Burke and Hare (15) ****

Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, and Isla Fisher.

I found it amusing to see how a failed attempt to scrape a living selling cheese mold as a miracle, all-curing moss, turned into a lucrative business selling the recently deceased (who you have helped shuffle off this mortal coil) to a medical college.

The film follows the exploits of Irish Burke (Pegg) and Hare (Serkis) in Edinburgh as they struggle to make ends meet, when they find that the local medical college is offering great rewards for cadavers. This leads, as is so often the case, to the pair needing to be more inventive in their means of collecting bodies than the standard grave robbing.

After two successful sells, the pair begin a host of bungled attempts to 'acquire' new cadavers, with some fairly humourous results, and an introduction into the 1828 Edinburgh underworld.

In a round-about way, this leads to Burke meeting Ginny (Fisher), a local lady of the night who wants to get into the more legitimate business of acting. With the introduction of Ginny, the film takes a turn to detail Burkes quest to get his jollies.

This is a murderous romp to provide money, sex and, of course, laughs - a thoroughly enjoyable 91mins, encompassing a glorious Hammer style gore, and a humourous style that is quintessentially Simon Pegg.