The Inbetweeners: A TV series spin-off, a runaway success?

Since the day my colleague said about laughing her wits out after watching a movie, I could not help but take a shot at the movie. Not knowing much at all about The Inbetweeners and its history, I made myself comfy on my lounge chair to watch. A group of teenagers on a holiday trip filled with lots of booze and sex seems to be a formula that works in recent times. When the movie began, the first thought that ran through my mind was “do we really need yet another American Pie style movie?!”

Anyways I started watching the movie and 96 min later I am sitting in the couch and wondering how different this movie was from any other teenage-booze-fest movie. The truth is – its not different et all!

For anyone who has already seen the TV series, you would be familiar with the moderately normal Simon (Joe Thomas) who still has his crap haircut but has been ditched by Carli (Emily Head) and so won’t shut up about her; the self-aware nerd Will (Simon Bird) is still constantly pointing out how crap everything is; would-be sex pest Jay (James Buckley) still can’t finish a sentence without the words “minge” “gash” or “vage”; and Neil (Blake Harrison) is still copping off with various horny pensioners despite having a girlfriend back home.

The story begins with the four teenagers leaving from home on a holiday to Crete. As it turns out, it’s not the nicest places to be; at least the apartment they stayed in was not nice at all! The string of misfortunes ranged from their disappointment at being tricked to get into an empty bar by a beautiful girl to being stripped naked in public on the streets!

Seeing them trying to hit on girls in a completely empty club by dancing over to them - dancing very badly indeed over to them - might not be the freshest joke around, but it works because it’s the kind of clueless, lame thing teenage boys sometimes do. Not sure you can say that about sticking a rolled up 20 pound note up your arse, mind you. The movie is definitely worth a watch for a few (or more) chuckles and laugh along the way!

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Tim Robey at the Telegraph feels The Inbetweeners Movie will be an enormous hit, a Mamma Mia! for the Hangover demographic.

-Chalked by Premdas Kanaran