Arpad Okay, The Beat:
“So is it really the realness that makes Al Dente so engrossing? Withnail and Al are both uncompromisingly bitter, overflowing with life in some ways, utterly alien to it in most others. Is it assurance that we can be crushed completely and still survive? The comfort in recognizing some of our flaws aren’t ours alone? How is it possible to be so likable and such a jagoff at the same time? There’s something behind the slapstick Dente subjects his self-respect to that compels me (to ask a million questions).
Neither I nor Dente have any answers, to be honest. This isn’t about soul searching, it’s about going to work at the job you hate and then farting in the customer’s face. You probably shouldn’t do what Al Dente does actually.”
Read the full review on The Beat’s website here!
