In the Loop Details

Very funny political satire

If you are a fan of political comedy, you will really enjoy this film and I must confess to not having seen the TV series it is spun off from, The Thick of It. This film has a good cast which demonstrates the political complexities and how a few miss timed words can hilariously de-rail the opposition to proposals. The plot could be conceived to be dangerously close to real life political events, which makes the way the arrive at the outcome truely scary!

The No.10 character does use some offensive language, but it will always make you laugh - especially when used on the Americans! Brilliantly thrown into the mix are constituency matters which all MPs have -with Steve Coogan at his best - and I felt it was a cocktail for a very good film. Enjoy!

[Highly rated reviewer]

The smell of a pissed seaside donkey this is not

If you watched the TV series then a lot of the actors in this film will be familiar and the pace and language won't come as too much of a shock. It's sharp, witty and pacey in style with the most creative swearing I've heard in a long time (well since South Park the movie if I'm honest).

It's easy to see this as merely a movie version of the TV show, but In the Loop stands on its own as a very clever version of real life events from the recent past. If even half of this is true it's terrifying and from reading interviews with Armando Ianucci I suspect that more than half of it is.

Peter Capaldi steals the movie, with Tom Hollander a close second as the incompetent minister from DfID. If you watch this and don't find it funny maybe stick with JCVD movies instead.