Man About Dog

I should be writing about a night on the town on Saturday but unfortunatly with continuing unrest, people cancelled at the last minute leaving us with a night in to watch a DVD. On Friday afternoon, the roads were unusually quiet as everybody got the hell out of Dodge. At around 3pm all work ceased and we assembled in Finance to work on our costumes. There was a lot of craic and beers were passed around to make the mood more jovial. Parrots, peg legs and pirate hats were created from old boxes and we got the lingo down for the main event.

Friday night was spent watching some trashy TV. I managed to catch Jonathon Ross who I haven't watched in ages and he had a bizarre assortment of guests on his show. First up was the actor Gerard Depardieu and he scathingly attacked the BBC in broken English so god knows what he was saying as half of it was beeped out. Those crazy Frenchmen! Next up was Kanye West and, as all rap stars do, had nothing to contribute except for talking himself up as the Next Big Thing. *yawn* As always, the idiot box was accompanied by some well desaerved vino. [Is it ever not deserved?] So, back to Saturday evening...

With everyone cancelling on us we decided to have a small gathering and forged ahead with inviting the few remaining people, namely Andrew and Colin. We caught up on past events and future outings such as New Years Eve at Achill Island. We were lucky to get the booking completed when we did as myself and Don made the last two rooms going. Will talk about that closer to the main event. So, we decided to watch a Northern Irish film called Man About Dog. I have to say, it was one of the funniest comedies I've seen in a long time and it's extremely refreshing to see a film from here that has nothing at all to do with politics or the "troubles", instead focusing on characters and hilarity. Although the characters are from Northern Ireland, most of the filming takes place accross the border as it is funded by the Irish Film Commission. No complaints here though. Some of the situations the characters get themselves into his far-fetched but so what? I imagine that some people outside of Ireland may not get the full extent of the comedy surrounding certain scenes but there's more than enough to keep you sides splitting including a rather amusing trip to a medical science facility to earn money leaving the hapless lads with extending members which are put to good use, or not in one case!

A great film to see emerging from here and worth checking out at the video library.

I would give this film 4 rabbits out of 5.