The owl and the pussy went to sea ... Category: Careful, parody!
The number of negative reviews on the page of this cute movie is so outrageous that I have to intervene in an attempt to eliminate injustice. Again, due to the red leaflets, my viewing was postponed several times in doubt. But now I can confidently say that for inexperienced fans of old series - the primary basis of this topic, the film is watchable and understandable, and restrained-bright.
It is no secret that to make a good parody, you need to know the parodied material well. It is a little less obvious that something in him must be not only annoying, old-fashioned, stupid, but also – secretly – “good old”, evoke tender feelings, dear memory. And then we get things delicate, kindly funny, sometimes indistinguishable from the original.
And we laugh at old England as she is shown to us in typical English cinema. And look how much has been done for that. Who better to play the perfect gentleman who does not fight without introducing himself and greeting him? There are green meadows and hills, tea for any reason with the most serious face, elderly, but full of dignity and other secrets of servants, many, many indestructible decorum, the plot is built on blasphemous intrigues around the transformation of perfectly wet British weather into something else - to order. A little seasoned with absurdism to taste in the spirit of near-Kerol: mom and dad, all sorts of surreal ladders and enjoying dialogue.
And the fact that in fact this movie is still about secret agents, not without a combat red cat, villains chewing gum, and erotic encroachments between partners in a couple, in my opinion, does not interfere with anything. Quite the opposite. American bonus.
Do not pass by without understanding.
Thanks.