Matt Lucas Movies
Tim Burton takes a stab at Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) lost within a fantasyland with this 3-D production of Alice in Wonderland. The Lion King's Linda Woolverton provides the script, with Hollywood heavyweights Richard Zanuck and Joe Roth heading up the production team. Burton veteran collaborator Johnny Depp co-stars as The Mad Hatter in the Walt Disney Productions picture. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, (more)
- 2009
- PG
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A young robot with incredible powers, super strength, and the purest spirit on the planet discovers the joys of being human while embarking on a worldwide journey to discover his true potential in this animated update of Osamu Tezuka's classic anime story. Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is a young robot from futuristic Metro City. Created by a brilliant scientist named Tenma (Nicolas Cage), and powered by pure positive "blue" energy that gives him such abilities as x-ray vision, inhuman speed, and flight, the wide-eyed android longs to find his true place in the world. He sets out on an epic journey that brings him face to face with an underworld army of robots and some of the strangest creatures ever to walk the Earth, and along the way learns to experience human feelings and emotions. Astro Boy's remarkable mission of discovery is suddenly cut short, however, when he learns that his friends and family back in Metro City are in grave danger. As Astro Boy prepares to face off against his greatest adversary in order to save everything he cares most about, he realizes that only through victory will he finally discover what it takes to be a hero. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, (more)
This HBO produced American spin-off of the successful British sketch comedy series features vignettes based around wild, irreverent, and sometimes offensive humor, as well as regularly appearing characters each known for cheeky catchphrases. Building in part on the irony and post-modernism of Kids in the Hall, and in part on the pure silliness of Benny Hill, the series fully utilizes the freedoms offered by HBO with regard to naughty language and content. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
- 2006
Thesps Matt Lucas, Bob Hoskins, Mark Gatiss and Lee Ingleby star in this live-action BBC miniseries adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's beloved novel The Wind in the Willows. The program weaves the familiar tale of Mole, Rat, Badger and the inimitable Mr. Toad, who remain fast friends as they experience exciting adventures involving stolen motorcars, imprisonment, houseboating. gypsies and freewheeling nighttime expeditions. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, (more)
Little Britain: Abroad contains the Christmas special of the British comedy series. The various storylines involve Lou and Andy taking a trip to Disneyworld, Vicky Pollard's mom getting her daughter out of a jam in Thailand, and various adventures featuring the Fat Fighters. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matt Lucas, David Walliams, (more)
In 2005 Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams took their unique British satire series on the road for an eight month tour that found them performing all across the their native Britain. This performance, captured live in Blackpool, finds the stars of the popular series bringing their uniquely British characters to the stage for the delight of audiences who can't get enough of such characters as the gratingly chirpy Vicky Pollard, whose "yeah, but no, but yeah!" became a national catchphrase. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2003
By the time it cleaned up at the 2004 British Comedy Awards, beating out such formidable competition as The Office and Nighty Night, this sketch-comedy showcase had already been through several incarnations. Originally produced as an audio series for the BBC's Radio Four, Little Britain won fans across the U.K. for its subversive send-up of 21st century British archetypes: a laddish lothario with a thing for his mate's elderly gran; a bossy small-town gay boy desperate to hold onto his uniqueness; the world's most unconvincing cross-dresser; and a sour, surly diet guru with a weight problem of her own. The brainchild of Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who portray many of their own creations, Little Britain progressed to a successful television incarnation on the new digital channel BBC3 in early 2003. With Tom Baker on board as the program's sardonic narrator and Buffy the Vampire Slayer vet Anthony Stewart Head portraying a put-upon prime minister, the show quickly earned a cult following. By the time a second series appeared in 2004, Little Britain had been promoted to the more mainstream BBC1. Multiple wins at the aforementioned British Comedy Awards established the program's status as a marquee attraction. But its geographically specific humor did not immediately attain international popularity the way previous Britcoms such as Absolutely Fabulous had. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
- 1999
An excellent vehicle for the comic brilliance of Matt Lucas, the British miniseries Sir Bernard's Stately Holmes featured Lucas as the titular Sir Bernard, a self-styled "theatrical raconteur." The series was a satire of the "guided tour" format that British TV had been beating to death for years. On each of the series' six ten-minute episode, Sir Bernard conducted a tour of an actual British estate, making snide, sarcastic, and borderline offensive comments all along the way. Sir Bernard's Stately Holmes was aired as part of BBC2's late-night lineup from May 12 to June 16, 1999. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
