CAPTAIN EAGER AND THE MARK OF VOTH/OH MY!

It is generally acknowledged that truth is stranger than fiction. But seldom has it been so obvious as in the case of this film.

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Even once you has seen it, you will have a hard time knowing what you have seen.

Inspired by the gentler of fifties Sci-fi movies, when characters were more cardboard than cosmic and really bad things rarely happened, it posits an out-of-date Dan Dare type hero, square jawed Captain Eager, launched forward in time to, for him, an incomprehensible digital age and a mission to track the villains there.

Or perhaps it should be described as the kind of movie you had in your head when you were a child and uncorrupted by the evils of the adult world.

Something clunky, surreal, and illogical, to be sure, but nevertheless funny, inspiring, noble.

That is just the film. Now for the truth really stranger than fiction. A chap called Simon DaVison (great name, Simon!) has spent four years of his life putting this amusingly odd concoction together.

And he has succeeded in enlisting the help of leading talent like Tamsin Greig, Rick Leaf and James Vaughan.

Not to mention Captain Eager’s trusty companion Petal, otherwise known as Scamp the Space Dog.

Confused about where all this is going. Perhaps it is time for you to visit the Captain Eager’s site to have a look at the trailer.

Then, if you are tempted to catch the mayhem, watch for the film opening at the ICA in central London and various key cities on April 18, 2008.

Posted April 9, 2008.