Updated On: 23 January, 2015 01:07 PM IST | | MIhir Fadnavis
<p>If only the director David Koepp had spent more time writing good jokes instead of focusing on Johnny Depp's star power to propel 'Mortdecai' forward</p>

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'Mortdecai'
U/A; Action/Comedy
Director: David Koepp
Cast: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn
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After a massive dip in his career Johnny Depp had a renaissance when the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' released in 2003. It seemed like we finally had an action adventure hero plus a great performer who also exuded comedic chops. Since then he's made three sequels, and plenty more movies where he's played a garish and quirky character wearing outlandish clothes and doing even stranger things. The film titles change, but his necessity to be cartoonish doesn't. Such is also the case with his latest film 'Mortdecai'.