2022/12/13

Comfort And Joy - 1984 - UK

Comfort And Joy - 1984 - 5/10

 
Scottish radio announcer gets entangled in ice cream truck feud.
Mister Bunny (no more Mister Softy!) trucks vandalize McCool trucks and vice versa.
In other hands, this might have been a holiday turf war.
Instead, this is weird for the sake of weirdness.
No character development - indeed, even the main character, one Dickie Bird, is barely a sketch.
A “wintery" film, the story is fairly depressing and meanders a lifeless path.
Of course that may well be the point, that the Life path is a dreary myth.
I screened this theatrically when it first came out.  I had no memory of it because it is not memorable.
Quirky, not comedy, and not as charming as I had recalled.