Wednesday, 14 December 2011
The Inbetweeners movie (2011)
In 7 words or less: Foul-mouthed teens get what they deserve.
What's it all About? The gang of losers have finished their A-Levels and are determined to enjoy the hell out of the summer, so they book a holiday in Greece with Jay's dead grans inheritance.
Best bits? Neil dropping everything he's holding once his shift at Asda is done (6pm) and publicly heavy-petting his girlfriend behind the fish counter.
They've quite realistically rendered a 17 year olds lads holiday here. Depressing as it is funny. It makes me thank god that I'm not that age again.
Other fun moments include Some funny dancing, men getting slapped on the cock, self felatio, puking, pooing, swearing, dry humping, boobs, cocks, drinking and basic mischief.
Did it make you think thoughts? As with most TV turned movie projects, they attempt to up the shock factor of the gags, which are move visual than the TV series. But whilst it feels ruder the gag rate has also dropped, so it feels slower and I think a lot of people would take that to mean that this is weaker than the TV series. But it's a necessity in an extended episode to have a bigger story, otherwise, what's the point; they should just stick to the series.
There seem to be a few more cheap, obvious gags in this than you come to expect from the series too. I'm not sure what that is all about. It's a hell of a lot to ask to keep an entire film funny with this kind of toilet humour. Something that wouldn't work at all without Simon Bird's Will, pulling the whole thing together. Which without, this would start to take on a Kevin and Perry tinge.
Would you watch it again? Yeah! I could go for another view. There are plenty of laughs here.
Rating (out of 100%): 68% As funny as it could have been. Not as sharp as the series.