The Inbetweeners Movie

Will, Simon, Jay & Neil
(From Left to Right)

So the 4 rapscallions that are: Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are back on our screens, this time of the 180” kind. After seeing this advertised for quite some time, I managed to pucker up the courage to watch the 3 series “straight” with my fiancée. Just before I started watching the first series I had reservations of what it was going to be like, for some reason I had the idea that it would be an awful attempt at comedy, however I was pleasantly surprised and what I thought would be a whim actually turned into something addictive. Although childish, I found the 3 Series, somewhat refreshing as it was something I could relate to from when I was at school, (I sound like a right old man there).

With Will being Brainy and Sarcastic, Simon falling haplessly in love with every girl he sees and being extremely horrible to his loving mother, Jay being the crude one and Neil being the dumb lovable rogue type with his possibly gay father. The mix of cast is excellent and its nice to see some up and coming talent, which unfortunately our TVs are not used to due to being covered with crap like the “Only Way Is Essex”, and the sad excuse for a show they call “Big Brother”, it goes from bad to worse when our media will brand them with names like “Famous” and “Reality Star”, but that’s a whole other story/blog and the rest they say is history.

So back to the Inbetweeners. I enjoyed the first 3 series, I was disappointed with the fact that there were only 6 episodes per series but grew to understand that they must have had the movie in their minds the whole time filming, so in order for the characters to grow they had to slow the amount of time that each series took up (in terms of in front of camera time).

Anyway, one of the first things you notice about the film is that it has a good budget for a TV series, firstly showing off the camera work (which could possibly be CGI too) buzzing round the town that they all live in and secondly with the setting of most of the film being in Malia, apart from that its pretty much just like the TV series, accept with a lot more punch lines and many, many more embarrassing moments.

The basic premise of the film is basically for 5 whole weeks the lads have been living their lives as normal apart from the fact that Simon has finally managed to bag the love of his life Carly Di Marco, that is until 30 seconds into the film, she suggests that they break up as they are both going to universities, so with some highly comedic moments the lads decide to take Simon to Malia to find someone that could help him to get over her, however there are many problems in the way, One of them being Carly also being in Malia at the same time, something Neil forgot to mention.
So, once the film had ended I was gutted to remember that this would be the final thing they did together as a group, as there is no Series 4, hopefully they will change their mind as the film is an excellent addition to the already funny series, and you get to know the characters even more. If you have ever been on a lads holiday or a ladies holiday (if that’s the right wording) then you can completely understand what they go through as a group, you can’t help but laugh and feel sorry for them at the same time.

The soundtrack is awesome with many classic songs from club nights and some golden oldies in there too, I would definitely like to see if they release an official soundtrack, it would definitely sell well.

In the end its one of those films I would definitely recommend to everyone apart from the grandparents, they might find quite a few scenes offensive. I would even go to far as to say you could watch the film on its own and not worry about the series, but they both compliment each other extremely well. On the whole an excellent film, one of those Friday night films with a beer (or rose for the young lady) and some pizza.

Storyline: 8/10

Soundtrack: 9/10

Characters: 10/10

Overall Rating: 9/10

Josh BRCB

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