Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee Reviews
Little White Lies
A fun five day feature from one of Britain's finest filmmakers.
Sunday Times (UK)
Think Spinal Rap. A likeable and sporadically funny film, it's rather slight for a theatrical release.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Observer [UK]
Considine is outrageously funny and never steps out of character, but the film hardly adds up to an evening's entertainment.
Financial Times
The film has about as much sense of structure as - well, as Thirst, but I laughed a fair bit.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
Some British film-makers never give up and Shane Meadows is one of them. He'd make a movie of a custard pie if he could. And generally there's entertainment to be had from even his most hand-to-mouth efforts.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Empire Magazine
A monumental mockumentary from Brit cinema's premier director/actor double act. True, daft, emotional, hilarious.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticAn endearing effort with enough heart to fill the gaps where the gags dry up or fall flat.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film4
Jaw-bustingly funny stuff, uproarious, delightful and unexpectedly touching, containing more laugh-out-loud moments than most Hollywood comedies twice the length.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Times [UK]
Considine's performance, for instance, is an enthralling piece of improvisation that carries the entire movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
The film is slight, but there's enough there for Meadows to create a plausible narrative arc with solid laughs along the way.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Telegraph
A warm and improvised comedy that will appeal to anyone with a penchant for jokes about Beth Ditto.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
Largely improvised and inevitably a little rambling and loosely structured but there are some genuinely funny moments along the way.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Digital Spy
Shane Meadows's movies are always brimming full of originality and verve and Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee is arguably his most daring effort so far.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
A comedy miracle that is the mirthful match for any so-called fun-fest that has emerged from Hollywood this year.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Filmstar Magazine
The plot is threadbare and the style is knockabout, but the improvisation, especially that of Considine, lends it an energy and spirit that's hard to resist.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Uncut Magazine [UK]
It's the dynamic between the crass, artless Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee, his quiet, overweight partner who's capable of delivering brilliant raps, that wins here.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ViewLondon
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee is a superbly directed, brilliantly acted mock-doc that's laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Scotsman
Considine reveals himself to be a fine comic actor here and, while the fly-on-the-wall format is no longer fresh, the emphasis on generating actual laughs, as well as pathos, is.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The gags are either too inside, lazily paced, or simply not funny.
Reel Film Reviews
Affable yet thoroughly forgettable...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Total Film
It may just be an extended short, but Meadows' latest still crams in enough laughs to fill a comedy twice its size. Considine, meanwhile, brings his character to such exhilarating life you can't tell where he ends and Donk begins.
