THIS brilliant spoof cop show seems to be slipping under people's radar, despite the involvement of big names like Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levit, Nick Offerman and, er, Jon Ronson.
The Romania-set Comrade Detective is a spot-on send-up of jingoistic American TV shows and movies from the 1970s and 80s, presented as a 'recently re-discovered' real State-sponsored TV hit from early-1980s Romania that's chock full of not-so-thinly-veiled pro-Communist propaganda.
Filmed in Bucharest with Romanian actors and then dubbed into English, it follows the exploits of an unconventional detective duo – irascible ladies man Gregor (Florin Piersic Jr, voiced by Tatum) and thoughtful, educated family man Iosef (Corneliu Ulici, voiced by Gordon-Levitt) – as they attempt to track down the masked killer who executed Gregor's old partner.
The pair are quickly up to their necks in an American-backed conspiracy, as they uncover a plot to corrupt their beautiful country with the worst elements of the decadent west – like blue jeans, pop music, capitalist boardgames and organised religion.
The whole thing is beautifully executed, with the genuinely entertaining period-correct cop show action meshing perfectly with big laughs courtesy of skewered cliches, amusingly broad American accents and a big dollop of clever political satire.
Sign up for duty now, comrades.
Available now via Amazon.co.uk
