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03/24/06
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
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Reviews Counted:117
Fresh:106
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: Though Laurence Sterne's novel was considered more or less impossible to successfully adapt to film, director Michael Winterbottom has done it in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, by making movie about the making of the movie. Stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon add madcap, knowing performances to the mix, and the result is a fun, postmodern romp, before there was any modern romp to post.
Theatrical Release:Jan 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,110,155
Synopsis: Barely stopping to breathe between productions, outrageously prolific director Michael Winterbottom follows his graphically intimate 9 SONGS with the raucously entertaining TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK... [More]
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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Reviews for Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Rest assured, you don't have to know a thing about the Shandy novel -- let alone having read it -- to have a lot of fun with this Cock and Bull Story.
03/24/06
Despite its source in Sterne, Winterbottom's whimsy bulls it way past modernism and right into postmodern thievery, especially in its slavish quoting of Fellini's 8 1/2.
03/23/06
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03/18/06
The film's playful, subversive and selectively self-referential sensibility is equal parts blarney and bluster, and has the endearing quality of a tall tale told tongue in cheek.
03/16/06
Yet here it is, the first -- dare we use the term that's all but been stripped of meaning by journalistic hacks -- masterpiece of 2006.
03/16/06
Never picked up any steam to run with its **** and bull story.
03/11/06
[Michael Winterbottom's] goofy, messy version of Tristram Shandy puts the Fellini back in 'Fellini-esque.'
03/10/06
A wildly imaginative foray into spirited comic anarchy.
03/10/06
A Cock and Bull Story is a grand giggle of a film, well worth your time and money and a game well played for the audience.
03/10/06
A hilariously clever picture about the making of a movie that no one will have the slightest interest in. For an experiment about an experiment, it's entirely too much fun.
03/10/06
Top CriticThis British import is a good-natured comedy featuring several laugh-out-loud sequences.
03/10/06
Coogan is adept at playing himself as a total jerk ... and his performance here is scathingly funny.
03/10/06
(Tongue-in) cheeky and rambling, much like the voluminous tome that inspired it.
03/10/06
The playful British Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is a comedy for anyone fascinated by the movies.
03/09/06
It's official: Michael Winterbottom makes the best cinematic whatchamacallits around.
03/09/06
A film that will be enormously appealing to fans of British costume dramas, fans of movies about the making of movies and devotees of the likes of Peter Greenaway and Charlie Kaufman.
03/04/06
Probably the best-known but-I-digress novel in English literature, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has inspired Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, surely the best but-I-digress movie this side of Adaptation.
03/02/06
Top CriticTristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story brims with humor, from a Monty Python-type take on British colonialism to a winking send-up of the film's star, Steve Coogan.
03/02/06
Top CriticA highly amusing combination period film and mockumentary.
02/24/06
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