{"id":10755,"date":"2008-09-04T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2008-09-04T11:53:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:53:03","slug":"london-betty-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/london-betty-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"London Betty (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"londonbetty\"<\/a>This is the same dude who did \u201cBikini Bloodbath\u201d? While I\u2019m always up for comedies that dare to be anything but the same old indie comedy crap, Thomas Edward Seymour can never really decide what kind of movie he\u2019s making. At times he strives for Troma gross out comedy, then he tries for inexplicable touching sub-plots and then he\u2019ll go for the bargain basement slapstick that was a lot funnier in his previous film. \u201cLondon Betty\u201d isn\u2019t the worst movie I\u2019ve ever seen, but I was definitely counting the minutes and waiting for it to end.<\/p>\n

Director Seymour can never seem to provide rationale or reasoning for his characters personalities, or the humor. Granted, I don\u2019t expect deep character study from the director behind \u201cBikini Bloodbath,\u201d but there seems to be no reason behind these characters beyond simply filling up the screen. Why does friend Volgo like prostitute Jess? Because it gives him something to do. Why does Billy post random want ads on the town bulletin boards, steal stuff from other people, and call women \u201cwhores\u201d? Because he\u2019s just erratic like that. The only really interesting folks are London Betty, the charming British heroine (played by the insanely beautiful Nicole Lewis) who investigates the mayor and his carnival scam.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also character Sgt. Stone played with great comedic skill by Phil Hall who pulls the weight in pure random sight gags. Seeing a red bra over a hairy chest is funny, I don\u2019t care what anyone says. I\u2019ll say this: It has its high points that keep it consistently entertaining with our characters engaging in gags that aroused a laugh here and there. The 20 dollar an hour lingerie model scenes were funny, and often times I couldn\u2019t believe how much trouble that damn bunny got in to. Not to mention Billy returning the bunny to the wrong woman and demanding she give him twenty bucks also inspired a chuckle. Granted, Seymour is very funny, but there\u2019s never really too much sense in anything he does.<\/p>\n

How could Jess be such a successful prostitute in a small town with no people on the streets? And would there be such a media firestorm over a corrupt mayor in such a small town? The acting is apropos for the unusual comedy that splashes the screen, but the movie is so random I was more confused than entertained. \u201cBikini Bloodbath\u201d was fun, and watching a dude stick a twinkie up his bum is unusual, but that brand of humor won\u2019t always translate well on every genre. There are definite upsides to Seymour’s comedy with good performances from the cast and some laugh out loud scenes, but beyond them, “London Betty” has a hard time deciding on a tone, story, and genre, thus it’s definitely not the best Seymour has ever offered up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the same dude who did \u201cBikini Bloodbath\u201d? While I\u2019m always up for comedies that dare to be anything but the same old indie comedy crap, Thomas Edward Seymour can never really decide what kind of movie he\u2019s making. At times he strives for Troma gross out comedy, then he tries for inexplicable touching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,501,590,703,874],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-l","tag-mystery","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}