of favorites. If you enjoy goofy comedies from the likes of Mel Brooks, you will truly enjoy Mortdecai.

understand or have had exposure to UK style humour you will likely understand this movie. If you do "get it" you'll laugh and have a good time. It's just not made for the typical U.S. sense of humour.

all basically "Pirates" done over, this is the movie to jump back on board. Depp's Mortdecai is about as far from Jack Sparrow as he's been able to satisfyingly do since the horrible Chocolate Factory attempt some years back, with wayyy better humor.Sure, the jokes are redundant, but you know what other movies have redundant jokes? Every male-centric movie the 20-something "bros" commenting on here probably like. Anchorman? One giant sexist joke. Pacific Rim? An anime on film. ALL of Family Guy? Basically a handful of sexist jokes told over and over again to butter Seth MacFarland's bread and hookers for the last 15 years. There is NO popular comedy that does not repeat its jokes to the point of inanity. Unless you're an antisocial white 20-something male, you will find something to like about this movie. Don't let these commenters scare you away- they're just biased and procrastinating from their quarter-life crises, misappropriated white guilt, and school exams.Like I said, I laughed through the whole film. No one went to the showing I went to because no one is giving this movie a chance cough- thanks, biased white millennial men of the internet , but please believe me, it's great. The people who worked at the theater even came in to watch towards the end. It's the funniest movie available right now, and with a lot of great movies out there that's saying something.The mustache gag literally, gag is perfect in its cheesiness, Depp hits the character of Mortdecai spot on, Jock is a hilarious "manservant," and even typically irritating Gwyneth is perfect in the role of Johanna. If you're also tired of bleak, depressing films and just want something lighthearted and fun without the heavy and unapologetic sexism of most popular comedies these days, give this movie a chance. Car jokes, 90s jokes, old stereotypes you forgot about, British jokes, American jokes, rich people jokes, a smaller-than-usual dose of sexism, drunk jokes... all the jokes that get lost under today's "bro" comedies, that prefer to focus on women and insults directed at women for any number of reasons.You know why so many dudes are hating on this film? Olivia Munn's in it, but you don't see her boobs. That's literally all there is to hate from a straight male/lesbian perspective.Now if you're a NORMAL person, and want an entertaining, underrated film, don't want anything desperately tragic or full of torture, and CAN make do WITHOUT seeing Olivia Munn's boobs for a night, this is the movie for you. A+. A++. I'd pay the $11 a seat all over again.

the Caribbean franchise. So when I saw how he played Mortdecai's character, I enjoyed it to no end.

to this movie...it deserves better reviews

like a comedy team. All the other supporting cast like Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor. Don't go in this expecting much, just a fun time.

Indeed, as a massive fan of The Fast Show he appeared in the final episode I'm fairly sure that Mr Depp had some influence in securing the comic genius of Paul Whitehouse to play Spinoza. After reading the host of bad reviews I entered the cinema with some trepidation, but was rewarded with a well-written, smoothly-directed, fast-paced concoction which ticked plenty of boxes for me; I did start to wonder if I was watching the same film that some other reviewers watched. Perhaps the humour was just "too English" for some of our friends in the "far colonies"! Please don't be put off by the large number of bad reviews; Mortdecai was well worth the price of entry!

is his "pipe and hat", or "whip and hat", if you prefer, his trademark appearance set. It is fairly obvious that the screenwriters and director tried to reference the opening scene with Temple Of Doom. Lord Mortdecai is a kind of Indiana Jones in the art business, finding lost paintings e.t.c., minus the naive US perspective of a morally right hero. He is a British Lord after all, thus corrupted, pompous and easily sold out to the highest bidder, due to personal debts created by the excesses of luxury and pretentious/decandant aristocratic way of life. Anyway, enough with the U.S. haters, that simply don't get it. In order of an American getting it, the dialogues should have been filled with gangsta rap slang..Then and only then, the joke would be obvious. Now, with this posh dialect and witty selections of words like using a thesaurus they should try to understand what's been said, than just laugh with the out-of-context, expressions such as "yeah", "biatch", "sista". African Americans are still used by/for white ignorance and it seems that it is fairly impossible for Americans to get anything funny that isn't in their cultural status, even if this foreign cultural element rather aims to ridicule itself, than seriously impose on any other culture. Americans must felt offended by Charlie's visit in the US or from quotes like: "have we taken a wrong turn and arrived to a set of a pornographic film?", while they were checking in a hotel, because I just can't otherwise understand their dislike to this film. It seems that Quentin alone can't persuade the American audience of the virtues of well written dialogues with unusual vocabulary choices. Now tell me, which is more preferable: "son of a wh..re" or Charlie's line addressing one of his abusers: "your mother and father only met once and money changed hands..propably less than a 20".. David Coepp is a successful screenplay writer, and a fair director, his all star cast performs the way they should be, and are at points hilarious, the plot is fairly twisting... I just can't understand why Depp is not as good as Sparrow, or Paltrow not as good as Iron Man's Potts, or Mc Gregor not as good as Obi-Wan. You might say that only Bettany provides a performance lesser of what expected of him, but that should be rather credited to the screenplay, or the role itself, than his effort which is adequate. The soundtrack contains one of the coolest songs in a movie Johanna feat. MIles Kane . It is simply one of the best movies for the start of 2015. In the universe of trendy sequels this movie could easily provide a franchise similar to Edward's Pink Panther for the new millenia, much more successful than the American reboot of the series with the god Steve Martin . I wanted to rank it even higher but I considered this unfair to other movies that are interested in achieving something greater than two hours of fun. If you don't get it, don't hate it!!