When ‘The Inbetweeners’ burst onto TV screens around the UK back in 2008 and from what started life as a hysterical sitcom of almost cult status, it has now been transformed into one of the most highly anticipated movie events of the year! The film reached number one at the British box office after just one day mainly due to the success of the TV series, fans of which will not be disappointed. On occasion, translation from the small screen to the cinema can be tragic, but fundamentally, ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ is an hour and a half classic episode.
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| 'The Inbetweeners' Movie' |
Directed by Ben Palmer, the priceless plot follows the four heroes, Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Simon (Joe Thomas) and Neil (Blake Harrison) on their first holiday abroad without their parents. Naturally, there are epic fails and laughs aplenty along the way. What makes this film work so well is the fact that the characters are precisely the same as they appear in the television series, and there is a strong enough storyline to carry the movie as opposed to irrelevant laugh after laugh. Will remains as uptight as ever, Simon as hopeless as ever, Jay as hilariously dis-honest as ever, and Neil just as hysterically slow. As the film is so highly entertaining, this value comes at the expense of the four main characters and their impossibly high hopes. However, the film does depict the Inbetweeners sharing the spotlight with four girls, which works surprisingly well on screen as they are not quite overshadowed.
As usual, pretty much every attempt to get a girl falls right back in the boys’ faces and Simon is still desperately hung up on and inevitably after Carly, who fans of the TV show will know has been a reoccurring storyline throughout the three series. Although some of the gags can come across as crude and somewhat vulgar, the target audience is sure to understand them immediately, and essentially, they carry out their purpose of enhancing the humour. Colloquialisms such as ‘chirpse’ and the mandatory ‘clunge’ make appearances in the movie which simply make the characters more approachable and real to the audience.
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| 'The Inbetweeners' Movie' cast at the world premiere in London |
Although ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ relays heavily on the performances of the four likeable main characters, they all deliver the goods. Think four boys to booze-drenched Malia, along with fall outs, humiliation from the opposite sex, granny pulling, a happy ending for once, along with plenty of Neil’s classic moves. The film is definitely worth seeing, if only to watch the boys reach for the exhausting and seemingly impossible goal of getting laid.
4/5
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