Checked out Mortdecai… Johnny Depp’s latest attempt to be a weirdo on screen. This time he’s a puffy British rich guy with a fancy mustache and that’s flippin’ HI-larious… or you better think his mustache is hilarious because they crack a joke about it two dozen times in the movie. HA! Because it’s funny. It’s a fancy mustache on an upper lip and everything.

That’s this movie in a nutshell. Desperately trying to funny. It wasn’t working on me. It is kind of a mash-up of Austin Powers and the Pink Panther… but not nailing either’s particular brand of humor quite right. It has a large and random batch of crooks and they all converge at the end and it feels like it should be wacky and full of hijinx – I know the kind of movie it was trying to be, but it kept failing.

I suspect I may just be a grump without a sense of humor since there were folks in the audience laughing a lot. I grant that I could be wrong. I can only state my reaction which was not-bored but not interested and not amused. When the best thing I can say about a movie is maybe the accents were alright and there was a funny bit where Mortdecai and his fancy mustache ran into a bunch of American hipsters with fancy mustaches… that was kind of funny.

Moving on with life.

Score: 67