REVIEW - THE INBET-WEINERS

The Inbetweeners. A sit-mock-rom-comedy that has seeped through our television screens and into popular culture for nye on 3 years now. It's difficult to evade facebook like pages, to avoid slipping into quote/counter quote conversations, and so hard to stop reminiscing sessions of just how good that Thorpe park episode really was. And so it was no surprise that on August 19th 2011, thousands of youngsters flocked from their suburban nests to pack cinemas full of clunge for one last hurrah.

so fucking rad

Looking around an at-capacity cinema screen, I saw 16 year olds that wanted to be the first to put a quote as their facebook status - but also various 45 year old couples that had come with the intention of taking notes on exactly what their son/daughter got up to on their week in Malia. That's the first thing that strikes you about the Inbetweeners, and always has; the terse, succinct and accurate writing style that Damon Beesley and Iain Morris have nailed since series 1.

Having been on a couple of LAD holidays in my time, I feel fairly well versed in the ongoings and wrongdoings that occur in these beautiful promenades of youth. Bar street is indeed full of young ladies who use all the charm and guile they can summon from within to get you into their establishment, I have witnessed their witchcraft break the soul of stronger men than I. True too, are the numbered morons that unashamedly walk about on a so-called 'pussy patrol'. The nicknames are private jokes that have never, and will never, be funny. The numbers are the brain cell count. The collars are popped. The Inbetweeners movie has it perfect.

Numbered to save asking how many STDs each has.

What I found perplexing whilst walking into the cinema was the amount of people present that seemed to fit the very stereotype that the Inbetweeners mocks. I'm not one to judge a book by its cover, but i've seen plenty of my share of these folk - the kind that go to a club and form a gun with their fingers, thrust it up and down in the air whilst pursing their lips at the nearest "gash". Therefore I found it quite strange that large sections of the audience were laughing at jokes aimed at themselves. Not a criticism, just something I felt was worth pondering.

The film focuses on a topic at the core of every 18 year old: Girls. Our 4 likely lads become enamored with some ladies after they view Neil's dancing in an ironic and hilarious manner. They pair off and respectively struggle to understand the female psyche, seemingly ruining any chance they have with getting any "clunge". The trials and tribulations of teenage love in sun/alcohol drenched Malia are central to the enormous success of the Inbetweeners movie.

Overall the film is exceedingly enjoyable. The fear, for me, was that when shows make feature length episodes, they can sometimes flop like that fish Neil punched in Season 2. However this movie manages to keep viewer's interest with a 2 Euro cocktail of jokes, sarcasm and decent plot lines that wont leave you with your head down the toilet the next morning. Also, If you haven't been on a holiday like it then I would recommend going, you'll find the film infinitely more comedic (and have a rad time).

LADS ON TOUR.