Bill review: “The Horrible Histories team are the Pythons’ heirs apparent”
By Mark Braxton for the RadioTimes, 18 September 2015
After their skilful skewering of the fantasy genre in Sky1’s Yonderland, the sextet behind it return to the domain that made them famous. With this ambitious, family-friendly film, Mathew Baynton and co once again tread on the dung and cobbles of (Horrible) history.
But while the CBBC hit – as popular with adults as it was with children – comprised sketches and songs about different periods from the Stone Age onwards, this big-screen outing is rooted in the time of the Terrible Tudors, with an archly alternative story of William Shakespeare.
Just as in 1998’s Shakespeare in Love, we find the Bard strapped for cash and a bit rubbish at writing. It’s Stratford in 1593. Bill (Baynton) is a lute player, booted out of his band for showboating. Wife Anne (Martha Howe-Douglas) wants him to take a job at the butcher’s, but Shakey has other ideas, and sets off Dick Whittington-style to pursue his dream in the Big Smoke.
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