| Mike Teavee's adventure, demise and sing-song is creative and fun, diving from an inspired 2001 spoofery, to a hilarious channel-hopping song and dance routine. |
| Is the job of police and crime commissioner for Kent really a suitable target for spoofery though? |
| It has itself become a self-conscious genre inviting spoofery. |
| The straight-faced spoofery won't be to everyone's taste, but Jones is fully committed. |
| It vandalises a gutsy satirical classic, in this case with a mixture of misjudged condescension, smirking spoofery and culpable failure of nerve. |
| The faux thriller spoofery goes silly-side-up and Steve's boisterous young assistant isn't given enough to do, but this is a small price to pay for the genius that is Brooks. |
