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Charming and silly: Sam & Max – The Devil’s Playhouse reviewed

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

7 September 2024

9:00 AM

Grade: B

Readers of a certain age (mine, roughly) may have fond memories of 1993’s Sam & Max Hit the Road – a joyously silly and absorbing two-dimensional point-and-click adventure starring the ‘Freelance Police’: a tubby cartoon Irish wolfhound called Sam and his partner Max, a ‘hyperkinetic rabbity thing’ with a propensity for random violence.

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