I can't believe that I just wasted half an hour of my life watching this tosh. And I can't believe that David Walliams wrote it. It's so bad. Despite its stellar cast it has no likable (or believable) characters, no jokes, no laughter and no place on the BBC. It looks like a cheap imitation of Jack Whitehall's Bad Education and that was pretty dire itself.
I seriously wonder how much Mr Wallians (and the mysterious Dawson Brothers - are they a circus act?) got paid to create this unfunny mess. And did it really take all of them to write it? Philip Glenister takes on the role of the dumb, insensitive PE teacher which has been seen a thousand times before from The Grimleys to Teachers (where it was done so much better). Catherine Tate goes into automatic putting on a series of silly voices and mugging a lot to the camera but without saying any funny lines. There's a fat caretaker who, get this, eats a lot. And the children playing the school kids sit there in dumb silence most of the time perhaps thinking to themselves "is this really a comedy?. I know that's what I'm thinking.
But perhaps the biggest disappointment is Mr Walliams himself who by accident, or design, seems to have created a character who has not had one single funny line.
Big School? Big Con more like.
I seriously wonder how much Mr Wallians (and the mysterious Dawson Brothers - are they a circus act?) got paid to create this unfunny mess. And did it really take all of them to write it? Philip Glenister takes on the role of the dumb, insensitive PE teacher which has been seen a thousand times before from The Grimleys to Teachers (where it was done so much better). Catherine Tate goes into automatic putting on a series of silly voices and mugging a lot to the camera but without saying any funny lines. There's a fat caretaker who, get this, eats a lot. And the children playing the school kids sit there in dumb silence most of the time perhaps thinking to themselves "is this really a comedy?. I know that's what I'm thinking.
But perhaps the biggest disappointment is Mr Walliams himself who by accident, or design, seems to have created a character who has not had one single funny line.
Big School? Big Con more like.