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SEIZE THEM! – Rael Jones
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Seize Them! is a British comedy directed by Curtis Vowell, written by Andy Riley, starring Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan and Sex Education’s Aimee Lou Wood, with a supporting cast of popular British TV comedy actors including Jessica Hynes and Nick Frost from Spaced, Lolly Adefope from Ghosts, and standup star James Acaster. The film is set in the Middle Ages and sees Wood playing the spoiled and entitled Queen Dagan, whose rule is overthrown in a popular revolution led by Humble Joan (Coughlan). Suddenly finding herself a fugitive in the land she once ruled, Dagan joins forces with her newly-unemployed but still loyal lady-in-waiting Shulmay (Adefope), and a peasant named Bobik (Frost) whose personal hygiene standards are somewhat lacking, and together the unlikely trio embarks on a voyage to win back her throne. The humor is silly and goofy and sometimes quite bawdy, and comes across as a sort of cross between Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Horrible Histories, but some of the reviews I have read have praised it for having its heart in the right place, and for being a rare female-centric take on the ‘medieval comedy’ trope. Read more…
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