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Contains very strong language and hard drug use"Laurel and Hardy on smack and Waiting For Godot," is how director Lenny Abrahamson describes Adam & Paul, his no-budget, no-laughs comedy about dopey dopeheads Adam (screenwriter Mark O'Halloran) and Paul (Tom Murphy). Focussing on the aimless inertia of the junkie life as its heroes try and score a fix, its grim vision of inner city deprivation is unlikely to boost Dublin's tourist trade. And quite what Stan and Ollie - or even Samuel Beckett - would make of it is debatable...
Stumbling around the city in a drugged-out haze that's slowly turning to desperate need, Adam and Paul reinvent slapstick into a withdrawal symptom comedy of errors. It's an awkward blend of styles with arty pretensions, as the reference to the meandering tramps of Samuel Beckett's existential play Waiting For Godot makes plain.
"HARD TO FIND IT EVEN VAGUELY AMUSING"
"Why are you here?" demands a visiting Bulgarian (Ion Caramitru), whom they meet on a park bench. Neither of these hapless addicts have an answer: they're simply marking out the dead time between fixes. A moment of hope comes in an interlude with a friend's baby, but quickly turns sour - though it's not quite as bleak as the mugging of a boy with Down's Syndrome. After that, it's hard to find their accident-prone antics even vaguely amusing. But then, as the stunted finale proves, the world of Adam & Paul is driven only by need. Moviegoers eager to believe in the triumph of the human spirit should probably Just Say No.
If awards were given out for pretentious drivel this would be in with a shout
