Film Review: The Inbetweeners Movie

Director: Ben Palmer

After three TV series on E4 in the UK, one grand finale was required for the boys as a send off and it was decided that it would be feature film (although it has since become apparant that a 4th series will be made, shame). Compared to it's budget it made a huge profit at the box office and set a record for the most successful opening weekend ever achieved by a comedy film in the UK beating the previous record by The Hangover II.

The film follows the 4 boys as they decide to venture on a summer holiday to Malia after Simon is dumped his girlfriend Carly. Once they arrive they enjoy the usual drunken debauchery that is expected on a lads holiday in Greece and lots of the usual crude jokes that made the original TV series so popular.

Will, Simon, Jay and Neil in Malia

The laughs are certainly there in this film but everything is very much as you would expect beforehand. The same characters have similar jokes to what they had in the TV series with Neil doing stupid things and Simon proving he's useless with woman. It's not really a film you could watch having not seen it on TV with so many jokes that are funnier because you know the characters, but since I did I laughed at some hilarious moments.

The plot and jokes wear a bit thin at many stages of the movie, the big problem TV programs have when they run a feature length film of 90mins or more is having enough happening or enough funny jokes which is where The Inbetweeners Movie falls short. This aside it's still an enjoyable flick and guaranteed to be a hundred times better than any American remake.

2.5/4 usual fun and crude jokes but wears thin over the 90mins