I didn’t get to see Four Lions when it played at Sundance, but now it has a trailer and a May 7th release date set for the U.K. Still no release date in the U.S., and gee, I wonder why. It’s a sort of farce-ish comedy of errors about four hapless British jihadists. A bombedy, say. It’s supposedly very funny, and I respect the director’s balls for taking this subject, but I didn’t find the trailer all that charming. I honestly can’t tell whether it’s that I’m not ready to laugh at asshole terrorists (at least not when they’re standing around arguing about breakfast cereal), or if the comedy’s just too British. Get it, guv? It’s funny cuz da blokes is just standin’ roun’ lookin at each ovvaz ow awkward loikes, innit. An’ den da lorrie droivah fell off da lift an’ ruined da bobby’s jumpah!
[via ThePlaylist, one more equally tedious clip below]
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I bet this bombs at the box office
*drags beanbag chair to corner*
Does it make me a horrible person if this looks funny to me? I’ll be in the corner with crow…
I guess the only Four Lions we will get to see here in the states are at the zoo. Coincidentally that’s also where I saw 12 Monkeys.
*cuts wrists*
produced by Michael Bay… anymore room in that corner?
That Chris Moore, he’s such an al Qidda.
This is going to play in the U.S. as The Hurt Laffer.
“I guess the only Four Lions we will get to see here in the states are at the zoo. Coincidentally that’s also where I saw 12 Monkeys.”
That was awful I apologize. How about this one:
How do embarass an archaeologist? Hand him a used tampon and ask him what period its from!
*looks for hugs in the corner*
Uwe Boll thinks this looks great. But he’d add a scene with George Bush dry-humping Hitler’s corpse while Bin Laden pinches his nipples and Ben Kinglsey jumps on Verne Troyer in a Koopa Troopa outfit.
Asshole Terrorists sounds like the most politically incorrect porno ever made
Probably not any worse than a heilarious Hitler comedy.
It’s funny cuz da blokes is just standin’ roun’ lookin at each ovvaz ow awkward loikes, innit. An’ den da lorrie droivah fell off da lift an’ ruined da bobby’s jumpah!
How the hell did they get da Stafe to promote this movie?
Between bowing to Mecca five times a day and tea time, British Jihadists can hardly find the time for terrorism.
While comically portraying terrorists to be the uneducated criminal buffoons they are may actually be an effective way to demystify their whole stupid cause, I’d rather just see two hours of them getting shot in the fucking face.
The four lions became terrorists because they didn’t have a fifth one to form the head of Voltron.
seems funny, but yea i think this would be like releasing Tropic Thunder in 1969
I didn’t so much ROFLOL at the trailer as I JIHA’D.
It’s a Chris Morris film the world wasn’t ready for his spoof pedophile documentary on Brass Eye (it was a UK thing) but he doesn’t give a f*ck most of his stuff get’s banned or causes outrage, but he’s funny as f*ck. Search for him or Brass Eye on youtube.
This just undid 9/11
I’m with Jirish and I’d rather see this than Macgruber (is that how it’s spelt?).
But then again I’m just a donkey.