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fighting for Europe and survival. Sportsday at 6.30. Now on BBC News, | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
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Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News and, as ever to | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
take us through the cinema releases, Mark Kermode. Lovely to see you. | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
Welcome. What about this week? Robert Downey Jr. Getting back into | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
suit for Iron Man three, the concluding part of the trilogy. We | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
have a Jet Black Comedy starring Jack Black, based on real events | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
and the Look of Love, Steve Coogan playing the former King of Soho in | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
a vaguely comedic biopick. Let's start with Iron Man 3. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
The last one?! Have you seen any of them? No, I'm just being rude. | :01:14. | :01:23. | |
This is not my kind of thing. Ironmen saves the world, there is a | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
vortex going into another dimension. This has left him with bad dreams. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
If you went through what he did, you would be having bad dreams. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
He's attempting to settle down with Gwyneth Paltrow's pepper pot, the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
love interest with whom he's trying to form a home. However, out there | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
in the world is a terrible evil man, Mandarin, threatening to world. | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
Tony Stark offers an ultimatum to him. Here is a clip. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Here's the holiday greeting I've been wanting to send to the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Mandarin. I didn't know how to phrase it until now. My name's Tony | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Stark and I'm not afraid of you. You are a coward. So I've decided | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
that you just died, pal. I'm going to come and get the body. There's | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
no politics here, just good old- fashioned revenge. No Pentagon, | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
just you and me. Here's my home address, 108-80 Malibu Point, 90265, | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
I'll leave the door unlocked. That's what you wanted, right. Bill | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
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Glad I wasn't in that journalist pack. Having issued the ultimate | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
tum, they come looking for him, find the house and he's then | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
basically off in hiding attempting to rebuild himself. Pepper pot is | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
safe sort of but not really and the search for Mandarin is on. Iron Man | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
3 is directed by Shane Black who worked with Robert Downey Jr. In | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and made his reputation. He had a real line in | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
quotable and often rude zingers, as they were called. Got paid a huge | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
amount of money for writing the movies and he's a sharp | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
screenwriter. With Iron Man, the central character of Robert Stark | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
is known for doing these zingy sharp, rude and sort of self- | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
grandising things. That is a marriage made in heaven and also | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
all the best stuff is to do with Robert Downey Jr. Playing that | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
character and doing it in that way. You also have to have massive | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
amounts of special effects. The suit now works on his command, the | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
bits of the suit fly on to his arm as he commands them to. He also has | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
a whole range of other suits which appear to work without people | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
inside them. This means that, as the drama progresses, we move | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
towards a transformers showdown which is the least interesting part | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
of the film. It also has a very good villain in the shape of Ben | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Kingsley. The best thing about him playing Mandarin is, he shows a | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
very great sense of humour about his own reputation for lovelyness. | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
It's one of those films in which you think, when you see Ben | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Kingsley, you think, what is that voice that he's doing?! Of course, | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
there is a reveal and it all makes sense. As far as the superhero | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
movies are concerned, it's one of the better ones. It's messy, | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
scrappy and too long and in the finale, when there are robots | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
hitting each other, there is a lack of interest. The series proved to | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
be more exciting than we had the right to expect when it began, it's | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
down to the fact that it has a good script and Robert Downey Jr. Is | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
very good at doing that sassy, sort of, you know, very self-confident | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
and smart one-liner stuff. This works very well. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Without revealing my own self- interest, let's move on to Bernie. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
I'm intrigued by the Jack Black thing, there's something about him, | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
isn't there? What did you make of it? When he's reined in, actually, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
he's a very good actor. You have a story about a mortician who | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
befriends a lady played by Shirley McLane, not popular within the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
community. They become very, very close, almost unusually close and | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
then his thoughts turn slowly and unexpectedly to murder. The | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
interesting thing is that when you watch Jack Black in a movie, you | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
expect some kind of comedic term, Jack Black doing the larger than | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
life loud aggressive comedy. In the case of this, you get something | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
completely different which is him reining everything in and playing | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
