My knowledge of Foghorn Leghorn is somewhat limited. While I\u2019m aware that he\u2019s a cartoon character with a distinct southern American accent, my main references derive from my father\u2019s finely sharpened impressions, usually a mix of \u2018I say I say boy\u2019 and \u2018Put a bit of pepper on it, son\u2019. But the accent took on a persona of its own when Daniel Craig shed the suit of Bond in favour of the charismatic Benoit Blanc. It was accent that waxed lyrical about the mysteries of donut holes and their inception-like complexities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
While those donut holes don\u2019t get a mention in Rian Johnson\u2019s stylish sequel, we do get to hear about the multiple layers of onions, courtesy of the main glass building where the mysteries play out. And while the Benoit Blanc we met in the first Knives Out<\/em> was a relative fish out of water, announcing his presence with a single dramatic piano note, the Blanc we meet here has the whole music sheet laid out in front of him. Puzzles are at the forefront pf the play from the film\u2019s opening sequence, and the dapper detective is an adept player. Maybe not at Among Us, though. But I can sympathise with that. I wasn\u2019t a particularly elusive imposter either. Set in the lockdown slump of 2020, it was pretty odd hearing Blanc reference Among Us, Quiplash and Codenames, all games I played with my chums during the same period. No, I didn\u2019t play them in a bath wearing an eccentric hat with a rubber duck in range as Blanc did, but I played them nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After receiving and completing a mysterious puzzle, Blanc is invited to the exotic island residence of billionaire Miles Bron, where a murder mystery game is interrupted by a real-life murder, forcing Blanc to find the killer. Like the original, Glass Onion<\/em> is a fun, colourful and playful journey filled with mystery and light comedy, and the cast is perhaps even starrier than the previous offering. While you don\u2019t exactly need to be Sherlock Holmes \u2013 or Benoit Blanc \u2013 to work out the identity of the killer, it\u2019s still fun looking at all the suspects, even though we don\u2019t have the same novelty of actors playing against type. We no longer have Chris Evans (America\u2019s ass) playing against type as Ransom Drysdale (America\u2019s asshole), or Michael Shannon (angry powerful Zod) challenging expectations as Walt Thrombey (weak diminutive Zod). But we do have welcome exaggerated performances from Dave Bautista (essentially Drax with toxic social media accounts) and Kathryn Hahn (Agatha on a sugar rush).<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it\u2019s the exaggeration that\u2019s one of Glass Onion<\/em>\u2019s highlights. It wears its Agatha Christie tropes on its sleeves while playing with amusing repeated dialogue \u2013 instead of peppering Blanc\u2019s lexicon with \u2018donut hole\u2019, we are instead introduced to his delightfully pronounced \u2018buttress\u2019, turning a relatively innocent word into some strangely intriguing form of innuendo. Craig is on fine form as always, and, with a Blancverse in the works from Netflix<\/em>, we can look forward to many eccentric ventures to come, perhaps threatening to overturn Craig\u2019s legacy as the straightlaced British spy. The name\u2019s Blanc. Benoit Blanc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My knowledge of Foghorn Leghorn is somewhat limited. While I\u2019m aware that he\u2019s a cartoon character with a distinct southern American accent, my main references derive from my father\u2019s finely sharpened impressions, usually a mix of \u2018I say I say boy\u2019 and \u2018Put a bit of pepper on it, son\u2019. But the accent took on … <\/p>\n