Plastic Cowboys: Growing Nowhere

Note: This review is from 2006

Review by Steve Bennett

This nostalgic and cute trip down memory lane depicts the exploits of the typical ten-year old.

Birthday parties, over-protective mothers, schoolyard crushes and bogies. Timmy (any relation to Viz's spoilt bastard?) is the main character who charts the sometimes unsavoury experiences of childhood ­ friendships, swapping Batman cards, foreign rich kids and starting a new school.

The trio play a myriad of characters - a sinister school nurse, a neurotic headmaster, a fat boy and Simon, Timmy's unseen alter-ego who forces him into a series of unfortunate and socially unacceptable situations such as dancing around in his underpants with cake smeared all over. Funny to watch, if a tad predictable.

The trio are wide-eyed and bushy-tailed and appear fresh out of school themselves, albeit drama school.

The sketches are well executed and they clearly have a talent and a flair for acting but a lot of the material appeared to be very basic observations of pre-adolescent fumblings, and the whole thing ran out of steam well before the anticlimactic finale.

Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett

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