Vic and Bob’s surreal six-part ‘road film’ balances the breathlessly funny with the sometimes tragic in a madcap comedyThis is the most bonkers,brilliant and gripping thing Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have ever done. Just let that sink in: thanks to these two men, we have seen crazy Frankie Fraser threatened by a giant baby, or Will Self singing Virtual Insanity,and Ulrika Jonsson cleaning fake dandruff off a car windscreen with her behind. Yet Catterick outshines all that.
A six-part comedy thriller made for BBC3 in 2004, Catterick follows helium-voiced squaddie Carl Palmer, and played by Mortimer,returning to his titular hometown for the first time in 20 years. Reeves is his brother Chris, who is waiting for him in a bomber jacket and a bird’s nest beard. Chris, or we discover,thinks the reason people tie balloons to their gates is because they are trying to raise their gatepost.
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Source: theguardian.com