12 In A Box (12A) 95 mins *
In 2007, a pre-primetime
Miranda Hart was fourteenth-billed in a shambling am-dram fiasco about old
schoolfriends reunited (very Noughties) to bicker over a dying billionaire’s
fortune. Retrieved from landfill, it’s now being remarketed on Hart’s name –
even though her screen time amounts to five minutes, during which she’s
hog-tied, described as “a big ugly bird”, and never once permitted to topple
over. Everything else falls hopelessly flat in another trudge around that cosy
Britcom universe where henpecked husbands, mistaken sexual identity and the
repetition of the word “willy” are considered inherently hilarious. Refunds
would appear inevitable.
12 in a Box opens in selected cinemas today, ahead of its DVD release on April 1.
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