Review of Mortdecai (2015) by Nicholasbert — 18 Apr 2015

Mortdecai relies a bit too much on slapstick to be considered witty, and a bit too much on its magnificent (on paper) cast to impress us. After all, the silliness of the act is undeniable, but it's the kind of silliness a child would like.

While there are plenty of British people playing American characters, this time we see two Americans (Johnny Depp and Gwyneth Paltrow) playing two British characters, and their accents were unfortunately not well studied, resulting in an obvious farce and parody of itself that I'm afraid is not intentional at all.