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Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! review – Rob Lowe raises idiocy to a high art

Produced by Charlie Brooker, this jam-packed sendup of hackneyed film tropes – from The Baguette Rule to The Smurfette Principle – is a perfect hour of fluff and nonsense

The last time I saw Rob Lowe – and I did actually have to check this wasn’t the result of some kind of pandemic-induced hallucination – was in ITV’s Wild Bill, in which he played a Miami ex-cop who had relocated to east Lincolnshire to become the chief constable. It was an astonishing expression of the undying trouper spirit that must endure in every actor if they are to survive. We watched Billy Hicks from St Elmo’s Fire drive a Volvo through a field of cabbages, for chrissakes! About Last Night’s Danny Martin faced off with a baddie atop a wind turbine in the Boston countryside!

Lowe is game, is what I’m saying. And he is game again as presenter of Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (Netflix), a piece of fluff and nonsense – these are terms of praise – by Charlie Brooker and other assorted writers. Looking at the movie industry’s most frequently used tropes, it was made up of a plethora of clips, comments and a small but crucial extra measure of wit and deftness than the genre customarily manages.

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