A Film with Me in It (2010)

The idea is fantastic. A bunch of people keep having deadly accidents in the apartment of a broke wannabe-actor. Now he has to avoid looking like a deranged serial killer while the bodies start piling up and his best friend tries to write a movie around the whole thing. Tucker & Dale Versus Evil uses one half of that plot, and it is hilarious. 7 Psychopaths uses the other half, and it's brilliant. One would think that a black-humoured British amalgam of both ideas, starring Dylan Moran of Black Books and Shaun of the Dead would be even better. One would be very, very mistaken. The first wasted opportunity is casting Dylan Moran not as the lead, but as the grumpy alcoholic screenwriter friend who plays second fiddle to Mark Doherty. Doherty is unable to make his character likable, or what happens to him intriguing. Instead, he sleepwalks through the movie like a robot telling a joke. The next big flaw is the soundtrack, or lack thereof. Combined with the bad pacing, you never get a sense of events escalating. Instead, it's a string of the same thing happening over and over again until the film ends with an unlikely and unsatisfying denouement, while the subplots go nowhere. So much wasted potential. This could have been a sleeper hit with a cult following. And it turned out to be bargain bin fodder that's just not worth watching. At all. Stay away.

Well if a good romp in some dark territory sounds like fun then this is your movie, def low budget, but the cast more than makes up for it as any good dark comedy classics will prove.After a series of set-up albeit, believable accidents happen. The pair, comprised of a compulsive drunk, gambling, writer and a dim witted, down on his luck actor. Together they must use their skills to avoid the jail time that will surely ensue, after they make the situation progressively worse.I'll give it doesn't take too much to figure out most of it but the trip was worth the ticket cost and seeing some of the cast from Shaun of the Dead working was a great surprise and a joy.If you enjoy dark humor and the witty humor of the the Irish/English then you'll enjoy this one no matter the side of the world you hail from.

Actually with a title like that and after the first few minutes you will catch the drift. The question if you will like were this is going or not, will depend on how much you like "dark humor". If you have seen quite a few of those movies, than you might anticipate quite a few things that will happen.Still it is done very good, many jokes are really exciting and the movie ends very well. One of the things that stuck out though, was the fact that this movie is Irish. Which means the guys playing this have a very unusual accent (for me and I'm sure for quite a few other guys), which also means, that I had some trouble getting every little thing that was said.The (inevitable) American Remake will come surely, but before that, make sure to watch this original!

I'm personally a big fan of Dylan Moran. His stand-up makes me laugh, I enjoy the movies he's been in, and I like his couldn't-be-arsed exterior. Overall, I think he's a pretty cool guy.But, for me, this movie was a bit of a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, I did get a couple of giggles out of it, but I felt like it could have been better. It was fairly good, but it could have been excellent if it had been worked on a bit more, teased out a little.The opening and the introduction to the characters was sloppy, which took the edge off for me (call me old-fashioned, but I like to know who everyone is before launching into all the plot twists and whodunits). Also, the tone at the beginning is constantly changing from funny to serious, which leaves the audience unsure of how to react when the various characters start getting offed. Should we be upset? Laughing? Afraid? So, I thought A Film With Me In It was a good film. It just needed a little tightening and trimming of the fat. Then, it could be perfect.