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The Inbetweeners

Four socially troubled 18-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Malia. Four socially troubled 18-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Malia. Four socially troubled 18-year-olds from the south of England go on holiday to Malia.

• Iain Morris
• Damon Beesley
• James Buckley
• Blake Harrison
• 145 User reviews
• 105 Critic reviews
• 44 Metascore
• 2 wins & 4 nominations

• Jay Cartwright

• Neil Sutherland

• Simon Cooper

• Will McKenzie

• Carli D'Amato

• Will's Dad

• Mrs. Cartwright

• Phil Gilbert

• Mark Donovan

• Polly McKenzie

• Pamela Cooper

• Alan Cooper
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• Trivia Anthony Head , who plays Will's dad, is the real-life father of Emily Head , who plays Carli D'Amato.
• Goofs After Jay and Simon argue and attempt to fight, Jay walks away and kicks a nearby metal bench. The bench is empty when he kicks it, but in the next zoomed-out shot a man is seen sitting on the bench.

Mr. Gilbert : This isn't The Dead Poets Society and I am not that bloke on bbc2 keeps getting kids to sing in choirs. I especially don't want to hear how well you are settling down at uni or how much growing up you have done in the past 12 months. At best I am ambivalent towards most of you, but some of you I actively dislike, for no other reason than your poor personal hygiene or your irritating personalities. I hope I have made myself clear on this point and in case any of you think I am joking, I am not. I assure you, once my legal obligation to look after you best interests is removed, I can be one truly nasty fucker. Good luck with the rest of your lives and try not to kill anyone, it reflects very badly on all of us here.

• Alternate versions There is an extended version with roughly 4 minuets of extra footage. This includes alternate narration by Will, Will, Simon and Neil going to the toilets before meeting the girls after the dance, Simon and Will spotting Mr Gilbert at a drinking contest, Simon and Jay fight again after finding out Jay ripped the cruise tickets.
• Connections Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 16 August 2011 (2011)
• Soundtracks Gimmie Love Written by Craig Nicholls Published by Chrysalis Music Ltd. Performed by The Vines Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd.

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• August 17, 2011 (United Kingdom)
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• £3,500,000 (estimated)
• Sep 9, 2012
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• Runtime 1 hour 37 minutes
• Dolby Digital

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The Inbetweeners Movie

By Fionnuala Halligan 2011-08-17T09:45:00+01:00

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Dir. Ben Palmer. UK, 2011. 96mins.

No compromises for Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, co-creators of British cult TV smash The Inbetweeners, as they take their four endearingly useless, sex-obsessed teenagers on a road trip to the big screen. The smut is sky-high, although the clunge count stands at a solo mention.

A sequel seems improbable: but this could be quite the multiplex ejaculation while it lasts.

Without a doubt, Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Thomas), Jay (Buckley) and Neil (Harrison) are every bit as funny – and scatological - as they were in the three-series E4 hit, which sold to 20 international territories. While The Inbetweeners Movie may feel like more of an expensive (£3.5m) Christmas special in search of a plot than a film per se, the fans should be in a forgiving mood throughout some third-act drag. The question remains, however: will it play outside the loyal base? Or is this Kevin and Perry Redux?

Opening in the UK at the tail end of the summer opposite Cowboys & Aliens , The Inbetweeners Movie is pretty much guaranteed to pull in its demographic until school starts up again, giving exhibitors a late-season spike. Outside the UK where it has sold well for IM Global, it’s less of a sure bet, with its scrappily juvenile British humour and turd-gag-focus not particularly reinforced by a bigger arc to grasp onto as the boys fly off to Malia in Greece in search of sun and shagging.

The Inbetweeners ’ filthy ethos is palatable because it’s voiced by loser teenage boys: it is Britain’s delayed riposte to American Pie . With the TV series at an end, they start the film by graduating at last from the Sixth Form at Rudge Park Comprehensive - just in time, as none of the actors are entirely believable as 18-year-olds any more. Part-financed by the death of Jay’s grandfather, they head off to Malia in Greece (out-of-season Mallorca substitutes) in part for hopeless romantic Simon to get over a breakup with longtime love Carly (Head).

