Film review - The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (15) (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Film review - The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (15)

It's the end of the world as Royston Vasey knows it. There's a storm a-brewing over this deeply dysfunctional community and the omens are not good.

Reverend Bernice (Shearsmith) confides in restart officer Pauline (Pemberton) of an ancient prophecy that foretells the complete destruction of the village in a fiery inferno. The reason for Armageddon is obvious.

The comedy troupe known as The League Of Gentlemen has forsaken its fictional creations, condemning the rural community and its deranged denizens to oblivion.

All of Royston Vasey's most popular residents are present and politically incorrect.

The film opens in glorious fashion with a fabulous mobile phone gag it's so good, in fact, that the writers recycle it about half an hour later.

It's downhill from here with disappointingly few belly laughs, and not a great deal of chuckles, as reality and fiction collide head-on.

5/10

Stephen Webb