The film’s whimsical specificity, random though it frequently seems, is the main thing it has going for it.
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The DissolveTasha Robinson
The DissolveTasha Robinson
Fantastic Fear leaps all over the place narratively and conceptually, servicing the comedy of every individual scene without considering or linking the others. Some of those individual scenes are marvelous, though.
There’s also little point and a garish quality that goes from pulp to junk fairly quickly, despite Pegg’s presence.
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Slant MagazineDrew Hunt
Slant MagazineDrew Hunt
Strands of Simon Pegg's amiable persona are found in the film's more tolerable bits, but even this seasoned vet's unique voice is lost amid the glut of references to other work.
It is three parts The Mighty Boosh to two parts The Goon Show, which, when mixed with the quite astonishing lack of wit and finesse seen here, makes for pure cinematic strychnine.