Wearing T-shirts advertising themselves as part of a “Pussay Patrol” and weighed down by supplies of Lynx, they arrive at a predictably dilapidated hotel before, “looking like the worlds’s shittest boy band”, they hit the town in slow-mo, encountering such wonders as “Fernando, master of the art of self-fellatio” and meeting up with four startlingly self-tanned girls who seem oddly game to take these losers on.

As the summer road trip plot moves towards it inevitable conclusion, enlivened greatly by some granny-shagging,  projectile vomiting, pooing in the bidet (naturally) and general all-round loser behaviour, it becomes clear that Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are funnier when they’re in no danger of ever losing their virginity. As that prospect is dangled closer, the viewer retreats and The Inbetweeners veer towards – gasp! - coming of age. In that respect, a sequel seems improbable: but this could be quite the multiplex ejaculation while it lasts.

Technically, The Inbetweeners Movie can’t quite shake off its TV roots and plot-wise, this is nothing the Greek tourist board would want to advertise (or Mallorca, for that matter). Acting credits are strong across the main four protagonists, and while the writing is episodic, moving The Inbetweeners from set-up to set-up, it is also much punchier and more sustained than a typical TV-transfer.

Production companies: Film 4, Young Bwark

UKdistribution: Entertainment Film Distributors

International sales: IM Global, [email protected]

Screenplay: Iain Morris, Damon Beesley

Producer: Christopher Young

Executive producers: Iain Morris, Damon Beesley, Caroline Leddy, Shane Allen

Cinematography: Ben Wheeler

Production design: Dick Lunn

Editor: William Webb

Music: Mike Skinner

Main cast: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas, Emily Head, Anthony Head

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The inbetweeners movie.

2011 Directed by Ben Palmer

Out of school. Out of their league.

High school graduation just wouldn’t be complete without an un-chaperoned, uninhibited and unforgettable final holiday. At least that’s what Will, Jay, Simon and Neil think when they book a two-week stay on an exotic Greek island. As their dreams of sun-drenched days and booze-filled nights are left hopelessly unfulfilled, the lads fight their way into the party scene with hilariously humiliating results in this smash hit UK raunchy comedy.

Simon Bird James Buckley Blake Harrison Joe Thomas Emily Head Lydia Rose Bewley Laura Haddock Tamla Kari Jessica Knappett Theo Barklem-Biggs Theo James Anthony Stewart Head Victoria Willing Greg Davies Henry Lloyd-Hughes Belinda Stewart-Wilson Robin Weaver Martin Trenaman Alex MacQueen David Schaal Sophie Colquhoun Carolin Stoltz Etalia Turnbull Lauren O'Rourke Dominic Frisby Lily Lovett Cush Jumbo Bobby Hirston Tracey Temperton Show All… Jimmy Roussounis Matthew Wilson Eloise Joseph Andrew Spiers Catherine Breeze Christopher Miltiadou Malcolm Scates David Mumeni Storme Toolis Fernando Lopez David Avery Katarina Gellin Shane Heron Christie Aaria Emby Emma Louise Cargill Donna Combe James Lee Hunt Tyrone Jeffers Aimee Kelly TJ Nelson Miltos Yerolemou

Director Director

Producers producers.

Tarik Freitekh Rhianna Andrews Christopher Young

Writers Writers

Damon Beesley Iain Morris

Casting Casting

Nadira Seecoomar

Editors Editors

William Webb Charlie Fawcett

Cinematography Cinematography

Ben Wheeler

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Production design production design.

Film4 Productions IM Global Bwark Productions Young Films

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17 aug 2011, 19 aug 2011, 20 aug 2011, 27 oct 2011, 20 nov 2011, 04 jan 2012, 19 jan 2012, 02 feb 2012, releases by country.

