Mortdecai

Annabel needed a replica—a perfect, undetectable fake—to swap back before Algernon’s mother, the Dowager Duchess, noticed the lobster’s absence during the annual “Crustacean Gala” (a real event, I assure you, as tedious as it sounds).

In the current landscape of IP-driven content, where every film is a reboot, sequel, or comic book adaptation, Mortdecai stands as an anomaly. It is an original (based on a novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, but obscure enough to be "original") big-budget comedy that was allowed to be weird. It has no post-credits scene. It sets up no sequel. It exists, gloriously, in its own failed bubble. mortdecai