Providing a rare big-screen starring role for Peter Cook, it's a cold
hearted but slickly entertaining satire on political spin and media
manipulation of the public that could just as easily have been made
today. As a surreal and anarchic spoof of Westminster and its wicked

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become Britain's first ever president.

Cook is remarkable throughout this broadest of broad satires. Aloof and
distant, he uses superficial charm to con the public and his sleazy
political paymasters. Rimmer feels brilliantly new Labour even though

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Cook co-wrote the script with director Kevin Billington and his old
satirical running mates John Cleese and Graham Chapman and there's much
of the classic sketch show vibe at play here. Frantic, Pythonesque
skits are played out by a cast that is practically creaking at the