With a good cast set you would think that the actors in "Danny Deckchair" could easily make something memorable and enjoyable. Problem is they go through a paint by number script, where plot twists are visible a mile away, and the characters aren't even given enough dialogue to give them any real personality or distinction. It's as if they were doomed from the start.
An eccentric working class bloke with an ambitious wife, is set to go on a camping vacation when his wife cancels (no doubt from hints in the film that this isn't the first time) cause she wants to take an important business client on a sale. As a result Danny finds out and is distraught thinking his wife is cheating on him after he sees her being driven around by a wealthy sports reporter.
Driven to desolation he starts making a hair brained scheme to fill a deckchair attached with balloons. why? well cause he's Danny. In the end he gets lifted off and essentialy dissapears. Days later he ends up crashing into a rural town where all the locals are all smiley faced, and happens no less to fall in the backyard of an attractive woman..
ho ho... gee I wonder what will happen next. At this point the audience is set to think on autopilot and for good measure just so the director thought we would be led astray there are complimentary scenes of people jumping in a fountain at a big dance, Danny winning the townsfolk over, and a jealous co-worker of the girl who of course starts finding out his identity. gee never would have guessed that.
This is also not a mystery if you've seen the trailer.
It's a shame cause the cast is great but they have litteraly nothing to work with, or have any memorable lines that make their characters stand out and be memorable from all the other cliche/loving find yourself films. Even though this film bills itself as a comedy from the trailer, there are hardly and funny moments in the film, or even any laugh out loud dialogue.
Aside from the trip on how Danny got to this point, that's about the only thing memorable, and it's about 10 minutes of the film that makes it interesting, and another 85 minutes of waiting for something to happen.
An unremarkable movie, can't recomend it.
Rating 5.5 out of 10
An eccentric working class bloke with an ambitious wife, is set to go on a camping vacation when his wife cancels (no doubt from hints in the film that this isn't the first time) cause she wants to take an important business client on a sale. As a result Danny finds out and is distraught thinking his wife is cheating on him after he sees her being driven around by a wealthy sports reporter.
Driven to desolation he starts making a hair brained scheme to fill a deckchair attached with balloons. why? well cause he's Danny. In the end he gets lifted off and essentialy dissapears. Days later he ends up crashing into a rural town where all the locals are all smiley faced, and happens no less to fall in the backyard of an attractive woman..
ho ho... gee I wonder what will happen next. At this point the audience is set to think on autopilot and for good measure just so the director thought we would be led astray there are complimentary scenes of people jumping in a fountain at a big dance, Danny winning the townsfolk over, and a jealous co-worker of the girl who of course starts finding out his identity. gee never would have guessed that.
This is also not a mystery if you've seen the trailer.
It's a shame cause the cast is great but they have litteraly nothing to work with, or have any memorable lines that make their characters stand out and be memorable from all the other cliche/loving find yourself films. Even though this film bills itself as a comedy from the trailer, there are hardly and funny moments in the film, or even any laugh out loud dialogue.
Aside from the trip on how Danny got to this point, that's about the only thing memorable, and it's about 10 minutes of the film that makes it interesting, and another 85 minutes of waiting for something to happen.
An unremarkable movie, can't recomend it.
Rating 5.5 out of 10