It`s often a dangerous sign when a Brit flick opens with a scene featuring an actor who`s famous for a role in a soap opera . Does anyone remember that gawd awful movie THE WEDDING TACKLE that had Leslie Grantham from EASTENDERS in it ? Boy that was a really rank movie , so when BOB`S WEEKEND opening scene had Bruce Jones ( Les Battersby from CORONATION STREET ) alarm bells started ringing in my head , a situation not helped when moments later another CORONATION STREET regular ( Samia Ghadie ) appeared in a walk on role . It`s also impossible to think of Jones as anyone except Les from CORONATION STREET since being type cast as a regular character from a famous soap does tend to kill off an actors career
Despite this BOB`S WEEKEND works because it`s like watching a slightly grittier version of CORONATION STREET and it`s very easy to recommend this movie to fans of the soap . Bob is almost a clone of Les as eternal failure seems to heap up upon him . There`s a scene with Jones and Brian Glover that could have come from a classic episode of the Manchester soap opera followed by a scene that could have easily featured Janice Battersby and a " taxi driver " , with darkly comic scenes coming by the bucketload
I`m not a fan of soap operas but if you like CORONATION STREET you`ll enjoy this Brit flick .
Despite this BOB`S WEEKEND works because it`s like watching a slightly grittier version of CORONATION STREET and it`s very easy to recommend this movie to fans of the soap . Bob is almost a clone of Les as eternal failure seems to heap up upon him . There`s a scene with Jones and Brian Glover that could have come from a classic episode of the Manchester soap opera followed by a scene that could have easily featured Janice Battersby and a " taxi driver " , with darkly comic scenes coming by the bucketload
I`m not a fan of soap operas but if you like CORONATION STREET you`ll enjoy this Brit flick .