The Manager of The Cobblers Arms, the most feared side in the Northern pub league, persuades Arthur to become involved in a seemingly hopeless bet to train a team of deadbeats, The Wheatsheaf, to play against his team.
Arthur readily accepts the challenge before realizing what a mammoth uphill struggle it would be
A chance meeting with Hazel Scott, a fitness instructor with her own gym, gives him an idea and between them they have just eight weeks to persuade, and bully the reluctant Wheatsheaf into a team capable of beating The Cobblers Arms.
Something which hasn't been done for ten years....
Up 'n' Under would never have been made if The Full Monty wasn't such a success, because this is that film, but covered up as a game of Rugby.
The rag tag team are what you expect, Morrisey is basically playing his Character from Men Behaving Badly, and it wears thin very very quickly. Janus as she was known then is only in it to do a certain scene, but surprisingly, she along with Olsen, are the best things about the team, because they have arcs, arcs that you care for.
Griff Rhys Jones pops up as a sweary commentator and too, becomes quite irritating at times.
It's all very predictable stuff, but not unwatchable, as you know they will all get along at first, fight and fall out toward the end of the second act, and the final third, it doesn't take a genius to guess who will be victorious.
It's alright for a sunday afternoon Geezer Pleaser.
Arthur readily accepts the challenge before realizing what a mammoth uphill struggle it would be
A chance meeting with Hazel Scott, a fitness instructor with her own gym, gives him an idea and between them they have just eight weeks to persuade, and bully the reluctant Wheatsheaf into a team capable of beating The Cobblers Arms.
Something which hasn't been done for ten years....
Up 'n' Under would never have been made if The Full Monty wasn't such a success, because this is that film, but covered up as a game of Rugby.
The rag tag team are what you expect, Morrisey is basically playing his Character from Men Behaving Badly, and it wears thin very very quickly. Janus as she was known then is only in it to do a certain scene, but surprisingly, she along with Olsen, are the best things about the team, because they have arcs, arcs that you care for.
Griff Rhys Jones pops up as a sweary commentator and too, becomes quite irritating at times.
It's all very predictable stuff, but not unwatchable, as you know they will all get along at first, fight and fall out toward the end of the second act, and the final third, it doesn't take a genius to guess who will be victorious.
It's alright for a sunday afternoon Geezer Pleaser.