The Inbetweeners

For people who don't know what this is? Please watch the series or get the boxset. This film is hilarious. One thing I would like to say is that the lads are back. It kind of represents what most of us get up to or can reference I person we know. I won't put anything that will spoil the show. Basically, the lads have finished 6th form and are now on holiday. Plenty of jokes and hilarious moments. Only back thing is that the whole series is now complete and finished. Pity. Must watch. Just don't watch the film when you are tired.

I am an avid movie enthusiast, and I almost always persevere through movies which seem to get off to a slow start, but this one was so awful I had to throw in the towel after about 10 minutes. I think the general idea was to make a movie in the sophomoric, raunchy comedy genre, sort of like Van Wilder or American Pie. Unfortunately, The Inbetweeners never attains anything approaching actual comedy. The main descriptive terms which come to mind are animalistic, degrading and boring. This movie is about as entertaining as letting your dog hump your leg for 90 minutes. The lead male characters are nerdy nebbishes who are unredeemed by any winsome teen angst. The remaining characters are downright loathsome. Zero entertainment value.

I really wanted to like this as i loved the TV series but i thought it was a bit lacking~ Don't get me wrong there are funny moments but i think watching 2 TV episodes back to back would be funnier than this~ Some of the jokes didn't really work especially at the start and some were either old or obvious or seen before in the TV series~ I just felt that maybe the whole inbetweeners franchise has had its day~ While the TV show will probably be shown over and over on Gold i suspect the film will float off into the ether ~ shame~

It's just a movie and it should just entertain but thats so far away from reality that I wasn't able to laugh about anything because this illogicalness annoyed me so much. It was like when I watched Episode II and Padme fell in love with Anakin because of nothing - just because it had to happen, even though he acted like a total moron. That's what happens in this movie all the time. Three of the four boys always do the worst thing possible but the girls stick with them as if they were the only boys on the island. In some parts it's so frustrating, that I wanted to leave the cinema. And then it really wants to end like a love story as if that was the way people may fall in love, although everybody knows it wouldn't even happen in the Twilight Zone. And OMG don't let me start about a guy who wants to go to college and gives away all his clothes to a stranger trusting... no seriously. If you really don't care whats actually happening in this movie besides the comedy, you might be able to find this kinda funny but if you even need the tiniest piece of logic, you may prolly just sit there shaking your head. Definitely one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

**** may contain spoilers**** A frustrating one this. As a big screen adaptation, you are expecting to take your characters out of their comfort zone and on to the big screen. To do this you would expect a) a new setting (easily done), b) references to the small screen equivalents (minimal) and c) some depth and character development (non-existent). In terms of b), references were thin on the ground. The characters were themselves, a few minor characters made cameos (John and Mark pale in comparison to Mr Gilbert's shining 30 seconds) but the word 'clunge' was decidedly absent. Did the producers not think people would 'get' this? No reference to Will 'almost' losing his virginity, when asked? In terms of c) this was most frustrating. The boys are at a crossroads in their lives, and the movie could have explored this. We get little hints of things about to change: Simon and Jay drifting apart, talk of University, Jay's ongoing Dad-issues; it's like these plot points are touched upon but not at all explored. Superbad is a great lesson in tastefully handled sub-plots like this. Ultimately, a frustrating movie. It lacked the spark that the free-flowing dialogue of TV provided, as well as lacking the depth beyond 'dick & fart' jokes that the big screen requires.

I can't believe the rating this thing has! I was totally disappointed from the first minute on. The dialogues were so meaningless, the jokes so dumb, English humor was nowhere to be found in this movie. No further comments about the movie in general - it is just not worth your time, it is an absolute loss. But the thing that shocked me the most was how it represented the island of Crete! IT IS NOTHING, NOTHING LIKE THIS! Not only in Crete, but nowhere in Greece! Have the directors even been to Greece, or like the guys in the movie they have never left dark and foggy UK?! How could you present a place so wonderful in such an untrue way?! This is absolutely unacceptable! I have been to Greece like ten times on long vacations and I can tell you that with what is shown in this movie, the people that have created it made huge fools out of themselves! There are NO such nasty hotels in Crete/Greece, NO such mentality, NO such promiscuous women in the streets and NO such social environment at all!!! If any nation in the world knows anything about tourism and hospitality, this is the Greek nation. Really, I was beyond shocked with this, really! If it was somehow up to me, I would sue the people that brought together this nonsense! To make the long story short - for God sakes, if you respect yourself, do not loose your time and brain with this... Sad story!

