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Midsummer Carnival Sun 22 June From Channel 4’s The Sketch Show
TIM VINE
Gilmorehill G12, 9 University Ave Sun 22 June
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Rock star dreams
One night millionaire rock star Paul Kerr (formerly of the appallingly dressed 805 band the Love Rats) gets pissed and drives his motorbike through an upstairs window of his mansion. He survives but gets sectioned in a mental home. When an old girlfriend Rebecca (Jemma Redgrave) reads about him in the newspaper she has to confront the truth that her 16-year- old daughter Olivia (Charlotte Church) is his daughter too. Through a series of twists and turns and a lot of help from Olivia’s rockabilly grandfather (Joss Ackland) the family begins to come together.
I’ll be There is the directorial debut of the boy from Cumbernauld. Mr Bing Hitler aka Craig Ferguson, who is now almost as well known in the States as he is here thanks to his tenure on the remarkably unfunny Drew Carey Show. His judgement seems to have been affected by the experience. This once sharp and occasionally acerbic comedian now seems only interested in appealing to the lowest common denominator audience.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with such ambitions (the film has already picked up a handful of audience awards at numerous film festivals) but the clearly compromised script by Ferguson and Philip McGrade is far too conventional to really register as anything particularly special. Still, it's not half as smug and self-satisfied as the other big Britcom released this year, The One and Only, but it does manage to meander its harmless way to being highly forgettable. Perhaps the sole noteworthy fact is that it's the young Welsh diva’s film debut. (Paul Dale)
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Turning back time