06 EVENT REVIEW Loco London
For the second year running the not-for profit London comedy film festival, LOCO kick-started a weekend of workshops, Q&As and, of course, films from some of Britain’s best next generation of comedy writers, filmmakers and on screen talent. With a mission statement to brighten up the most miserable month of the year and celebrate a genre that consistently wins big at the box office but is largely overlooked when it comes to awards ceremonies, LOCO London gave the public a chance to view independent feature releases from around the world, but never released here in the UK.
Movie 43
What do you get when you put the biggest ensemble cast together, in a movie-within-a- movie, about 43 films and the possible end of the world? The answer should be exciting, if not interesting at best.
After a prank goes wrong, inadvertently involving some
sort of secret agent and eliciting death threats from an unexplained Asian gang, it’s up to three teenagers to work together to track down the most banned movie in the world on the Internet. This frantic search to find Movie 43 is the tenuous thread that connects the star- studded short films together, and even more ludicrous, we are told to believe that the discovery of the film will lead to the destruction of civilization. So, they look anyway, using the forty-third rule of the Internet – you can find anything on the Internet if you’re willing to look for it long enough. With appearances from an impressive array of A-list and lauded over talent, Movie 43 had set itself up with a very long way to fall. In a world
where gratuitous gross-out comedy is practically a required clause in most films and social media such as YouTube allows for anyone to create and distribute their own films, perhaps Movie 43 aims to act as a social commentary on the future of film and its impact on civilization. Unfortunately, it lacks the charm and ironic nuances of implausibility – it’s just straight up ridiculous, in most cases boring and tiresomely revolting.
On to a successful display of comedy variety, that didn’t feel like a complete waste of time; for the second year in a row the LOCO Short Comedy Showcase offered up a series of films in a competition that aimed to boast and celebrate
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