Director: Ben Palmer
Cast: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 97 minutes
Synopsis: Will, Neil, Simon and Jay, four socially troubled eighteen-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Crete. Hoping for a two week sex crazed holiday as usual the boys plans never go the way they were hoping in this big screen follow-up E4’s cult hit show THE INBETWEENERS.
British comedy transitions from television screens to the silver screen have hardly set the world alight in terms of both commercial and critical success over the decades. Classic sitcoms such as STEPTOE AND SON, RISING DAMP and PORRIDGE are just a few successful series that have struggled to find the magic they created when being beamed into our living rooms.The more recent efforts of ALI G and the awful BOTTOM movie GUEST HOUSE PARADISO have faired even worse. Aimed squarely at the fans of the E4 television show that has gained them their cult following comes the creators attempts at THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE.
Regular series Director Ben Palmer and writers/creators Iain Morris and Damon Beasley have with their previous three INBETWEENERS series in their hands an AMERICAN PIE and PORKYS style set up that when seen on the big screen may just have had movie goers and even their fans saying ‘been there before too many times’, which is understandable that they have taken the four likeable leads away from Blighty and their school surroundings after the opening acts school term ends and send them on what they hope will be a sex crazed holiday to Malia in Crete when Joe Thomas’ Simon is dumped by girlfriend Carli (Emily Head). As always James Buckley’s foul-mouthed Jay is centre stage with the embarrassing situations and gross-out gags along with Blake Harrison’s dim witted Neil whose blank faced expressions even raise a smile or a giggle when the rest of the cast are delivering their lines. Simon Bird who plays the level headed brilliantly awkward Will perfectly always trying to keep the rest of the boys from total embarrassment with out much success.
Throughout many of the comic exchanges and set ups they are some that may find are tired clichéd moments, the usual ‘turd’ scene seems as if it has been done countless times now in films like this, even if it still raises a smile, while we all know James Buckley’s Jay throws the foul-language around like confetti during the three series, but even I was amazed at how much more extreme it seemed in the movie.
As a film the transition from television to cinema screens is barely noticeable and could easily have been seen as a one off special but who can blame the creators for wanted to milk the show by taking the next logical step and give its fans and target audience exactly what they want, a great night out with their friends with a bundle of laugh out loud moments. Fans of the show will and should no doubt flock the see this in their droves just as they did for the similar in setting and tone KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE which just also happened be a spin off television creation. Go figure!
Release Date 17th August 2011
