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Richard E. Grant’s supreme tool box of comic skills brings his follow-up to “Withnail and I” to an explosive boil.
The film’s hot comic
condition equals the gargantuan actual boil that grows into a talking head on the neck of Grant’s British ad exec character Dennis Bagley.
Director/screenwriter Bruce Robinson’s second collaboration with Richard E. Grant builds on their impressive working relationship to push the film into heretofore unknown comic boundaries.
Dennis Begley is on a hard deadline to create an ad campaign for a pimple cream. His supportive wife Julia (Rachel Ward), is use to nursing Dennis through such episodes of writer’s block, but this one marks an especially dark transition.
“How To Get Ahead In Advertising” is foremost a prescient satire predicting with uncanny accuracy, our modern cataclysmic social dilemma relating to such things as guns, cell phones, cars, and social media.
Nothing is true when everything is a lie.
Times have changed, nothing is permitted now.
Outrageous laughs spring from this classic movie.
Slapstick, sight gags, rapid-fire dialogue, and ingenious comic sequences allow Richard E. Grant to levitate his performance like some otherworldly creature.
No amount of description can sufficiently prepare you for this movie. It’s one of those where the less you know going in, the better time you’ll have watching it for the first time.
Is “How To Get Ahead In Advertising” a one-of-a-kind satirical masterpiece?
Yes, yes it is.
Rated R. 90 mins.
