No, not if the play’s gone wrong. That’s its own thing. And I don’t mean the Shaun of the Dead has gone wrong. That’s as brilliant as Shaun’s plan to get to the Winchester is daft. I just needed a good image of befuddlement.
But we have all watched films where we’re befuddled about how unremarkable it is, haven’t we?
Well, longtime writer Mark Evanier has a theory on why some films are like that. And I’m not sure it applies to all cases, it is the only theory related to this phenomenon that references a singing rat. Don’t say you weren’t warned.