I have seen it, and enjoyed it. If you are looking for "real" Morris, apart from a few clips at Wimborne Folk Fest, there isn't any. If you are looking for slapstick, car chases, wild sex, fast action, gratuitous violence, well I wouldn't bother if I were you. But, as Folknacious says above, it is a gentle, entertaining, funny, English comedy that takes a poke at humanity via the Morris. It isn't really about Morris, although dancers will get a few more chuckles out of it than perhaps the wider public, and folk from south-west England likewise. The mostly-non Morris audience at Fordingbridge gave the film/producer/lead actor an enormous and unexpected ovation. I guess that meant they liked it. I am thinking of going to watch it again, probably at Downton, 'cos I'm sure I missed stuff on the first viewing and I spent far too much time at the end looking for familiar sides and faces. Malcolm
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