Sumotherhood (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 13 Oct 2023
• Country: United Kingdom
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14963742/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sumotherhood
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
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• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 97 min
• Writer: Adam Deacon, Michael Vu, Jazzie Zonzolo
• Director: Adam Deacon
• Cast: Adam Deacon, Jennifer Saunders, Danny Sapani
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	4.7/10
	45% – Critics

Sumotherhood Storyline

Riko and Kane have got it all… big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes. So, it’s time to man up and finally be taken serious as “Roadmen”. Once putting their heads together on various ways to make some money, they decide to rob a megastar in a nightclub toilet and hold up the local bank but things inevitably don’t go to plan!. However, somehow a misunderstanding leads them to be desired and acquired for business with one of East London’s toughest firms, putting them in the line of fire to the firm’s arch-rivals. Can Riko and Kane live up to their name? Will Riko win the affection of Tamara and if he does, will Tyrese, Tamara’s lunatic stepbrother, allow Riko to live? Will his life be worth living if the local London Feds draw a line back to our duo?

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Sumotherhood Movie Reviews

Annoying

Sumotherhood seemed like it had good potential and the start of the film was promising, but it just got far too annoying from there.

Firstly the characters are just too out there. There’s always a fine line with a parody film and this one crossed it. The lead characters Rico and Kane are way too overacted and loud and just not that fun to follow. None of the cameos really work either. It almost feels like a Red Nose Day special the amount of random and awkward cameos they shoehorned in.

The humour is fine but just so overdrawn. All of the jokes are dragged on for too long to the point where they just aren’t funny anymore. They just didn’t know when to stop.

Surprisingly the plot is actually fine. Nothing amazing but definitely not awful. Unfortunately it is let down by the points above, resulting in an awkward and tiresome film.

It’s a shame because I think a lot of the core pieces of a good film are here but they are just presented really poorly.

Loud, forced humour and very irritating.

Anuvahood is a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s not a great film by any means, but it is entertaining and a good time. When I saw the trailer for Sumotherhood, I won’t lie to you, it looked pretty bad. Much more slapstick, much more ‘action’ comedy than the first movie and only a sprinkling of the original cast returning. Nevertheless, after a couple of beers and some food, we decided to give it a go. How bad could it be?

… It’s pretty bad.

One thing that I found quite jarring is that the names and characters have changed from the first movie? The two leads have different names and the other returning actors are playing different characters. I can only imagine Adam Deacon wanted to get the full gang back to play the same characters but they weren’t having it so he got what he could and changed them completely.

This movie is loud, too loud. The shouting gets irritating after about 15 minutes and that delivery of shouting jokes and screaming all the time just isn’t that funny. Not to mention that 9 out of 10 jokes just aren’t funny. There are some good one-liners in this, and I did have a few chuckles, but it just wasn’t enough.

Adam Deacon has bipolar and I believe that is why he has been away from acting for quite some time and his inclusion of mentioning this in the movie is about a subtle as a third nipple. The ending is also hilarious with some social commentary shoehorned in which is completely out of place and out of the blue.

The cameos are in the trailer and aside from Jeremy Corben saying ‘allow it wasteman’, they all add nothing to the comedy.

Overall, the movie is pretty bad, it’s not that funny, it’s repetitive and it falls flat on so many occasions. Surprisingly though, it’s actually better than I thought it would be.

A very generous 4/10.

Sumotherhood

I remember seeing the film Anuvahood in 2011, which served as a spoof of British urban teenage dramas, including Kidulthood and Adulthood, the trailer featuring many celebrity cameos looked appealing, it is not a sequel but a reboot. Basically, Richard aka “Riko” (Adam Deacon, also writing, producing and directing) and Kane (Jazzie Zonzolo, also producing and writing) are best friends who share a bunkbed and are £1,500 in debt. In desperation, they try to rob star rapper Lethal Bizzle (as himself) in a nightclub toilet, but he gets one over on the dopey duo and they are forced to flee. Riko and Kane try to think of other ways to make money, but they see no other option but to carry out a bank robbery. Wearing balaclavas and using paintball guns, they hold up a local bank and demand money. But the bank clerk (London Hughes) recognises them, and they end up arguing in front of the customers and staff, including politician Jeremy Corbyn (as himself), to the point they reveal their identities. During this chaos, a man (Danny Sapani) tries to reason with them, but they wind up shooting him in the chest with a paintball, causing him to have a heart attack and collapse. Riko and Kane go into hiding following the failed bank job, but they are soon found by men who work for an East London firm leader (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith) who is impressed that they may have killed a rival gang leader. Riko and Kane, wanting to impress these criminals and make some real money, make up a tall tale of what happened at the bank, and the leader recruits them to do some jobs for him. There may be a Russian criminal leader (Peter Serafinowicz) getting involved with something as well. The man who suffered the heart attack is in hospital; his brother Tyrese (Richie Campbell) is raging that someone may have wanted to hurt his brother and demands his fellow criminals to find those responsible. Meanwhile, a rogue police officer (Vas Blackwood) has been watching Riko and Kane for some time, he is sure they are involved with criminal activities but needs evidence on what they are up to. Tyrese is getting closer to finding the duo, who go to a nightclub to celebrate their good fortune, and during the evening, Riko inadvertently gets closer to Tyrese’s beautiful stepbrother Tamara (Leomie Anderson). A series of misunderstandings between the criminals and the authorities means that Riko and Kane are getting in too, and it all comes to a confrontation between Tyrese’s gang, the firm leader’s group, and the rogue cops in an alleyway. Eventually, all sides get into a firefight, but Riko and Kane manage to get away with Tamara before the head of the police (Jennifer Saunders) arrives to take control and berate the rogue officer. In the end, Riko and Kane pay off the man they owe money to and escape London to live a better life, with Tamara, in the United States. Also starring Ed Sheeran as a homeless man, Jaime Winstone, Linda Robson, Rosie Jones, Kevin Bishop (also producing), Babatunde Aleshe, Tamsin Outhwaite, and Lorraine Stanley. Deacon has been through legal issues in recent years, including charges of harassment and possession of a weapon, some of which can be explained by mental issues, but he seems recovered and incorporates mental stuff into his character, who takes pills for bipolar disorder. Deacon is reasonable in the lead role, alongside Zonzolo, they do make a likeable enough twosome of idiots, Campbell did make me laugh with being the over-the-top lunatic stepbrother, while it is only reasonably fun to spot the many recognisable comedians, soap stars, and pop stars, and Corbyn. The script filled with fast-paced dialogue, teen banter and many uses of “fam” is mildly amusing, while the story involving East End gangs and dodgy cops is not the most engaging all the time, it could have been much funnier, a slightly dull but sort-of watchable comedy. Okay!