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May 12, 2017 · In Terry Jones’ “Absolutely Anything,” a quartet of trigger-happy aliens leave it up to the morality of one human to see if Earth is worth not eradicating. If said individual does good with the temporary power to do, well, absolutely anything, we’re all saved.
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By Chris Tilly
Posted: Aug 13, 2015 4:15 pm
You probably liked Absolutely Anything better when it was called Bruce Almighty. The film combines the comedic talents of Simon Pegg, Robin Williams and the Monty Python team, but in telling a tale that’s incredibly similar to the 2003 movie in which Jim Carrey was granted God-like powers, it invites comparisons that aren’t flattering.
The central conceit is exactly the same, though here rather than the actual God making a man god-like, it’s a group of malevolent aliens doing the bestowing.
Calling themselves the ‘Intergalactic Council of Superior Beings’ and voiced by Pythons John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and the film’s co-writer and director Terry Jones, the aliens have decided to terminate Earth, but before their ‘Destruction Order’ can be carried out, they must enact due legal process.
They do this by choosing an earthling at random, giving them supreme power, and if said person proves their worth, leaving the planet be.
Terry Jones could have done absolutely anything with this high-concept set-up but chose to go down the romantic comedy route. Which would be fine if the jokes were better, but they aren't. The result is a loosely knitted together series of vignettes, some of which raise titters, but the majority of which elicit groans.
- Chris Tilly
ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING is a sci-fi comedy that explores just how hard it would be to have the entire world at your fingertips. Terry Jones directs this tale in which a group of aliens (voiced by Jones and his fellow Monty Python alums John Cleese , Eric Idle , and Terry Gilliam ) decides to test humanity to see whether Earth is worth saving or ...
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- Sandie Angulo Chen
- Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Robin Williams
Absolutely Anything: Directed by Terry Jones. With Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle. A group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.
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- Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Terry Jones
- 2017-05-12
Aug 11, 2015 · ‘Absolutely Anything’: Film Review. Simon Pegg plays a schoolteacher with God-like powers in this sci-fi comedy, which also features vocal performances from the Monty Python team...
Aug 12, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Absolutely Anything’. Decades in the making, Monty Python vet Terry Jones' lame sci-fi satire squanders the contributions of top comic talents — including the late Robin Williams....
