Johnny Depp may be best known in recent years for his goofy Pirates of the Caribbean character Jack Sparrow. But now he’s taken on yet another zany role in Mortdecai. In the R-rated spy comedy film, he plays Lord Charlie Mortdecai, a British art dealer and aficionado… and a secret agent…. an extremely unconventional one, with a curly mustache. The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Dalton calls Mortdecai a “misfiring action-comedy” and says Depp plays the title character “as a human Looney Tunes character.” Variety’s Guy Lodge says the movie is “energetic but obstinately unfunny.” The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin gives Mortdecai one out of five stars… He calls the film “psychotically unfunny” and says “It’s hard to think of a way in which the experience of watching the new Johnny Depp film could be any worse, unless you returned home afterwards to discover that Depp himself had set fire to your house.”