• Theatrical MA15+
• Theatrical 16

Netherlands

• Theatrical 12

New Zealand

• Theatrical R16
• Premiere 15
• Theatrical 15
• Theatrical R

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Review by Tylot Lantern ★★★★

The most British movie ever made.

Review by Jack ★★★½ 1

“I stopped believing in god when I realised it was just dog backwards.” 

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these lads are a national treasure.

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As hilarious as ever. Sincere, crass, and totally ridiculous. Great memories.

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“Oh, that's harsh, mate. He can be a knob, but he's not a twat” 

Review by Mads Ej ★★★½ 1

Neil: I stopped believing in god when I realised it was just dog backwards.

“The Inbetweeners” is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen, because of the great writing and the unique, but all weirdly relatable characters. It has been a couple of years since I watched the show for the first time, but I had never seen the movie before now.  It starts out great and feels like a classic episode, just set in Greece, but the writing gets weaker and weaker as it goes on. The characters are still the same as in the show though and it is mainly them we want to see go through new hilariously embarrassing situations. The jokes were good and…

Review by Marcissus ★★★★

telling British tourists to “talk normal” and “stop doing the voice”

this is sort of the natural end of the series but i still love the second one so no dice. probably has already aged terribly and is right in the "you had to be there" folder. this is what a british person looked like in 2011 and by 2012 if you still looked like this they sent you to the falklands

Review by GlennGGM 26

so eh I just started watching this with my parents. definitely the wrong choice

Review by Raúl Dudas-Lyne ★★★★★ 20

I'm upgrading this to a perfect score, my 100th one out of the 1500 or so movies I've seen since joining Letterboxd, and the fact that my 100th would be this, feels so right.

I really am not a fair judge here, because these 4 blokes mean a lot to me. I don't think there's anyone around a certain age in Britain who can convincingly claim to have been wholly unaffected by The Inbetweeners . I'm pretty sure that I spent half my time during my GCSEs looking at that one gif of Will McKenzie saying "Well that , was fucking dreadful" repeated over and over again on Twitter. And obviously, I've seen the series countless time. It's not even that I…

Review by The Introvert ★★ 4

I loved the show but this movie is just a bit tired and the shtick is played out at this point (ironic, as they made a 2nd film). I could shred this movie for a while but I'll just add a few notes.

Couldn't they cast 1 non-British person? The film takes place entirely in Malia (shot in Spain) and everyone in the film is British. Really terrible casting.

I know the idea of the show is that the boys are terrible and unlucky in love, but the errors of this premise are really glaring in a contained film like this. They meet these nice women (also British) and treat them like total shit the entire film and the women…

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The Inbetweeners Movie Review

17 Aug 2011

Inbetweeners Movie, The

Let’s be honest, you can count great UK youth flicks on one hand. So Olly Murs hats off, then, to The Inbetweeners Movie, an upgrade for the E4 teen comedy that matches the gag rate of any film this summer and delivers it with the panache of the Yanks but the scatological feel of the best of Brit comedy. If you have Kevin & Perry Go Large in your head, forget it. This is much closer to Superbad. But with more vag jokes.

Financed by the death of Jay’s grandfather, the boys, “looking like the world’s shittest boy band”, head off to Malia where writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley put them through the lads' holiday from hell, taking in OAP shagging, nicking the sunbathing spot from a disabled girl, projectile vomiting, sleeping in ants' nests, pooing in a bidet and a run-in with a master of self-fellatio. Plot threads from the show are woven throughout - an introduction in Blighty sets everything up, Simon spends much of the movie mooning after Carli who is also on holiday - but this doesn’t need any prior knowledge. It’s just a succession of cringe-worthy set pieces - the boys dance-off to impress some girls is priceless - that escalate in embarrassment as the movie goes on.

