Review of Bunny and the Bull (2009) by Jake N — 01 Sep 2011

While I enjoyed its story, set design, cinematography, visual inventiveness, performances, and dialogue, it suffered from some tonal issues that are hard to ignore. It plays like a cross between a feature length Mighty Boosh episode (Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding actually have smalls supporting roles, and one of the main characters of the film is actually the actor who played Julian Barrett's doppelganger in an episode of The Mighty Boosh), and a Michelle Gondry/Wes Anderson-esque indie flick; two great tastes that don't necessarily taste great together.

The two main characters -- being essentially really similar in both appearance and personality to the characters from The Mighty Boosh -- seem to not really belong in the film during its more dramatic and "indie" moments.

There are some really great darkly British and comedic scenes that they flourish in, but then when the quirkiness and gloom sweeps in, it's jarring and definitely unsettling to see these two characters be a part of it.

I appreciate what they were trying to do, and to their credit they do a whole of things well, but for the most part it seems like two scripts merged together.