I wasn't too sure what to expect going into the cinema to see this. I loved the TV series and was a bit worried the film would really let it down like has been the case with other comedies in the past e.g. 'Kevin and Perry go large', 'Bean: the ultimate disaster movie', etc but this is still great! the only thing i would say is that for the movie to really work they shouldn't have made a third series which tied up endings for the characters as none of this has been referenced in the film - Pauline and Mickey aren't married, Edward and Tubbs are alive and Papa Lazarou is, well...himself. although when you consider the storyline, the characters aren't actually being written about anymore. so it does makes sense.
as i said I'm a fan of the series and the movie isn't perhaps laugh out loud all the way through (though there are hilarious moments galore in the first 30 minutes) but thats OK because where it lacks in hilarity, it makes up for in the plot. And this is where it differs to most comedy series that go into a movie. The Storyline is really good and cleverly done, not only is it a cool idea to have the characters hunt down their writers who have stopped writing about them (and therefore begins the apocalypse of Royston Vasey), its great to involve a completely different scenario which they are apparently writing, set centuries ago where three men (played of course by Pemberton, Gatiss and Shearsmith) are plotting an assassination of the King and Queen. After three of the characters from Royston Vasey have kidnapped Steve Pemberton, they discover this new work on his laptop and step forward Geoff Tipps who writes himself into that world "suddenly a man named Geoff Tipps with a huge cock comes forward and saves the King!"
David Warner is great as the evil Erasmus Pea, who refers to Geoff Tipps by the name in his coat as "George of ASDA" how superb!
what is also clever is the fact that most of the time it is just the three actors in one scene together, regardless of which character is used or if its them as their-selves.
i wasn't sure what i was expecting, i had heard good reviews and as a result i partly suspected a big let-down, thank god i wasn't. the reviews were right, this really is a good movie, i came out very impressed and in fact saw it twice at the cinema (the first time i've ever seen a film twice at the cinema) the first time i saw it was with two friends who are big League of Gentlemen fans. My girlfriend wanted to see it, and i jumped at the chance to see it again.
I really would recommend this. Good film, excellent writing, brilliant script, although this really is for fans of the show and not for someone who's never seen an episode ever.
my only disappointment was that i felt Edward and Tubbs (ultimate classic characters) and Papa Lazarou (my favourite character!) weren't in the film that much at all.
9/10
as i said I'm a fan of the series and the movie isn't perhaps laugh out loud all the way through (though there are hilarious moments galore in the first 30 minutes) but thats OK because where it lacks in hilarity, it makes up for in the plot. And this is where it differs to most comedy series that go into a movie. The Storyline is really good and cleverly done, not only is it a cool idea to have the characters hunt down their writers who have stopped writing about them (and therefore begins the apocalypse of Royston Vasey), its great to involve a completely different scenario which they are apparently writing, set centuries ago where three men (played of course by Pemberton, Gatiss and Shearsmith) are plotting an assassination of the King and Queen. After three of the characters from Royston Vasey have kidnapped Steve Pemberton, they discover this new work on his laptop and step forward Geoff Tipps who writes himself into that world "suddenly a man named Geoff Tipps with a huge cock comes forward and saves the King!"
David Warner is great as the evil Erasmus Pea, who refers to Geoff Tipps by the name in his coat as "George of ASDA" how superb!
what is also clever is the fact that most of the time it is just the three actors in one scene together, regardless of which character is used or if its them as their-selves.
i wasn't sure what i was expecting, i had heard good reviews and as a result i partly suspected a big let-down, thank god i wasn't. the reviews were right, this really is a good movie, i came out very impressed and in fact saw it twice at the cinema (the first time i've ever seen a film twice at the cinema) the first time i saw it was with two friends who are big League of Gentlemen fans. My girlfriend wanted to see it, and i jumped at the chance to see it again.
I really would recommend this. Good film, excellent writing, brilliant script, although this really is for fans of the show and not for someone who's never seen an episode ever.
my only disappointment was that i felt Edward and Tubbs (ultimate classic characters) and Papa Lazarou (my favourite character!) weren't in the film that much at all.
9/10
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