The Inbetweeners 2
Dir: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris
2014
***
The end of The Inbetweeners first film was beautiful. Everyone lived happily ever after and as much as I love them it was a nice way to see them go out with a bang. Everyone else thought so too and so the film was popular. So popular in fact that the makers just couldn't say no to the vast amounts of money offered to them to make another and so we all have to forget the happily ever after ending and see what happened next. Spoiler alert - it wasn't such a happy ending after all. Okay, so I was a little disappointed but then again it was great to see them back. So it never quite improves on the original, it's very funny still, albeit more of the same but it is what it is. If you like the TV series, you'll love the film. The Toy Story 3 inspired scene was actually rather touching and the horrifying ending needs to be explored further. So I was happy with just the one film but they made another, so now I want a trilogy. Please.

The Inbetweeners Movie
Dir: Ben Palmer
2011
****
I shouldn't like it, on paper is sounds pretty awful but I love the TV series because it isn't as unrealistic as most teen comedies, I can see a lot of me and my mates in the four of them. Our language was crude, we did silly things, we were totally useless with girls etc etc. There is nothing more pathetic than a 16 year old boy, fact. The Inbetweeners capture this brilliantly, it is contemporary but I can still totally relate to them, even though I was in their position 17 years before them. Anyway, the film version is an extra long episode really - that is, three really good episodes back to back. There is a long tradition of British sitcoms making a film version abroad but this is the exception in that they do exactly what most teenagers do after they leave school and get pissed up in Malia/Ibiza/Magaluf etc. They do not get mixed up in a mafia job, a bank robbery or a mistaken identity spy operation. It's very rude, very silly, very funny and very charming in its own little way. One of the funniest scenes of all time, the boys dancing up to the girls in an empty club - I was in hysterics. If you haven't seen the TV series before - you should, but do not attempt watching this film until you have!