Over a year ago actor/writer/director Adam Deacon tweeted that he was working diligently on his first film script (Anuvahood) and I was instantly intrigued. What sort of script would the star of Kidulthood and Adulthood produce, and more importantly would the end result just end up going straight to DVD?

Long before the cast and crew had been hired and long before the director screamed “QUIET ON SET PLEASE! ACTION!” Deacon’s supporters online were already hyping up Anuvahood like it was the second coming.

Now fast forward to March 2011 and after high expectations and a pretty impressive marketing/promotional campaign complete with a red carpet premiere in London’s West End, Anuvahood (Britain’s first “Urban”comedy) was finally released nationwide on the 18 March.

In the film Deacon plays K (real name Kenneth) whose sole purpose in life it seems is to act the damn FOOL on a daily basis while hanging out with his odd ball friends TJ (Jazzie Zonzolo), Lesoi (Michael Vu), Enrique (Ollie Barbieri) and Bookie (Femi Oyeniran) around his council estate, becoming a famous MC, and eating Fruitellas because “it’s a bad man sweet ya get me”.

But things take a turn for the worse, after K leaves his job at the supermarket (Laimsbury’s) and decides to sell weed for a living after his family lose nearly all their possessions to the bailiffs. This then leads to several comical encounters often involving the estate’s head drug dealer and bully boy Tyrone (Richie Campbell), and K learning some valuable lessons a long the way.

So did Anuvahood live up to the hype???

Those of you who are old enough to remember the ‘90s’ US film comedy Friday which starred Ice Cube and Chris Tucker will definitely see similarities between the two films.  It clearly inspired Deacon and there are  scenes in Anuvahood that mirror scenes in the 1995 comedy classic, which more or less makes it Friday UK.

However, I will say that Anuvahood was still entertaining with some laugh out loud moments, and Richie Campbell stands out as the psychotic Tyrone. I have watched Richie in a few TV dramas but hadn’t realised he was also such a good physical comic actor. And I’ve only just noticed his physique. I didn’t know he was built like that… mmmmmmm 🙂

But anyway… I digress…

In conclusion I will add that Anuvahood is a brash, bright, loud, over the top spoof geared towards the 15 – 21 year old demographic, who will flock to the cinemas and think it’s the funniest film they have seen to date.

Mad News Rating – I will give the film 7 out of 10 because it did succeed in making me laugh.

Click HERE to read fellow blogger Ondo Lady’s review.

Click HERE to read fellow blogger/radio personality Miss Lala’s review.