When a film is sold on the premise of watching Ed Sheeran take a dump in public or Jeremy Corbyn tell someone to “allow it, wasteman”, there may not be anything else to add. They’re only two of the many cameos in Adam Deacon’s Sumotherhood, a follow-up to 2011’s Anuvahood, which parodied his own star-making turns in the west London-set dramas Kidulthood (2006) and Adulthood (2008).
Curiosity alone will undoubtedly tempt some people. But, really, there’s a limit to what you can do with celebrity faces and on-the-nose references. And there’s only so much Denise Van Outen, Gogglebox, and Fruitella (“a badman sweet”) one person can take before the nods of recognition start to hurt their neck.
