Dir: Akiva Schaffer. Starring: John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Rogen, JK Simmons, KiKi Layne. PG, 98 minutes.
It’s amazing what you can get away with under the pretence of irony. Take Disney Plus’s Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers – a return to the popular Nineties animated TV series, which rebranded some of Mickey Mouse’s oldest friends as rambunctious detectives. Unlike the largely sincere 2017 Ducktales reboot that featured David Tennant as the voice of Scrooge McDuck, the reins here have been tossed over to Akiva Schaffer (of the SNL comedy trio The Lonely Island, and the director of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Walk Hard) and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend writers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. They’ve clearly been given carte blanche to go as weird and meta as their little comedian hearts desire.
