And that’s before we even get to the mid-point twist, which plays like a light-hearted riff on Jordan Peele’s Get Out, while also spoofing older classics like Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Stepford Wives. A little bit Jane Austen, a little bit Bollywood, a little bit Ocean’s Eleven and a little bit St Trinian’s, it also cribs some of the video game aesthetics of Wright’s own Scott Pilgrim vs the World, and pays extensive (albeit it blood-free) tribute to the kung fu fury of the Kill Bill movies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix franchise. A martial arts-fuelled coming-of-age comedy about a British Pakistani teenager trying to save her sister from her impending nuptials, writer/director Nida Manzoor’s debut film Polite Society operates in the same overstuffed genre-mash-up register as much of Edgar Wright’s output.
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