From: Andy
Message:
imagine a world where fawlty towers flirts with bollywood, where shallow
grave dances a lurid tango with the sound of music, a rose gnashed
between its teeth. remix a couple of cameos from a guy that looks like
pigsy, the fuming volcano from dante's peak, and some elephants that
wander without fear from poachers on the mountainous plains of japan.
then stick in some of cast off plasticine models from nightmare before
xmas and what you get is Takaski Miike's utterly bonkers Happiness of
the Karaukuris. god help us all.
Mr katakuri was a shoe-salesman. He got made redundant and moved his
family to the japanese wilderness with the aim of opening a guesthouse.
Which he does, and its beautiful, tho there scarcely any guests, and
those that arrive, well, die. Watch the demise of the happiness of the katakuris.
And then watch the happiness rise again when Katakuri's daughter falls
in love with one of the British royal family, and then fall again when
they try tossing a dead sumo wrestler out of a top story window. And
then watch the happiness rise again when the zombies arrive for a
singsong, and then fall again... well you get the drift.
with the exception of a possibly redundant musical number near the end
of the film, HOTK is hysterically funny funny throughout.
