Bunny and the Bull (15)

YOUR attention, please. Mighty Boosh director Paul King is at great pains to point out that his first film, Bunny And The Bull, is not a Mighty Boosh movie.

Which is odd - cos if anyone else had made this film, I doubt Paul would have taken the same view.

B&B stars a trendy, pasty-faced southern bloke (Edward Hogg) and a hairy Leeds man (Simon Farnaby) who go on a wacky adventure together. One's a loud- mouthed womaniser, the other's a reclusive geek. This ringing any bells?

Yes - if B&B ISN'T a film version of the much-loved-until-it-started- getting-a-bit-cr*p TV comedy series, it's one hell of a knock-off.

Which wouldn't matter, of course, if it was a decent film in its own right.

So, just to be clear - Bunny & The Bull is so boring it made me want to slap my own face off with a tea tray. Stephen (Hogg) lives as a recluse, plagued by flashbacks to a disastrous road trip with best pal Bunny (Farnaby).

This is about seven per cent as funny as it sounds - thanks to a yawning lack of jokes and a rate of progress that would be shamed by the Franz Josef Glacier.

A funny cameo from original Boosh cast member Julian Barrett lifts the film a bit... shortly before a rubbish one from Noel Fielding flattens it.

B&B's one saving grace is the awesome art design. The fairground made from the insides of a clock and the giant, stop-motion- animated bull are both amazing pieces of work - and totally wasted on this thundering great comedy black hole of a movie.

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