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Bunny & the Bull

  • Currently 4/5 Stars.

Cinema Release Date 27 Nov 2009
DVD Release Date 29 Mar 2010
79% of raters want to see this
Cast: Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Verónica Echegui, Noel Fielding, Richard Ayoade, Julian Barratt, George Newton, Waleed Khalid, Madeleine Worrall, Margaret Wheldon
Writer(s): Paul King,
Producer(s): Mary Burke, Robin Gutch, Mark Herbert,
Director(s): Paul King


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So, what's it all about?

Stephen Turnbull hasn't been outside in months, and when he finds his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek around Europe he undertook with his friend Bunny, a catalogue of adventures unfold. Stephen's flat becomes the springboard for an extraordinary odyssey through lands made up of snapshots and souvenir replica landmarks within his imagination. "Bunny & the Bull" is a touching and beautiful journey to the end of the room.

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Described as a road movie set in a flat, in Bunny And The Bull, the deeply insecure and highly insular Stephen (Hogg) has turned into a low-budget Howard Hughes. And he's happy to tell us why, having had his head wrecked by his highly fearless and extremely selfish best friend, Bunny (Farnaby), and his heart broken by the sultry and superstitious Spanish waitress Eloisa (Echegui). Bunny jumping Eloisa's bones didn't exactly help the increasingly fragile Stephen's belief in mankind either.

King's usual blend of Michel Gondry, Blue Peter, Python and Spongebob Squarepants are all present and correct once more, all wrapped up in an acid trip version of Withnail & I.

THE VERDICT:

Naturally, when it came to making the leap from the small screen wonder The Mighty Boosh to his big screen debut, writer/director Paul King was hoping he wouldn't suffer the usual knee-jerk reaction that comes with such difficult upgrades. Nonetheless, King's surreal-verging-on-bonkers comedy here is not a million latenight spliffs away from the surreal-verging-on-bonkers comedy that is The Mighty Boosh. Which, as I said, Paul King also directed.

No wonder the comparisons have been coming thick and fast, much to King's annoyance. Chances are, there are times when you'll believe you're watching a movie where the Boosh's Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's stunt doubles hook up with Penelope Cruz's stunt double. Crazy. Still, for about the first hour, this is very nearly wonderful, wondrous stuff...

RATING: 2/5

Review By Paul Byrne

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mcclofsky
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 really enjoyed this. the movie has some really cleverly constructed sets which help make this movie stand out from other road/buddy comedy movies. has some really great one liners in it but unfortunately just not enough. some nice cameos ,good performances all round and not the director doesn't drag anything out. worth a watch
TheAngelicDiablo
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 Wacky, witty and lovingly retarded.
ssconnolly
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 The Bunny and the Bull is the highly anticipated (by me) feature length debut for Mighty Boosh director Martin King. It’s a road trip movie with a twist as although main character Stephen is in his apartment for the whole film through flashbacks we see the story of his journey across Europe with best friend Bunny a year prior. Now this sounds like a very bad idea, like the setting for American Pie nineteen or whatever they’re up to now but actually it works quite well. Stephen is agoraphobic (scared to go outside) and throughout the film we start to see more and more what have caused his fears. And so despite being a comedy film, and it is very funny throughout, we also get something a bit more affectionate. The ending will be viewed by some as too dark and tragic for a comedy but I think it was a wonderful end to the film and the film was kind of always leading in that way. But the most impressive aspect of the film is undeniably the visuals. The sets are homemade and quite cheap looking but its simplicity makes the film easier to enjoy and have fun with. There is a clear influence from Michel Gondry’s spectacular film Science of Sleep with the at times cartoony look. And who’s complaining, if you are going to see this film because of King’s Mighty Boosh background as I did then you are going to love it. Visually this is my favourite film of the year and the scene with the bull fight at the end was without doubt one of the most breathtakingly brilliant ones I have ever seen. The films cast are all quite good. Edward Hogg was very good as Stephen, the neurotic leading man. He wasn’t the best comedy wise but he gave the film the emotion I that I doubt many of his co-stars would’ve been able to. Simon Farnaby, as Bunny, provided almost all of the laughs. He never really tries to make his performance anything else but funny but it worked very well in the end. Verónica Echegui, despite sounding like Microsoft Sam for half the film, was also quite good. She plays the love interest which no film seems to survive without and she did a good job of it, making her character slightly different from other film lovers. Mighty Boosh men Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett pop up for some rather brief cameos, which were a little hit and miss. Barrett’s cameo was hilarious and he completely outshines Fielding for once, as the scrawny funny man’s brief appearance was very dull. So all in all I thought this was a rather exceptional film. The plot may not sound great but King makes it work fantastically and his direction is truly magnificent with almost every shot visually vivid and truly stunning. The sets are also wonderfully simple and creative. For example one of the first scenes is Bunny and Stephen in the bookies made out of cardboard. It doesn’t sound special, sounds more like they wanted to keep the budget minimal but at the end of the day they made the film that bit more special to watch. It is important for Mighty Boosh fans to note this is not the film version of your beloved show. For a start it is more extravagant, more tragic and touching and a good bit less funny, but not in a bad way. I would however still advise them, among others to see go see The Bunny and the Bull as it is, quite simply a sensational film.
maguirce
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 Very enjoyable film! It struck me as a cross between The Mighty Boosh and Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind. Story of a two mates on a trip around europe, it starts a year after the trip and from the way Turnbull's acting you know something bad's going to happen. Lots of funny moments but more than just a comedy. Not an amazing film, but definitely worth a watch.
kal-el-returns
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
vu1999uk
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 Enjoyable comedy, with some great images and performances. Does not really have enough laughs for a comedy though, and this lets it down quite a bit. But still worth a watch.
chloemay
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 should be great :D

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