…A Bit of Tom Jones

Rating: 100%


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Length:

90 minutes

Review Format:

DVD

Year:

2009

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Predominant Genre:

Comedy

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Premiss:

Mysterious woman offers to sell the severed penis of Wales’ greatest vocal entertainer; believing he can make a fortune from it.

Themes:

Alienation | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Friendship | Gynophobia | Identity | Loneliness | Love | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nationality | Nostalgia | Original Sin | Pornography | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Sex | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | The State | Stereotyping | White culture

Similar to:

Do you have the balls?

An Englishman, A Welshman & An Irishman…

Summary: Weird, imaginative, unpredictable & tasteless - but very funny.

Witty and hilarious movie about White sexuality; brimming with what-lies-beneath the placid and joyless surface of White society: A bit like a modern-day version of Under Milk Wood - but without the poetry.

The premiss is ludicrous, but reveals the stupidity of most of the characters - in the most effective way. Potshots are also taken at the alleged sexual-inadequacy of the English and the supposed criminality of the Irish, by Welshmen possessing difficulties-with-reality of their own.

Eve MYLES is brilliant as the rational girlfriend surrounded by men with limited intellects with whom she seems to be stuck. Jonathan OWEN and Roger EVANS are perfect as partners-in-crime who have no real idea what they are doing, yet seem likely to get away with it.

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