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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Mad Cows
87 minutes (15) EV
Director: Sara Sugarman
review by Rob Marshall
Anna Friel and Joanna Lumley star in this appallingly unfunny comedy based on Kathy
Lette's bestseller. Friel is the Australian single mum abandoned by thick-but-ambitious
beau, and locked away for shoplifting. Lumley (whose typically studied performance is
the best thing in the whole film) is Friel's best friend, a once-wealthy tart (with
bottle in one hand and tote bag in the other, she's a less acerbic version of her
character in Absolutely Fabulous), now reduced to gold-digger since the Lloyds
crash, who helps Friel smuggle her baby out of prison and subsequently discovers she
really does have maternal instincts. Rude in that crude way of unsophisticated female
humour this is a turnoff for male viewers and probably most females, too, I suspect.
Mohammed Al Fayed has a cameo as Harrod's doorman, and although I admit that the
ostentatious Buckingham Hotel (it 'used to be a palace') is mildly witty, it's a
frightfully dated joke. The rest, unfortunately, veers from utterly boring slapstick
to frantically paced chases vaguely reminiscent of TV's Benny Hill. Perhaps
this would be more enjoyable after a few beers, but I honestly doubt it.
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