The Inbetweeners Movie
This film is very funny. This is the problem with comedies, what more do you say without giving away all the jokes, especially all out comedies like this that rely on characterisation and sight gags galore. So lets start with a little history to set the mood after lighting the candles, dimming the lights and putting on the Marvin Gaye. In 2006 a series called Skins was made for channel 4 about a group of hip young things taking drugs, drinking alcohol, having sex and generally being cooler than you. While this show was great and all a lot of people thought it gave an unrealistic view of teenagers as we aren't all having sex, doing drugs and being cool. Hence the formation of the inbetweeners. The anti-Skins so to speak, although Skins in recent series has kind of become the anti-Skins.
The Inbetweeners follows the journey of Will, a private school boy who has been transferred into a more-realistic-than-skins 6th form and picks up a small group of misfits friends along the way. This series was incredibly popular and ran for three seasons although it was well known that by the end of the third series the crew was just re-hashing new jokes. Following this someone had the bright (and it was very bright) idea to create it into a feature length film continuing the boys journey from school onto a summer holiday together. I don't think I need to explain what happens what goes on holiday together but let me just say, hilarity does indeed ensue.
This film, featuring full frontal nudity, puking, sex with grannies and graphic pictures of faeces has made it to the number one grossing british comedy of all time. I mean I'm all for it but does that say anything about our culture that intelligent comedies aren't getting the time of day in movie theatres? Then again this is more high brow than the previous record holder Bridget Jones's: The Edge Of Reason. Onto the movie. I do have one big issue about the film though. The shlong to boob ratio is way off where we see more spam javelins than bouncing babylons. This is something that has been going on throughout British humour harking back to at the very least the Life of Brian. I mean brilliant film but it seems that the Americans and British have a different sense of humour when it comes to nudity. It's very rare that in a British film you're expected to laugh because someone's got their boobs out, but when their shlongs hanging in the wind its fair game. I say no, more boobs and less self-fellatio in movies...much less.
Although the film is hilarious and gives a great, almost realistic view of going on holiday without the parents (I recognised many of the places from when I was in Magaluf) it isn't without its flaws. There seems to have been some wasted potential in a way as they obviously had too many ideas but the studio didn't think they would get audiences with a running time over 97 minutes so it seems like there was going to be more. One critic said that the film is "entirely predictable" but if you predicted some of the stuff that happens, you would have a pretty messed up mind. As do the creators of the show/film obviously.
Also watching this film without watching the whole of the series previously is possible but not recommended as a lot of the humor comes fromt he characterisation of the leads. The only way that this would work in countries like America is if you had to sit through the first three seasons before you went into the cinema to watch this film, maybe they could install a quiz system or asked if they laughed at the phrases "briefacse", "bus w*****ers" or "footbal fweeend"
As I said before, this film is funny, but I can't tell you why because it would ruin the surprise. You need to watch it, even if you dislike it its now part of British history and its pretty funny that this film beat a mushy romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, showing that adolescents are more important to cinema than lonely women vicariously living through Renée Zellweger. After a whip round it seems that there is a general consensus of the scores between people I saw it with and they all said 8 out of 10. Well this is a dictatorship of a review not a democracy so I'll do whatever I want and I'm going to completely ignore your scores. I'm going to give it 8 out of 10 due to the hilariousness of the entire thing. Even though I said there's not much to say because it's a comedy this is actually probably my longest review. Go me!
The Inbetweeners follows the journey of Will, a private school boy who has been transferred into a more-realistic-than-skins 6th form and picks up a small group of misfits friends along the way. This series was incredibly popular and ran for three seasons although it was well known that by the end of the third series the crew was just re-hashing new jokes. Following this someone had the bright (and it was very bright) idea to create it into a feature length film continuing the boys journey from school onto a summer holiday together. I don't think I need to explain what happens what goes on holiday together but let me just say, hilarity does indeed ensue.
This film, featuring full frontal nudity, puking, sex with grannies and graphic pictures of faeces has made it to the number one grossing british comedy of all time. I mean I'm all for it but does that say anything about our culture that intelligent comedies aren't getting the time of day in movie theatres? Then again this is more high brow than the previous record holder Bridget Jones's: The Edge Of Reason. Onto the movie. I do have one big issue about the film though. The shlong to boob ratio is way off where we see more spam javelins than bouncing babylons. This is something that has been going on throughout British humour harking back to at the very least the Life of Brian. I mean brilliant film but it seems that the Americans and British have a different sense of humour when it comes to nudity. It's very rare that in a British film you're expected to laugh because someone's got their boobs out, but when their shlongs hanging in the wind its fair game. I say no, more boobs and less self-fellatio in movies...much less.
Although the film is hilarious and gives a great, almost realistic view of going on holiday without the parents (I recognised many of the places from when I was in Magaluf) it isn't without its flaws. There seems to have been some wasted potential in a way as they obviously had too many ideas but the studio didn't think they would get audiences with a running time over 97 minutes so it seems like there was going to be more. One critic said that the film is "entirely predictable" but if you predicted some of the stuff that happens, you would have a pretty messed up mind. As do the creators of the show/film obviously.
Also watching this film without watching the whole of the series previously is possible but not recommended as a lot of the humor comes fromt he characterisation of the leads. The only way that this would work in countries like America is if you had to sit through the first three seasons before you went into the cinema to watch this film, maybe they could install a quiz system or asked if they laughed at the phrases "briefacse", "bus w*****ers" or "footbal fweeend"
As I said before, this film is funny, but I can't tell you why because it would ruin the surprise. You need to watch it, even if you dislike it its now part of British history and its pretty funny that this film beat a mushy romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, showing that adolescents are more important to cinema than lonely women vicariously living through Renée Zellweger. After a whip round it seems that there is a general consensus of the scores between people I saw it with and they all said 8 out of 10. Well this is a dictatorship of a review not a democracy so I'll do whatever I want and I'm going to completely ignore your scores. I'm going to give it 8 out of 10 due to the hilariousness of the entire thing. Even though I said there's not much to say because it's a comedy this is actually probably my longest review. Go me!