Reviews

Don't get me wrong - I loved The Inbetweeners series, which packed a freshness and sparkle that far outshone many of the pallid comedic offerings of the late noughties. In all accounts, sadly, I feel the film failed to capture the magic of the show.

The movie plot positively throbs with potential - horny teens, a chavvy holiday destination, a pot of money from a dead grandparent. What could go wrong? Sadly the characters proved utterly skin-deep, the jokes were sparse and predictable, and the finale an embarrassment with the characters' half-baked romances.

The television series were a warm and funny reflection on the trials of Brit adolescence. This film provides a few banal little holiday vignettes and a poo joke. Disappointing.

Hmm...This film had received such a lot of acclaim, I really wanted to follow suit and love it too.

No doubt, it has some quotable gaffs - and the roguish Guy Richie-esquire characters certainly entertain - but I didn't even begin to engage in what turned out to be a thoroughly lukewarm bit of storytelling. The thing is, 'In Bruges' really WANTS to have charm. And it desperately wants to bear the chicness of finer British classics. I feel it fails on both accounts.

Give it a rent if you're bored one night. But don't expect to emerge bedazzled, as some would have you believe.