Will, Neil, Simon and Jay, four socially troubled eighteen-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Crete.
The humour is very lads’ mag, excessively so at times, but there’s a core of sweetness about the quite fab four that makes you forgive them a lot. The closer you are to the 15 age certificate the funnier you’ll find it.
Like any holiday, it is episodic and suffers from repetition but this is gag-for-gag the funniest film of the summer and a fitting end to a much-loved series. So long boys, it’s been great to know you.
They could have called it British Pie, but this TV sitcom spin-off updates the teen summer holiday formula surprisingly entertainingly, considering it doesn't subvert it one iota.
Affection for the characters will bring fans in. But many will leave wishing the makers of one of the most enjoyable programmes of recent years had left well enough alone.
The Inbetweeners Movie will be an enormous hit, a Mamma Mia! for the Hangover demographic. And it works better than you might expect, because the boys’ neediness — for each other, not just the exhausting goal of scoring “clunge” — is ever-apparent.
Crude, but extremely funny.
The film won't be to everyone's tastes but if you're after fun and silliness and a reminder of the perils of being young, you're sure to enjoy this celebration of the ordinary teenager - in all its messy glory.
A painfully amusing watch.
The Inbetweeners, having successfully overcome the debilitating influence of Grange Hill, was in a prime position to do that and, perhaps if all involved had taken a few more notes from Armando Iannuci's In the Loop (one of the few TV-to-cinema spin-offs that actually worked), this might have been the film to break the mould. Instead, it's just another needless spin-off destined to wring what will likely be a considerable sum of cash out of TV show that had already reached its natural end point.
Like the series, it's an acutely observed, sweet-natured portrait of teenage friendship and middle-class British callowness. And like the series, it's fabulously rude and crude.
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