itself was easy to watch. However, competent though they were the acting was not really anything to write about and the script was also middle of the road. A nice film but I wouldn't be recommending to anyone in a hurry.