{"id":68906,"date":"2022-09-07T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/see-how-they-run-review-agatha-christie-spoof-scampers-through-50s-theaterland-movies\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:17:56","slug":"see-how-they-run-review-agatha-christie-spoof-scampers-through-50s-theaterland-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/see-how-they-run-review-agatha-christie-spoof-scampers-through-50s-theaterland-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"See How They Run review \u2013 Agatha Christie spoof scampers through 50s theaterland |  movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\"><span class=\"dcr-1i2w9iu\"><span class=\"dcr-1jnp7wy\">B<\/span><\/span><span class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">eing threatened, as we are, with an endless string of ropey yet lucrative Agatha Christie movies with Kenneth Branagh phoning in anuzzer rurbeesh turrrn as the Belgian sleuth, this comedy is a relief.  It&#8217;s a likably silly and relentlessly camp whodunnit spoof from screenwriter Mark Chappell, centered on Agatha Christie&#8217;s long-running play The Mousetrap, and an imagined brutal homicide that took place backstage in its London West End theater in 1953 \u2013 when the production was a mere 100 performance old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">A brash Hollywood director played by Adrien Brody, who is planning to bring The Mousetrap to the screen, is found horribly murdered in the costume department.  Sam Rockwell and Saiorse Ronan have a droll sort of platonic police chemistry as the investigating officers: Inspector Stoppard (a nod to Tom Stoppard&#8217;s own spoof meta-mystery The Real Inspector Hound) and his overeager assistant with a silly peaked cap, Constable Stalker, possibly a homage to Tarkovsky or to the former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester John Stalker.  Tim Key (normally Alan Partridge&#8217;s sidekick on the parody show Mid- Morning Matters) is very funny as the glowering Met police commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">The forces of law and order face the usual pasteboard gal\u00e8re of poutingly resentful suspects among the Mousetrap cast \u2013 including young Dickie Attenborough, who really was the Inspector in the original run, and here played very entertainingly by Harris Dickinson.  David Oyelowo is Mervyn Cocker-Norris, the highly strung writer who had been tasked with adapting The Mousetrap for the cinema, Reece Shearsmith (who probably deserved a few more funny lines) is the producer John Woolf \u2013 another real-life character \u2013 and Ruth Wilson is the manager Petula Spencer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"ad8c84b6-a62b-4ecf-ac3e-b79a5b82a047\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\">\n<div data-component=\"youtube-embed\" class=\"dcr-1chxfm\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lAmdRRI1Osg?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" title=\"See How They Run | Official Trailer | In Cinemas September\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">There&#8217;s a very entertaining daftness and theater wherery to See How They Run (the title sounds uncomfortably like Run For Your Wife) as director Tom George takes the same approach to The Mousetrap that Ken Russell took to The Boyfriend: playing up the artificiality of it all .  The comedy is shallow in the right way, and Rockwell&#8217;s bleary world-weariness contrasts nicely with Ronan&#8217;s saucer-eyed idealism.  I think George may also be aiming for a Wes Anderson-ish approach \u2013 although not so much that you&#8217;d notice, and this may just be the presence of Ronan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">This is a disposable film with no pretensions, entirely without the deadly seriousness with which Agatha Christie is now adapted.  I&#8217;d like to see Rockwell and Ronan reunited for a complete new detective franchise, our two cop heroes perhaps encountering Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-19spiha\"><\/p>\n<footer>\n<p><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/>  See How They Run is in cinemas from 9 September.<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being threatened, as we are, with an endless string of ropey yet lucrative Agatha Christie movies with Kenneth Branagh phoning in anuzzer rurbeesh turrrn as the Belgian sleuth, this comedy is a relief. It&#8217;s a likably silly and relentlessly camp whodunnit spoof from screenwriter Mark Chappell, centered on Agatha Christie&#8217;s long-running play The Mousetrap, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/see-how-they-run-review-agatha-christie-spoof-scampers-through-50s-theaterland-movies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">See How They Run review \u2013 Agatha Christie spoof scampers through 50s theaterland |  movies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29394,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rebekah-vardy-loses-wagatha-christie-libel-trial-against-coleen-rooney\/","url_meta":{"origin":68906,"position":0},"title":"Rebekah Vardy loses Wagatha Christie libel trial against Coleen Rooney","date":"July 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rebekah Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, has lost her libel trial against Coleen Rooney. 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