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Four Lions: Funny

Director Christopher Morris is best known for his work on the TV show Nathan Barley but his absence from the scene of directing (Barley came out in 2005) was apparently just a stop gap to his next enjoyable work - Four Lions. The feature length movie follows a group of British jihadists as they attempt to hone their skills as full fledged terrorists. It's not exactly material you'd think would be appropriate or laugh out loud ridiculous but the trailer is undeniably funny.

As with Barley, Morris is able to take a stereotype of a group of people and stretch it out of proportion just far enough to be absurd but still maintaining an inner seed of believability. I look forward to taking this one in.