this strangely uptight, strangely precise character who, behind his | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
smile, has an unexpected darkness lurking. This film is actually | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
based on a real-life case and it takes a lot of, you know, it's a | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
very risky endeavour to turn a story, a morbid black comedy about | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
death, and to tell this story in a way which is fictionalised but | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
broadly comedic. It works because Jack Black, the best comes out of | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
him. Having seen too many annoying films with him in it, this is | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
strange, creepy weird, can't get the measure of him and it's all the | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
better for it. It's a small movie, but it's worth seeing and it works | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
because of his performance. Look of Love, the film's had a lot | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
of publicity, everybody knows it's out. What about this one? It's not | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
a standard biopic. It's about the King of Soho who became the richest | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
man in Britain but made his money running sexy shows, as he called | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
them, and then a line of men's magazines. Here is a clip. | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
Take a seat at your table, Sir. Thanks. �12,000 to you. I tried | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
doing a magazine in the '60s. It didn't work. You didn't know what | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
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you were doing. We will. Men are buying into the world of cigars and | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
exotic holidays and the luxury cars. This will take the world out to the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
nation. There'll be lots of beautiful girls, beautifully | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
photographed. We have, as the fate of our | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
magazine, a hot female columnist and she roadtests the men of Europe. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
So you get it generally from that. The interesting thing is that when | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
people were first talking about this, you thought the cast is very | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
clever because there is a touch of the Alan Partridge about that | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
character. The primary view that you get from this is that it's a | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
very affectionate look at the character of Paul. The backbone of | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
the narrative is that the tragic story of his daughter. One of the | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
problems with the film, and there is much to enjoy, Steve Coogan's | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
performance is very funny and there are lots of laughs in it, and, you | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
know, it's clearly made with enthusiasm, but the problem is it | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
never gets below the skin of the central character and it's almost | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
as if it's scared to delve into the seedier, nastier, darker, stranger | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
side. If you have got that tragic, narrative ark, as the central | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
backbone, you do end up wondering why so much of the film stays on | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
the surface. That's not the say the surface isn't good. There's a lots | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
of wig-bear wearing, stuck-on moustache wearing and fun period | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
detail but they've not overly worried about it. Personally, I | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
wanted more investigation of the characters and more investigation | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
of the lifestyle. I interviewed Paul Raymond once. In person, he | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
was nothing like as funny as Steve Coogan's character was. This is | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
more like a broad comedy in the end. It's almost like a kind of cabaret | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
act based on the life of Paul Raymond which is fine, but that | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
sits oddly. The tragic story, it sits oddly with that. Because it's | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
a controversial area, nudity and the obscene publications act and | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
that sort of stuff, you want depth but you don't get that, you get a | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
lot of wigs and moustaches and Partridge humour, but not much else. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Missed opportunity perhaps. Is that perhaps not Film of the Week? | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
film I like is Love is All You Need. It's a Pierce Brosnan movie. The | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
way this has been described is, like Mamma Mia! Without the songs, | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
as done by the company who we know better for bringing us films like | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Anti-Christ. It's made with real people in it. If you took the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
romantic comedy structure in it, fine, but what if these were | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
genuine people with money problems and you let them play out. Actually, | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
I went in, being cynical, having seen the poster and thought, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
really? I came out, firstly I'm a convert to Pierce Brosnan and that | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
most surprising thing, Mamma Mia! Without the songs and it works | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
really well. Wow!Yep. You have sold its to me! If I don't want to | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
go out though and pay for a cinema ticket, what about DVDs? Pitch | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
Perfect has been out for a couple of weeks. This is a really funny | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
snappy teen comedy about the world of competitive act pel la singing. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
-- acapella singing. A really good cast, lots of very bitter, mean | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
girl-style humour and skpwrust done with real panache. Again, I went | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
into it thinking how funny can a film about Acapella be, the answer | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
is very funny indeed. Excellent. Lovely to see you. That's my | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
weekend sown up with Pitch Perfect. A reminder before we go that | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
there's much more film news, reviews, background information on | :11:33. | :11:37. |