Sure you could say that there is a certain commercial component to "British Airways Safety Video: Director's Cut" with the company's name featured sho heavy in the title, but if it is for a good purpose (Comic Relief) and if the outcome is actually this funny, then I am all for it. Here we have a 6-minute live action short film from 2017, in which several stars (most of them Brits) face the heavy task of not only dealing with a fairly incompetent yet very funny director, but also having to make people understand the importance of safety in an airplane in the (unlikely) event of the plane going down. I don't even know which was the funniest part. Broadbent is a delight as always of course, but the X-File reference was as much fun too as Ejiofor very early. Mr. Bean depicting the coin-into-envelope elaboration at the very end was maybe the weakest part and it was still mildly funny and Atkinson fans will appreciate it. Then again, he is a regular at these Comic Relief short films, so it is good he was included. A very simple premise and idea, but good writing turned this into a pretty entertaining watch and I laughed a lot here. Well done to everybody involved. I give this one a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out.
