Tright here’s a mega-helping of daftness, silliness and goofiness on this wacky British comedy of Ye Olden Medieval Dayes from screenwriter Andy Riley and director Curtis Vowell – and I’ve to say the them there troupe of Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby et al have completed this sort of factor a bit higher with their Horrible Histories spin-off films, however there are some laughs and likability right here, due in some half to a fantastic solid.
Aimee Lou Wooden performs the grotesquely spoilt and entitled Queen Dagan, suggested by slippery Machiavellian courtier Leofwine (Jessica Hynes). Confronted by a Wat Tyler-ish rebellion led by “Humble” Joan (Nicola Coughlan) – who demurely insists on being simply referred to as “Joan” – the Queen finds that her screeching instructions to her guards to grab the intruders don’t have any impact. However she has one surprising good friend, the sensible, discreet attendant Shulmay, performed by the at all times glorious Lolly Adefope, and with the assistance of a humble peasant (Nick Frost), Shulmay would possibly but get her majesty to exile. Paul Kaye – whose merciless red-carpet interviewer Dennis Pennis alter ego just lately cropped up in Morgan Neville’s documentary about Steve Martin – has a cameo right here because the louche and objectionable King Ivarr from overseas lands who would possibly make frequent trigger with the revolutionary upstart “Humble” Joan.
You’ll be able to’t do this sort of comedy with out invoking Monty Python and the Holy Grail at some degree, and it’s inconceivable to look at this with out remembering how bizarre people knew Arthur was a king (“He hasn’t received shit throughout him”). However the distinction is that it is a very female-centred film, with superb comedy turns all spherical.
