Pulling a Sickie

This short is one of several very short films made in a very short period of time by Sykes, Lees and Burbage. With each of them the punch line is usually the whole thing and that does seem to be the intention here. I will not give it away but personally I didn't find it that funny – okay it is based on contrast but I just didn't like it much as a line that broke the tone.

What does work surprisingly well is how good Lees can be as an actress. I liked her a lot in O-Love and here she spends a lot of the film upset and does a very good job of selling it. Burbage is a bit too goofy for his own good though – I get that this was the point but I just didn't care for the way it played out. It is messing around with a camera to a point and really at under a minute it was always going to be limited in what it does, but Lees is very effective even though it is a comedy short.