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A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Leave your thoughts about Huge.
| Sky CinemaTim EvansIt's a downbeat, low-key peek into the thankless task of climbing the greasy entertainment pole and you're rewarded - not with laughs - but a grim insight into quite how unfunny the comedy world can be. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonThe almost complete absence of wit from the screenplay ensures that this study of aspiration, delusion and desperation is as unendurable as one of Warren and Clark's routines. |
| The Ooh TrayEd Whitfield... The lack of mirth coupled with the self-conscious kook employed in characterisation, make it hard to care whether they succeed or not and difficult to know if they'd deserve it if they did. |
| Daily Express (UK)Caroline JowettHuge is painfully unfunny and desperately unconvincing. |
| Movie TalkJason BestYou'd think comedian Ben Miller's day job as one half of double act Armstrong and Miller would have stood him in good stead for his directing debut - a film about a comedy double act. It hasn't. His screen duo aren't the least bit funny or enaging. |
| Observer (UK)Jason SolomonsMiller catches the dinge of the pub stand-up circuit nicely and certainly nails the desperation. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim Robey[A] failed comedy, disguised as a dopey drama, shot with the most dispiriting fuzzy flatness, and scripted like a soap. It's all epically feeble. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerPoorly directed, badly written and cripplingly miscast, this is a desperately unfunny comedy that fails on every conceivable level. |
| User ReviewDave GPretty average movie but a great showcase for Johnny Harris, such an intense actor. |
| User ReviewAnonymous UserWhere "Huge" collapses is in its mishandling of the central relationship, subject as it is to slight yet fatal miscasting. Clarke burrows down in a part styled suspiciously like Richard Ayoade, but the actor just doesn't have funny bones in the way a Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill (or, indeed, an Ayoade) undoubtedly does, which immediately reduces the film's potential for laughs by 50%. And Harris, an exemplary dramatic actor ("London to Brighton", "This is England '86") has the unfortunate tendency of making Jerry Sadowitz look relaxed, stomping all over his share of the jokes - which, and I'm not sure "Huge" itself really knows, may or may not be the point. With its bitparts and walk-ons for circuit veterans and most of the current Avalon roster, its unexpectedly classy Thandie Newton cameo, it does well to disguise the fact it's another low-budget Britpic, but Miller can't hide the poor pacing, a general sense of skimpiness (it's all over, sadly undeveloped, at 75 minutes) or a feeling that this is another work in which successful entertainers tell us how terrible success is. |