Buenos dias...goodbye pet

50 minutes in and Alien Autopsy is one of the freshest and most original comedies I've ever seen. Declan Donnely is a natural comedian. He's got the face, the voice and the actions of a great comedian. Ant, not so good, but that's why he's the tight-arsed serious one in the film. The support cast includes Omid Djalili and Jimmy Carr, both in good and funny roles.

The story is about a faked alien autopsy from Roswell made by Ant and Dec (Forget the character names, they play Ant and Dec) after a geniune copy of the Roswell autopsy is damaged in transit. Naturally, it being British, it contains a gangster character who happens to be Eastern European who threatens the main characters, but they overcome him.

There is a problem with the film in its use of swearing. This could easily have appealed to the whole family, there are gory scenes that could have been cut but are also set up as completely fake so it looks no worse than cutting into fresh meat. It's brand of comedy is very British in that there are moments of slapstick but also idiotic and simple characters. The title of this post itself is a line spoken when Nana is haggling with an Argentian over the phone, and it had me in stitches.

It is not a buddy comedy as you'd expect from Ant and Dec but it is a film of a group of friends overcoming adversity, and it is warm and funny. My favourite thing about the film has to be the use of 'spanner' as an insult.

It's just finished and it's damn good. It's only rated at about 4.5 out of 10 on imdb, and I'm not sure why. I really enjoyed it. It moves forward in section after section and flows well, the story unfolds but it could really have been longer. There are 'twists' that are tossed and turned in about 2 minutes, and are pretty obvious, but I feel if they were drawn out as big story points then it would have been appalling, but it's short and snappy feel keeps it easy to follow and easy to laugh at.

I was blissfully unaware this was an actual true story, and that Ray Santilli is a real person (That's Dec's character) who claims he really did have the genuine footage but then faked it when it was destroyed. He still also claims there is a bit of restored footage but it has never been seen. I wanna see it, me like.