Film Brain puts on his clown face for this absurdly amusing Irish comedy that crams as many jokes as it can in its big top - but does have one genuinely brilliant element.
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00:00 Now in UK cinemas is madcap Irish comedy Apocalypse Clown.
00:04 After a solar flare causes an electrical blackout, a group of struggling clowns and a sparring
00:09 journalist including David Earle from Brian and Charles try to navigate their way through
00:14 the apocalypse and find a reason to keep on clowning.
00:18 It's a bonkersly brilliant premise and I will admit that I laughed quite a few times
00:21 at the darkly comic absurdity, not least of which the fact that humanity is almost instantly
00:25 crumbled because the wifi is out.
00:27 But the longer it goes on the more it reveals itself as being patchier than a clown's
00:32 trousers and it really starts coming apart at the seams.
00:35 It does throw a lot of gags at the audience but sometimes it just sells for being crass
00:38 or mean spirited instead of being amusing.
00:41 It does boast one genuinely inspired comic creation in the form of Funzo, a so called
00:46 street clown that's gone scary, a gleefully deranged performance by Natalie Palamedas
00:51 who not just scores most of the movie's big laughs but practically carries it to such
00:56 an extent that she might need booking for a hernia op after all this.