The Inbetweeners Movie

The success rate of films that make the leap from the small screen to the big screen is not always good. For every good one there are several bad. This might be one of the better ones.

Before watching this film I had never seen an episode of the TV series 'The Inbetweeners'. When I heard the movie was coming out I decided to try and see if I could judge the film without any preconceived notions. One of the problems I had with the film is that I should have watched the TV series. I would have liked a bit more character development of the guys. The writers assume that most people would have seen the TV series so therefore know and understand the characters. But they need to take into account there are people out there such as myself who may not have seen the series. But in saying that it is probably not the type of film that needs a lot of character. The story is a fairly typical one of a group of teenage boys on holiday trying to get as much sex as possible. We've seen the story many times before and we know what will happen and what type of guys are involved. This being an English film does help. Not only do the accents make it refreshingly different from the endless American versions of this story that we get but the humour is a little different too. The only other problem I had is with the boys attitude towards women. Or I should say women's attitude towards them. As is typical with films like this the guys do not treat the women all that well. However the women seem to forgive them for their stupidity a little too easily. It would have been nicer if the guys had to work harder at gaining forgiveness from these girls. Their nerdy charm seem to go along way.

These are a very good group of young actors. The years of working on the TV show has made them work well as a group and give them great comedic sensibility. As is the case with groups there is one who gets the short end of the stick, especially with a big group like this. Poor Blake Harrison as Neil does not have much of a story line compared to the rest of the group. All he does is pursue older women. Which can be a bit amusing but it would have been nice of his character had more to do. As Will, Simon Bird I found to be the most interesting. Maybe because that while he is trying to have sex he seems less sleazy about it compared to his friends.

Fans of the TV series will no doubt get more out of this. Those that have not seen it will have a few laughs, even it is a story we've seen many times before.