Keanu

This freewheeling comedy stars TV sketch show duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as two suburban LA friends who find themselves dangerously out of their depth when they pose as gangsters to get back a stolen kitten

The film's big joke is that the pair are hopelessly square and mild-mannered, the last people you could imagine pulling off their assumed identities as swaggering desperados 'Tectonic' and 'Shark Tank'.

Somehow, though, Key's character does manage to convince a bunch of drug dealers that George Michael, his favourite musician, is a badass, putting hilarious menace into the fate of Michael's Wham! sidekick Andrew Ridgeley ('Nobody ever seen him again').

Their misadventures are stretched rather thin, but the stars' chemistry is sublime and the gags hit more often than they miss. On top of which, the missing feline (the 'Keanu' of the title) couldn't be cuter.

Incidentally, Peele followed up his role here by writing and directing another movie dealing with racial taboos and sensitivities, but one in a very different vein: this year's surprise horror hit Get Out.

The film premieres on Saturday 6 May.

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