Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose is the bonkers true story of a 1930s British tabloid sensation that captured the public's imagination. Gef, the allegedly verbose critter, lived on the farm of James Irving at Cashen's Gap in the Isle of Man. Simon Pegg stars as Fodor, a famed Hungarian parapsychologist at the time, who attempted to prove that Gef was a hoax perpetuated by the Irving family as a publicity stunt. The film toys with the possibility of Gef's existence through darkly comic reveals, but posits that accepting Gef as real was an individual choice based on an optimistic outlook. There are a few dry chuckles but a slow pace and lack of supporting character exposition ends up detrimental.
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