...anyone finding the premise of this film funny would be if they were a Sun-reader who'd perhaps had their brains removed (or is that actually a contradiction in terms bearing in mind the fact that the readers of said tome may not have intellectual faculty in the first place)? However, I digress. The 'hilarious' plot of this short sees an overweight and over-sized gent who has got stuck in his loft and the hapless authorities are doing their best to free him. Cue many a fart-gag and other such side-splitting fare. The character who ends up stuck like a 'pig in a poke' spends much of his time (not surprisingly) stuck, and to save the actor the physical discomfort of having to literally be stuck there for hours on end, the actor's bottom half has been replaced for these sections by a (terrible) body double in the form of a pair of legs attached to a very sizable midriff (at least that's what it looked like to me). However, the director must have forgotten that a normal human being would be struggling and audibly moaning all this time they were stuck not simply dangling there in utter stillness for hours on end. Having said that, the film does have it's compensations in the form of some good performances so the director must be commended on his casting and his ability to get good work out of a not-incredible script. Good use of music too to evoke the 'feel' of certain moments. A broad comedy with over-sized emphasis on 'broad' with a capital 'B'.
