First off, this is a 4/10, maybe a 5/10 film at best. I'm giving it a 2 to start to normalise the rating and to offset the traditional soft reviews from Irish critics.
If you want any semblance of realism in a film look elsewhere. This is a collection of sketches strung together in the 'paint-by-numbers-road-movie' formula. There's nothing new here at all. If anything it's a little muddled.
The acting wasn't the worst but there's nobody in the film going to be threatening the Oscars anytime soon. As I said, the script was fairly formulaic and hackneyed, as if the writer just followed a 'How-to' manual and did the bare minimum to flesh out a story. Unfortunately that story is following two clowns doing unbelievable (in the proper meaning of the word) things, and this is fine if it's just a straight up cheap spoof movie, but we're asked to care about the characters near the end, supposedly excusing their behaviour because 'they had a bad upbringing'. Nope. I couldn't give a monkey's about the characters, they're overblown caricatures. One out-of-place scene of domestic violence is not enough to justify anything. Leave it out and concentrate on the comedy, thin as it is. There are some vaguely funny jokes in there but they are thoroughly diluted with the hackneyed toilet humour.
I've seen this being compared to Adam & Paul by some lazy bloggers and journalists. It's light years away from that film in tone, story, acting, cinematography, everything really.
All in all, it's not the worst film. You'll get a couple of laughs and then forget about it fairly quickly after. On the scale of Irish comedy films going from Adam & Paul or Garage (great) to The Guard or Calvary (awful rubbish) this is somewhere near the lower end of the spectrum.
If you want any semblance of realism in a film look elsewhere. This is a collection of sketches strung together in the 'paint-by-numbers-road-movie' formula. There's nothing new here at all. If anything it's a little muddled.
The acting wasn't the worst but there's nobody in the film going to be threatening the Oscars anytime soon. As I said, the script was fairly formulaic and hackneyed, as if the writer just followed a 'How-to' manual and did the bare minimum to flesh out a story. Unfortunately that story is following two clowns doing unbelievable (in the proper meaning of the word) things, and this is fine if it's just a straight up cheap spoof movie, but we're asked to care about the characters near the end, supposedly excusing their behaviour because 'they had a bad upbringing'. Nope. I couldn't give a monkey's about the characters, they're overblown caricatures. One out-of-place scene of domestic violence is not enough to justify anything. Leave it out and concentrate on the comedy, thin as it is. There are some vaguely funny jokes in there but they are thoroughly diluted with the hackneyed toilet humour.
I've seen this being compared to Adam & Paul by some lazy bloggers and journalists. It's light years away from that film in tone, story, acting, cinematography, everything really.
All in all, it's not the worst film. You'll get a couple of laughs and then forget about it fairly quickly after. On the scale of Irish comedy films going from Adam & Paul or Garage (great) to The Guard or Calvary (awful rubbish) this is somewhere near the lower end of the spectrum.