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This TV series by writer and comic-book author Neil Gaiman unfortunately
did not get the quality treatment it deserved. While Gaiman wanted it to
be shot on film, the limited budget forced him to contend with shooting
on video, cutting some of his original concepts, and putting up with
less than ideal special effects. Still, despite this and other cheap
decisions made by the production company (like the Beast of London being
... a cow), the series is still striking and compelling because of
Gaiman's extraordinary writing. With a blend of modernism, magic, and
mythology, Gaiman brings to life the world of NeverWhere, the place
where those who have slipped between the cracks of this world find
themselves. Average everyday working-joe Richard finds himself dragged
into this world when he chooses to help a young woman named Door, who is
running for her life. Suddenly unseen by the rest of the world, Richard
must find Door and help her in order to regain his life. It's a
twisted, dark fairytale of a series, with a complicated world all its
own where there are rules to be followed, rules to be broken, and
dangerous advesaries at every turn. The show is especially a delight
for anyone familiar with London, for Gaiman utilizes actual places,
such as abandoned subway stations, giving their strange and unique
names new (and also old) meanings.
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This film is a fun, slapstick-styled comedy that avoids taking jokes too
far and getting annoying, which is truly an art unto itself. The story
revolves around two thieves who find they've been set up by their
gangster boss to be taken out after they help out with robbing a Triad
group, making off with their ill-gotten drug-dealing profits. Taking
their lives into their own hands, Brian and Charlie decide to literally
take the money and run. But with gangsters to the left of them and cops
to the right there is nowhere else to go except, yes you guessed it, to
a nunnery! Disguising themselves as visiting nuns, they managed to hide
from both the law and the lawless, and naturally wacky hijinks ensue.
It's silly and foolish and delightfully funny. If you want something
light and fluffy and British comedy is your thing, then this is a
definite must-see.
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