The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave. Read more
| Starring | Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith |
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| Director | Steve Bendelack |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy |
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The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave.
| Starring | Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Paul Hays-Marshall, Bernard Hill, Peter Kay |
|---|---|
| Director | Steve Bendelack |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK VIDEO RENTAL |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Oct 2005 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (2)
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Youre a successful TV comedy writing partnership and your creation has become one of the most adored and quoted BBC... read more on Time Out
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Surreal and hilarious, fizzing with crazy invention.
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21 out of 30 people found this review helpful
Should've stayed local...A BIG BROWN FISH OF A FILM!
Jesus. Where do I begin? British TV-to-cinema comedies have not had a distinguished history. All the sitcoms from the 1970s that tried (On the Buses, Porridge, George & Mildred etc) never worked well as a 90 minute feature. But after LOG's superb Christmas special, hopes were high for this film. Full credit to the LOG for an original idea - the characters of Royston Vasey finding out that they are fictional and that the only way to survive their destruction is to find the creators. This could've been fantastic if they hadn't chosen the three weakest characters from the series. Herr Lip, butcher Briss and the mid-life-crisis-bloke-whose-name no-one-can-remember just don't have enough humour or audience love/sympathy to carry this through. Why not Papa Lazarou or Job Centre Pauline? Plenty of potential there.
Plus points: A great opening with Edward and Tubbs, and a nice sub-plot involving a historical horror film project garners some interest, containing some of the series' trademark gristly humour (and it's always nice to see David Warner back on the screen again) but very little of what made the series and the Christmas special...well, special, are on show here.
It's a big journey from classic TV series to classic movie. Sadly, the LOG fall well short on the trip from Royston Vasey to London. They would have done well to follow Edward and Tubbs' example - and stayed local. -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Sorry guys
Sorry guys I really wanted to love this film. All of the previous LOG work ive seen on DVD and on the stage has been absolutely fantastic but I just couldnt get into this film in the same way. I had to turn it off after about twenty mins and even went onto different scenes because i was bored. I still think the LOG are brilliant but I wont be gettting this out/buying it again. Im so pleased that I didnt go to the cinema to see this
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