Yesterday it was time again to go to the movies with friends. For that occasion we chose the most recent Johnny Depp movie: Mortdecai
Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) is an english aristocrat, who specializes in art. And with specialize I mean he does illegal deald with shady people. Still or perhaps because of that he is almost bankrupt and he's looking for a way to keep up his live style together with his estate, wife (Gweyneth Paltrow) and butler Jock (Paul Bettany). So it's nice of fate that a famous Goya painting has been stolen and MI5 (Ewan McGregor) wants him to help them retrieve it again - for a finder's fee of course.
So now starts the hunt across the globe, while Charlie is doing his things and his butler has to rescue him from the resulting desasters. But his wife is also trying to help and soon the trio is closing in on the thieves.
The movie is - like a friend of mine correctly stated - a remake of the classical Pink Panther films. A sappy investigator (Clouseau/Mortdecai) tries to solve a crime while his butler (Cato/Jock) receives all the beating and has to help his master solve the mysteries as well. There's also a quite striking similarity between Clouseau and Mortdecai - thanks to the moustache.
The story is quite existing but the jokes are one-sided. Most of the time they are about Charlie's freshly grown moustache - which everyone including his wife hates - Jock's amorous adventures during the investigation and Charlie's failing marriage, while an old admirer of hers (Ewan McGregor) is waiting for his chance. Inbetween there's some story as well, but this is quickly interrupted by the next joke of one of the above categories.
Conclusion: In theory I liked the film, although I was hoping for another kind of humour. Johnny Depp does a great job playing a helpless aristorcat - not unlike his Jack Sparrow role - but this kind of humour didn't quite get me. For me this isn't a movie you have to see in the cinema and it's more like very shallow entertainment.
Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) is an english aristocrat, who specializes in art. And with specialize I mean he does illegal deald with shady people. Still or perhaps because of that he is almost bankrupt and he's looking for a way to keep up his live style together with his estate, wife (Gweyneth Paltrow) and butler Jock (Paul Bettany). So it's nice of fate that a famous Goya painting has been stolen and MI5 (Ewan McGregor) wants him to help them retrieve it again - for a finder's fee of course.
So now starts the hunt across the globe, while Charlie is doing his things and his butler has to rescue him from the resulting desasters. But his wife is also trying to help and soon the trio is closing in on the thieves.
The movie is - like a friend of mine correctly stated - a remake of the classical Pink Panther films. A sappy investigator (Clouseau/Mortdecai) tries to solve a crime while his butler (Cato/Jock) receives all the beating and has to help his master solve the mysteries as well. There's also a quite striking similarity between Clouseau and Mortdecai - thanks to the moustache.
The story is quite existing but the jokes are one-sided. Most of the time they are about Charlie's freshly grown moustache - which everyone including his wife hates - Jock's amorous adventures during the investigation and Charlie's failing marriage, while an old admirer of hers (Ewan McGregor) is waiting for his chance. Inbetween there's some story as well, but this is quickly interrupted by the next joke of one of the above categories.
Conclusion: In theory I liked the film, although I was hoping for another kind of humour. Johnny Depp does a great job playing a helpless aristorcat - not unlike his Jack Sparrow role - but this kind of humour didn't quite get me. For me this isn't a movie you have to see in the cinema and it's more like very shallow entertainment.
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