8/28/20 - Get Duked (2020) - 4/10

A juvenile Trainspotting-lite via Edgar Wright flick is what it appeared first as. Conceptually that and it kills. It has tons of potential, but it’s execution flounders. Not visually, but it lacks in the dialogue and humor department. That is a murderous combo because a comedy without the funny is a fail.

If you took The Hunt/Most Dangerous Game, but made it a comedy in the Scottish highlands, this is what you would get. There was a hint of modern commentary, with the “pedo” royals hunting the urchin rifraff  and the bumbling stereotyping police, there is a whisper of discussion, but it gets drowned out in the rabbit poop tripping and farmland hip hop. In all honesty, because the actors were pretty good, it just needed an injection of raucousness or maybe even some more crass elements. It is just too bland and unsatisfying in the end; like a hot chocolate packet without water.