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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: MPI HOME VIDEO
Salesrank: 3851
Released: January 12, 2010 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
It s the razor-sharp smash that critics are calling brilliant (San Francisco Chronicle), blisteringly funny (USA Today) and "One of the best films of the year... a little piece of heaven (Chicago Tribune). Peter Capaldi stars as a foul-mouthed British government spokesman who must act quickly when a mid-level minister (Tom Hollander of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN) tells an interviewer that U.S. war in the Middle East is unforeseeable . But when they are both summoned to Washington D.C., the hapless politico quickly becomes a pawn of bureaucrats, spin doctors and military advisors, including a hardnosed General (James Gandolfini, in a performance Rolling Stone hails as slyly hilarious ). Gina McKee (WONDERLAND), Anna Chlumsky (MY GIRL) and Steve Coogan (TROPIC THUNDER) co-star in this hilarious satire from director/co-writer Armando Iannucci, the award-winning creator of the classic BBC sitcoms I M ALAN PARTRIDGE and THE THICK OF IT.
In the Loop Reviews:
A brilliant satire 
2009-12-18 - This movie is a brilliant satire, on par with Spinal Tap and For Your Consideration.
Brilliant satire, very very funny.
2009-11-26 - If you liked The Office, Spinal Tap and Dr. Strangelove and you also don't mind the very frequent but highly effective use of swearing then this is a must-see movie.
To paraphrase one of the many rants from the British spin doctor, if you don't watch this movie "I'm going to tear out your shinbone, split it in two and stab you to f*****g death with it!"
Smart Funny Terrific
2009-11-25 - This is the smartest, funniest movie I've seen in ages. It is filled with a multitude of quotable one-liners that me & my friends will be using over & over again. Moreover, it ran for SIX MONTHS here in the Bay Area. It is destined to become a rep-house institution for the next decade and the DVD will become a cult-fave for many.
All I do is work and watch movies, basically, and this is the best film I have seen in years.
Here's my fave quote: "Why don't you take your cheese, and your backlog of Mojo, and your eighth of dope and ____ off!"
"The Office" goes to war - a very clever and dark satire on international politics 
2009-11-20 - "In the Loop" is a sharp and witty and funny and depressing take on the office politics of politics. Simon Foster is the ambitious but largely clueless and weak-willed British "minister for international development." When he makes the mistake of suggesting, contrary to the official British position, that an imminent war was "unforeseeable" on a BBC radio interview, he is colorfully and harshly reprimanded by the British press secretary who seems incapable of putting three words together without a creative interjection of expletives. Simon suddenly finds himself in the midst of a power struggle between hawks and doves (both UK and US) and interns and career politicians, some who care about whether the war (ostensibly the war in Iraq, which is never actually mentioned) proceeds and, mostly, others who care more about their own future in politics. The point is that even when it comes to matters of greatest urgency, the petty and small are never far off. It's a clever and very funny take on bureaucracy and international politics, that would be even funnier if it weren't so awfully scary. Shot in the kinetic documentary style made popular on the BBC's Office and its American remake - it may make you dizzy while the wordplay has your head spinning. Definitely worth watching.
The DVD bonus features are fairly slim, but more than that isn't necessary, since it's the film that matters here: a few deleted scenes, a trailer, english subtitles (might be useful if you get lost with the thick British accents), and spanish subtitles.
profanity raised to the level of subversive poetry
2009-10-25 - Total frikken hilarious. A political satire of some serious bite, about just how little it takes, how much self-fellation occurs in the halls of politics that results in the declaration of war. It has the mark of truth and that is very sobering. Meanwhile, you are choking with laughter at the inventive and colorful language. It puts us Americans to shame. I mean, a threat to shove cotton wool down your throat until is comes out the other end like a bunny tail is damned scary!
