In the Loop (Blu-ray)
The fate of the world is on the line.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 12, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Gina McKee & David Rasche | |
Performer: | Mimi Kennedy, Steve Coogan, Chris Addison & Anna Chlumsky | |
Directed by | Armando Iannucci | |
Screenwriting by | Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong & Tony Roche | |
Composition by | Adem Ilhan | |
Produced by | Kevin Loader & Adam Tandy | |
Director of Photography: | Jamie Cairney | |
Executive Production by | Paula Jalfon, David M. Thompson, Simon Fawcett & Christine Langan |
Entertainment Reviews:
This alleged satire, which received four-star treatment from other critics, left me with a ho-hum and sorry feeling that I had wasted an evening seeing it.
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The Atlantic
Rating: 3/5 --
If you only watch a scene or two on the internet, it's hilarious. Watch it all and it's a little tiresome and unconvincing.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 4.5/5 --
It's fantastic stuff, so over-the-top, so scabrous, so bitterly brilliant that you have to assume that, on some level, it rings true.
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Arizona Republic
In direct contrast to the sober realism of Ken Loach's political films, say, it's a bluntly confrontational approach, but it does have the desired effect of exposing the ugly truths lurking behind the satire.
Film Comment
Violently verbose and startlingly impolite, with shovelfuls of obscenities, IN THE LOOP is the most savage, biting political satire on the big screen in years.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
In the Loop has some of the most colorful language you'll find in any piece of cinema, rivaling movies like Kevin Smith's Clerks. And this is a hilarious thing.
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7M Pictures
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [T]his ink-black comedy of war and how to stop worrying and love the spin is devilishly clever....[Iannucci] keeps the dialogue coming fast and furiously funny.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
IN THE LOOP is a fast-paced, lancet-witted ensemble comedy from first-time film director Armando Iannucci, based on his satirical BBC sitcom, THE THICK OF IT. The film tracks the lies, misunderstandings, good and bad intel, and PR blunders that escalate into a full-blown (fictional) crisis in the Middle East over the course of a few days, in a few conversations and meetings, in a few corridors of British and American power. Though played for laughs, the movie demonstrates how the most incidental factors (leaked papers, hastily spoken soundbites) and players (aides, interns, and low-level government officials) can influence the course of history.
The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.
The pitch-perfect cast does a great job with Iannucci's script, improvising just enough to maintain the pseudo-documentary feel of the TV show. Even when the action gets loose and rollicking, the tone is tightly controlled satire, and the humor emerges organically from the situations and relationships at hand. Peter Capaldi, reprising his TV role, is hilarious as a foulmouthed, perpetually het-up Director of Communications for the British Prime Minister. Mimi Kennedy gives a droll but heartfelt performance as an antiwar U.S. diplomat and shares some touching and funny scenes with a more subdued than usual James Gandolfini as a U.S. general with surprising views on war. And Tom Hollander quietly steals the show as the hapless British Secretary of State for International Development whose careless remark in an interview sets off the events that catapult him into deeper waters than he has ever been in.