With Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle proved he was one of
the funniest people in the world. And with The Road to Mars he
reaffirms this with a raucously sidesplitting vengence.
Muscroft and Ashby are a comedy team on "The Road to Mars," an
interplanetary vaudeville circuit of the future. Accompanied by Carlton,
a robot incapable of understanding irony but driven to learn the essence
of humor, Alex and Lewis bumble their way into an intergalactic
terrorist plot. Supported by a delicious cast, including a
micropaleontologist narrator (he studies the evolutionary impact of the
last ten minutes) and the ultra-diva Brenda Woolley, The Road to
Mars is a fabulous trip through Eric Idle's inimitable world, a
"universe expanding at the speed of laughter."
