'Mortdecai' (2015) – David Koepp.
Writer/Director David Koepp's bright n' breezy, screwball comedy is a consistently effervescing delight, greatly enlivened with one of Johnny Depp's most engagingly eccentric characters, the recently moustachioed, unrepentantly shady art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, a valiantly verbose, self-centred rogue whose adoration of his delightful wife is matched by a no less ardent dislike of policeman Ewan McGregor who all too reluctantly hires the magnificently foppish Mortdecai to assist him in locating a rare, recently stolen artwork, which is the initially sedate catalyst for a genuinely funny, frequently ludicrous Blake Edwards-style, high-octane farce, with the woefully inept, but eminently charming dilettante Mortdecai flamboyantly free-falling through a majestic multitude of pan-continental mishaps, fighting to keep hold of his beloved 'stach as his loyally twin-fisted, enthusiastically libidinous manservant Jock stoically battles with the myriad ill-humoured thugs and multitudinously evil menaces borne of his globe-galavanting master's misguided machinations, and woolly-headed, wonderfully wrong-footed chicanery! 'Mortdecai' is an impeccably acted, perfectly silly old school slapstick, pratfall-filled comedy with a nimble, whimsically witty script, likeable, colourfully rendered performances, all zestfully orchestrated by Koepp who credibly coaxes one of the more entertainingly squirrelly, sublimely screwball, knock-about characters from the delightfully quixotic actor Johnny Depp.
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