Despite this British sitcom's surprisingly far-reaching fan base (not a single seat of the four hundred in my cinema was left unoccupied) I still find myself having to explain the show to family members, casual acquaintances and my favourite movie-loving cab driver on the way home. So, a quick recap. The premise is simple: we follow four friends on the fringe of social status, somewhere between the 'normal kids' and the 'freaks', as they meander their way through high school and its teenage perils. There's the nerdy but level-headed narrator Will (Simon Bird), selfish relationship-dependent Simon (Joe Thomas), compulsive liar and big-noter Jay (James Buckley) and lovable dimwit Neil (Blake Harrison). The film picks up, naturally, during the last day of school. The boys decide to book a party holiday to Greece to help Simon get over his break-up with Carli, but things get hairy when Simon, who is at the furthest point from being over his ex, spots her on the same trip. If I had to justify why I loved this film with one sentence, it would be this: at no point does it stray from the formula that made the show so refreshing. The humour is there, as are the scenes of incredible social awkwardness, but this consistency begins with proper characterisation. Every fan of the show has a personal favourite, and should be pleased to hear that their move to the big screen has not coerced creators Beesley and Morris into thinking they should customise the characters to suit a wider audience. By the end of the film, each of the four is in an inherently better position in their life than they were two hours ago, but how they all get there remains entrenched in typical Inbetweeners fashion. What does this mean exactly? It means that the screenplay puts individual character development on the backburner for most of the film, instead preferring to fill every scene with a truckload of jokes ranging from slapstick, the spoken word and a merciless array of cringe-worthy moments; the kind that have become the niche of the series. In any other genre this could be considered a sour point, but comedies are granted exceptions on the basis that they exist primarily to entertain, not to provide a moral, or indeed, much deep thinking at all. Does each character learn something about their life through their experience in Greece? Sure. Should we expect them to let the rest of their life be guided by these same profound moments of clarity? I doubt it. Anyone even slightly familiar with the series would be aware of its unrelentingly crude subject matter, which some might interpret as vulgar or even offensive. That's a personal call, and while it doesn't concern my comedic sensibilities in the slightest, I must warn the more politically correct among us that this is not a movie for you. Few social taboos are left undisturbed, and when you couple this with the notion that filmmakers can get away with a lot more on the big screen (a saying that rings especially true for The Inbetweeners), it is recommended that fence-sitters have a long think about how they feel about the series, lest they return home with the unexplained compulsion to take a boiling hot bath and scrub until a little skin comes off. If I had to make a couple of minor criticisms, I would say that a handful of party clichés are overdone (see: front-on shots of friends walking in slow- motion through a club with big grins on their faces) and that some realism is lost when Simon appears too gullible to be believed (you'll know it when you see it). However, these moments are few and far between, and fail to detract from making this the funniest movie I've seen in a good few years. *There's nothing I love more than a bit of feedback, good or bad. So drop me a line on jnatsis@iprimus.com.au and let me know what you thought of my review.*

While I accept that the series might have provided a silly entertainment to a fan base of sorts,this effort lacks so much in so many departments that I wouldn't even consider it a film. For anyone unfamiliar with the series,the characters and their respective actors offer absolutely nothing of any value,and neither does the "plot". It just paints a very grim picture of British youth and deteriorating British culture,forcing the audience to watch the British humour being reduced to a mixture of awkwardness,scatology and frustrated bing-drinking twats desperate to indulge in mindless sex in any shape or form. A truly horrible thing to watch and waste your time on.

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