Synopsis:
Will, Simon, Jay and Neil have finished school and decide the best way to celebrate is to go on a lads holiday to Malia.
The latest in a long line of TV series to make it to the big screen is the Inbetweeners. For the most part these are not successful transitions. However, The Inbetweeners Movie quickly became the UK’s number 1 film in its first week of release, and while that may in part be a reflection on the lack of other box office offerings, it is also a reflection of the massive fan base of the show.
The big appeal of the Inbetweeners TV show is the characters - loveable losers that a lot of people can identify with. Most people will have found themselves in similar, if not the same, situations as Will, Simon, Jay and Neil and everyone will have known kids like them during their school days. The TV show works well as a nugget-sized, situation-based core and dragging a single situation out to feature length inevitably loses some of the shine. This is one of the eternal problems with feature length situation comedies. During the TV series the boys never get lucky and that’s also part of the charm, they always end up on the losing side, so to see the bad guy get his comeuppance and the lads walk away with the spoils is somewhat of a departure.
