Winterbottom’s Cock And Bull Story is, as you would expect from the director of Nine Songs, happily explicit when it comes to both bulls and cocks. And whilst the bulls come into it near the end the cocks are liberally peppered in the film. The largest surprise therefore from the erect penis master is that all of these cocks belongs to infants and children.
From a more metaphorical viewpoint Steve Coogan is a cock. Which is odd as he is ostensibly the hero and ostensibly the lead comic in the film. But much like some sort of latter day Tony Hancock figure he is the least funny character in the film, despite attempts otherwise he is the hapless straight-man, whose self importance and tiredness in the end make him rather sad and surprisingly sympathetic. A fun bit of fluff, with nothing deep to say except narrative rules are bunkum, and give two bickering comedians a topic and a yard of film and they will probably make you laugh.