Moon Dogs (15.)
Directed by Philip John.
Starring Jack Parry-Jones, Christy O'Donnell, Tara Lee, Chris Donald, Tam Dean Burn and Dennis Lawson. 93 mins.
There must be some nice, agreeable people in Scotland, but on a trip from the Shetlands to Glasgow this coming of age road movie joolznjim comedy dramary fails to bump into any of them. At the start, the tale of two miss-matched step brothers, laddish Welsh Michael (Parry-Jones) and quiet introverted alt folk musician Thor (O'Donnell) is quite engaging but it all goes downhill when they meet Caitlin (Lee) a gaelic fantasy figure who is rebellious and free and can have sex without being in love.
The film wants to be a little bit of everything – breezy, shocking, touching, comic – but its abrupt changes in tone make it hard to commit to anything in it. Of course it could be that I had a bad case of granddad-trying-to-watch-BBC3, but beneath its youthful irreverence, it's actually incredibly traditional, just not very competently traditional.
Directed by Philip John.
Starring Jack Parry-Jones, Christy O'Donnell, Tara Lee, Chris Donald, Tam Dean Burn and Dennis Lawson. 93 mins.
There must be some nice, agreeable people in Scotland, but on a trip from the Shetlands to Glasgow this coming of age road movie joolznjim comedy dramary fails to bump into any of them. At the start, the tale of two miss-matched step brothers, laddish Welsh Michael (Parry-Jones) and quiet introverted alt folk musician Thor (O'Donnell) is quite engaging but it all goes downhill when they meet Caitlin (Lee) a gaelic fantasy figure who is rebellious and free and can have sex without being in love.
The film wants to be a little bit of everything – breezy, shocking, touching, comic – but its abrupt changes in tone make it hard to commit to anything in it. Of course it could be that I had a bad case of granddad-trying-to-watch-BBC3, but beneath its youthful irreverence, it's actually incredibly traditional, just not very competently traditional.