Whether it’s called Boyz in the Wood or the newly minted Get Duked! the important thing to note is that this farcical take on The Most Dangerous game has bite...and I’m not just talking about rabbit shites.

Every year, a group of teens head off into the Highlands to win The Duke of Edinburgh Award. Not only does it look good on Uni applications and get kids out of cities and “the perils of urban life,” it also comes with a nifty laminated certificate and a feeling of pride. We’re told this through a VHS video showing brightly smiling teenagers...which contrasts equally brightly with the trio of delinquents who are paying more attention to their phones than the presentation in front of them.

The trio is comprised of Dean (Rian Gordon), who got in trouble for burning down a school toilet, his friend Duncan (Lewis Gribben), who claimed he was just trying to light his shit on fire and DJ Beatroot née MC Dickfire née William Debevooir (a scene-stealing Viraj Juneja), who decided it was a good idea to film his latest music video in front of the blazing inferno. And after the presentation, they’re loaded up in a van by Mr. Carlyle (Jonathan Aris) who drives them, and Ian (Samuel Bottomley), an overachiever who has nothing in common with the trio, into the Highlands, gives them a map and over-complicated instructions on how to reach their destination. Good luck, don’t get lost and, oh, by the way, “the whole thing is fraught with danger and, really, I’m amazed they let teenagers do it...but here we are!”

Left to their own devices, the foursome must overcome hallucinogenic rabbit shites, bored police officers, the perils of open air...and a deranged elderly couple who want to “cull the weakest animals” for the good of the herd.

Get Duked! is stuffed with characters, crisscrossing plots and ridiculous set pieces. Writer/Director Ninian Doff wrings out all manner of style and hilarity from its relatively simple premise by constantly changing the type of humor and its focus throughout the 87 minute runtime. What starts as a fish out of water story about a group of troublemakers and one overachiever struggling to find commonality between themselves, eventually pokes fun at police procedurals and high-AF farmers before settling into a surprising and searing indictment of older generations and their generation wars.

The older, rich and white generation is represented in The Duke (Eddie Izzard) and The Duchess (Georgie Glen), who hunt the group from the get go, riding on horses, swinging antique swords and shouting about how “culture is at risk” and how the “wrong sort of youth are given more opportunities.” And while their very white, very old focus obviously is not-so-subtley tinged with genocide and white nationalism, they also represent an older culture that believes the younger generation are a bunch of fuck-ups. It’s a hilarious portrayal because even though their almost Texas Chainsaw Massacre-like face masks are over-the-top, the words they espouse feel very prescient.

But Ninian Doff isn’t content with just this angle to the story as he introduces a pair of bumbling cops whose top priority was a Bread Thief before they get involved with the teenager’s escalating situations. And finally there’s the rabbit shites; the kind of civet coffee of drugs and the hilarious inventive way they feature into the story. All of these disparate themes and stories somehow leads to a hallucinogenic music video that manages to pull together everything into one trippy bit of visual ingenuity. A phenomenal mix of music, hip-hop, storytelling and character beats that actually manages to pull everything together in a hilarious package.

Whether it’s called Boyz in the Wood or Get Duked! this film is a hilarious parable of class warfare, generational divides and inventive hallucinogenic imagery. Even when some of the jokes, like a running gag with an errant bus, become a bit predictable, it’s filled with enough style and heart that I found myself laughing through the entire movie. And the image of a group of disparate youths coming together and joining forces to fight for their future is surprisingly emotional. Highly recommended.