That not english
Just watch the film tooth and oh my god that suppose to be the UK look more USA we have £ not $ we and Carvan and good street.
shareNo, it was the UK, in real life, but they were trying to pretend that it wasn't.
Didn't you spot all those fake American accents? As far as I know, none of the cast actually were American, with the possible exception of Jerry Hall. Okay, you spotted the use of dollars, but there were lots of other American words and expressions, too. And if you looked very closely, you could see "NEW YORK" written on the number plate of Plug's van (if I recall correctly), and could even spot that the map which Plug used to track down the protagonists near the end was actually a map of Los Angeles.
So I think it was probably supposed to be set in America.
I still can't grasp why, though. Maybe it was just that Mr. Nammour liked America more. Or maybe he thought it would make the film more attractive to the larger and more wealthy American market. If it was for that reason, though, I think he was mistaken. The Harry Potter films haven't exactly suffered for having British settings and British accents, have they? I think that it might have been more successful if he'd given it a more British feel.
Saw this last night and i thought most of the accents were very convincing...
Except the little boy having a couple of slips they're very talented, not many brits can nail the generic American accent but they pulled it off.
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There may be many more GOOD american films than british, but this is in itself a misleading statistic. Hollywood is a far more fertile ground for movies than the UK, with the money and the size of the industry over there this is no big surprise. However, on the other side of the coin, this also means there is a lot more crap produced in the USA compared to GB, so I wouldn't start getting on your high horse just yet. Quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality, and our films tend to have more of a homegrown and authentic air about them, unlike most Hollywood productions that seem to stick rigidly to a successful formula and then proceed to beat it to death. And what's with all the remakes and flicks based on old TV shows?? If I were you I'd do a little research before shouting my mouth off like again in the future..
shareIn all honesty, British films and TV shows are almost always a lot better than American ones. We just make one hell of a lot less of them. Unless you count Anglo-American collaberations as British films, most of those are awful. And I agree, yeah. I hope someone nukes Hollywood before they remake and butcher another classic.
And this film was terrible. Seriously. In fact, the only part of this film I found funny was the terrible accents of the cast. It's odd, half of the British cast put on fake American accents and half of the American cast put on fake British accents. And then there's Harry Enfield, who manages to have a different accent in almost every scene.
This film has to be some kind of record breaker, in that it's the only film that could ever have had both Harry Enfield and Stephen Fry in quite large roles, yet still not be funny in the slightest. In fact the best bit of this film was when the soundtrack played Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing".
But some of the young actors weren't to bad. Kudos to the casting director.
Oh yeah, feel the need to edit. Any kids film which contains the line "Magic is inside all of us" should be destroyed. Quickly.