he is very funny about parenting teens, one of whom is barely recognisable beneath his hoodie and floppy fringe: "To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night."At 42, Bishop is neither young enough to wear white trainers, nor old enough to be his own father's equal. But he realises a deeply held ambition when he is summoned to play for Liverpool FC in a charity match. The footage, set to Elvis's music, will be loved tender, and loved true, by all football fans, and all those loth to relinquish their childhood dreams.
The movie is funny, but it's more than funny, it's exhilarating. It opens with what looks like a standard studio cartoon (Mother goes shopping and leaves Roger Rabbit to baby-sit her little brat, who immediately starts causing trouble). This cartoon itself, seen apart from the movie, is a masterpiece; I can't remember the last time I laughed as hard at an animated short. But then, when a stunt goes wrong and the cartoon "baby" stalks off the set and lights a cigar and tells the human director to go to hell, we know we're in a new and special universe.
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