Released on: 2006
Rating: 5.80
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Will Ferrell drops by The Office as Michael Scott prepares to leave
Ferrell's familiarity with Steve Carell was palpable, writes Hadley Freeman, but so was an itchiness in his new role
And all too soon, he was finished. That's what she said.
On Thursday night, Michael Scott – the double entendre-dropping boss played by Steve Carell on the hugely successful Us version of The Office – started to take leave of the show.
To ease the trauma for the 7.3m Us viewers who watch it every week, not to mention its cast members, who have publicly admitted to concern about the show's future without Carell, the producers hired a new boss to take over as manager.
Scott introduced Deangelo Vickers to the staff at Dunder Mifflin, and he soon revealed himself to be boorish, cruel, and in possession of an inexplicable fondness for terrible paintings of deserts. On the plus side, he is played by Will Ferrell.
The original UK version of The Office ran for only 14 episodes,»
- Hadley Freeman
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Norwegian Ninja – DVD Review
Norwegian Ninja is a spoof action flick about a band of secret government agents who spread terror around Europe in order to remind citizens about the constant threat of communism.
Based very loosely on the real life case of Arne Treholt, a man convicted of espionage and treason in the 1980s against the Norwegian state, it has been re-imagined as a sort of absurdist historical account or a secret, albeit, fictive history.
It’s a wacky concept shot in a retro cult cinema style and while that raises a smile it’s nowhere near as funny or smart as it thinks it is. In fact, the whole enterprise is rather dull.
Shot in a variety of ways – from documentary to mock t.v. reports - the narrative flails about with very little momentum. Trey Parker and Matt Stone set out make fun of world politics in their iconic Team America: World Police.»
- Martyn Conterio
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