| But it failed to key me up, just as the subject matter, perhaps deliberately, left me never quite sure whether this was an earnest morality tale or a spoof and a send-up. |
| A send-up should be smarter than the films it pokes fun at, but that isn't the case here. |
| Leddy refers to sources as diverse as Bartok, Darwin and Baudrillard, but essentially it's a send-up. |
| The set of frying pans are a hilarious send-up of the whole idea. |
| It was a brilliant send-up, but it was a caricature of our real meetings. |
| It's a kind of Carry On Shakespeare, a loving send-up without mockery. |
