I'm not sure where to start on this review. John Landis hasn't made a movie that I enjoyed watching since his comedic masterpieces of the early 80s. Okay, Family for Masters of Horror was pretty enjoyable. I'm also suffering from a mild case of Simon Pegg overexposure. Frankly I wasn't expecting much from reading the description but I was interested enough after the trailer to download it.
Burke and Hare is based on the lives of two rogues who went from rags to riches selling corpses to the Edinburgh medical community in the early 19th Century. Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis play Burke and Hare, respectively, and the movie is really fun to watch. It's quite possibly the funniest period piece based around murder that I have seen in quite sometime (p.s. fuck Burton's Sweeny Todd. Go Lansbury or go home). Pegg and Serkis have a really solid on screen rapport, and their back and forth really pops. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft's script reminds me more of a stage production instead of your standard comedy script. The cast is a veritable who's who of British actors ranging from Tom Wilkinson to Hugh Bonneville to Tim Curry. There are a couple of excellent cameos as well. Landis really knocked it out of the park with Burke and Hare, everything just kind of meshes into a really solid black comedy. The ending stumbles a bit but does not face plant the way most comedies do (movies in general).
I downloaded it from XBOX for the price of a regular movie ticket as an advance view but it's definitely tracking down a copy or seeing in the theater if you get the opportunity.
Burke and Hare is based on the lives of two rogues who went from rags to riches selling corpses to the Edinburgh medical community in the early 19th Century. Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis play Burke and Hare, respectively, and the movie is really fun to watch. It's quite possibly the funniest period piece based around murder that I have seen in quite sometime (p.s. fuck Burton's Sweeny Todd. Go Lansbury or go home). Pegg and Serkis have a really solid on screen rapport, and their back and forth really pops. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft's script reminds me more of a stage production instead of your standard comedy script. The cast is a veritable who's who of British actors ranging from Tom Wilkinson to Hugh Bonneville to Tim Curry. There are a couple of excellent cameos as well. Landis really knocked it out of the park with Burke and Hare, everything just kind of meshes into a really solid black comedy. The ending stumbles a bit but does not face plant the way most comedies do (movies in general).
I downloaded it from XBOX for the price of a regular movie ticket as an advance view but it's definitely tracking down a copy or seeing in the theater if you get the opportunity.
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