Day Of The Sirens

Starring: Rik Mayall, Saeed Jaffrey Director: Ray Brady Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 11th August, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Always great to watch a FILM that doesnt centre around the streets of LA with in jokesEabout life in the states, as if the rest of the world should give a toss. I think the makers of this film were brave enough to give it a go .

The subject matter is this films saving grace, you find yourself not wanting to look away in case you miss any of the main, shocking story-line.

HoweverE Get yourself a few fresh kids from your local drama school along with a few old hams wholl work for nothing, steal some childs homework for a script & I imagine this film is was what it would look like.

Its a real shame, the bad parts of this film are really bad, & its not the fault of the budget. With every scene you can almost visualise the drama students dressed in black, stuck in some damp church hall somewhere improvising.. yahEN$ Some of the acting reminded me of a Christmas production at the local remand centre & the sets looked like the borrowed rooms they obviously were.

The budget was fine , but with a little more care & attention to detail & perhaps a good 40mins cut out this could have been a really good film.

So all-in-all if its choice between an over-hyped Hollywood epic or some teenage rubbish normally seen on the tele, then give this film a go, although its ten times better with the fast forward handy,

Rik Mayall is a British comedian & actor. He is well known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson & was one of members of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. When he was three, Mayall & his parents moved to Redditch, Worcestershire, where he spent the rest of his childhood. He studied drama at Manchester University & gained fame by appearing at The Comedy Store in the Eighties along with Edmondson. They starred as The Dangerous Brothers, supposedly a couple of naive but anarchic daredevils & would perform comedy stunts on stage, often involving the likes of setting each other on fire. They effectively brought slapstick to the alternative comedy scene, albeit in a typically extreme fashion. A role as Rik in The Young Ones sitcom, also in the Eighties, ensured wide public acclaim. The series was written by Mayall with long-standing friend Ben Elton & Lise Mayer. Additional material was provided by anarchist comedian & actor Alexei Sayle. Posters Of Believe Nothing

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