Happily, the movie also has cinematic chops. Early doors, the camera starts high in the sky and then swoops down through suburban streets and up to a window where Jay is having a hand-shandy using the internet, diving goggles and slices of honey roast ham - it’s American Pie directed by David Fincher. There are also strategic uses of slow motion - the boys in ‘Pussay Patrol’ T-shirts coming out of a hotel like a shite Reservoir Dogs - that make you laugh without laying it onto thick. It also captures those Greek holiday resorts in all their garish awfulness.

Unlike the Arsenal football squad, The Inbetweeners dramatis personae has always had strength in-depth and the movie is no exception: the four gals - Laura Haddock’s wise owl Alison, Tamla Kari’s lovelorn Lucy, Lydia Rose Bewley’s sparky Jane and Jessica Knappett’s straight arrow Lisa register in Romantic Interest roles, providing punchlines and pathos of their own. Yet supporting player of the match is Theo Barklem-Biggs as Richard, one of the wasted space cadets that haunt any holiday resort constantly muttering “cool beans... cool beans... cool beans”. He drifts in and out of it but makes a lasting impression.

But, at the end of the day, The Inbetweeners has always been about its central friendship and amidst the vomit and the virginity losing, the film delivers a realistic believable portrait of young blokes - look out for a touching discussion as the penny drops that university might spell the end of the friendship. The performances from Bird, Thomas, Buckley and Harrison are pitch-perfect and amplify a sweetness that is only an undercurrent in the show. Lessons are learned - one huge element of the show is laid to rest - and friendships cemented, although never in a mawkish way. As they arrive in back in Blighty, the unthinkable might have happened: they might have come of age.

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Australia-set follow-up to 2011 hit has scored the U.K. box office's biggest-ever opening day for a comedy.

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Initial box-office indications suggest The Inbetweeners 2 will be to 2011’s The Inbetweeners Movie as The Hangover Part II was to The Hangover : an inferior, gross-out-inflected sequel that rakes in even more sterling than its surprise-smash predecessor. Once again, four mismatched pals from suburban London are temporarily transplanted to an exotic foreign clime that provides sunny, perfunctory backdrops for their social and sexual misadventures. Straining very hard to be as sophomorically “offensive” as possible within the confines of an R-equivalent “15” certification, this Australia-set cash-in is tailored near-exclusively for its target under-25 male demographic; a property that began life in 2008 as a small-screen sitcom has seemingly now exhausted its creative juice.

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A record-breaking opening-day haul of £2.75 million ($4.5 million) may nevertheless ensure the survival of a franchise that’s proven surprisingly successful at home and in certain overseas territories; in such markets DVD/VOD prospects look money-spinningly bright. In North America, however, an MTV remake of the original show stalled after a dozen episodes, while The Inbetweeners Movie eked out just $36,000 on a fleeting 10-screen “release.” In Australia, by contrast, takings breasted the $10 million (U.S.) mark, making the choice of new location a financially savvy one.

The Bottom Line Sub-par youth comedy brings the chunder Down Under.

A shame, then, that writers Damon Beesley and Iain Morris  — who scripted both the original TV series and the first movie and take over directing duties from the latter’s Ben Palmer  — should make so little of the continent-nation’s potential. Australian characters with more than a bit part can be counted on a koala’s hand, the emphasis being squarely on our four hapless “inbetweeners” and the compatriots they encounter in Sydney, Gold Coast and Outback. The follies of backpacking, hippy-dippy middle-class 20-somethings make large, soft targets for Beesley and Morris’s humor, amid similarly unimaginative gags revolving around Oz “ocker” stereotypes.

All scriptwriting energies have evidently been poured into the central quartet: brainiac, maladroit narrator Will ( Simon Bird ), slightly neurotic nice-guy Simon ( Joe Thomas ); lanky, easygoing doofus Neil ( Blake Harrison ) and motor-mouthed, self-deluding satyr Jay ( James Buckley ). It’s the latter’s “gap year” staying with a relative in Sydney that delivers the pretext for the flimsy plot, revolving around his lovelorn pursuit of ex-girlfriend Jane ( Lydia Rose Bewley ). Jane and Jay got together at the end of The Inbetweeners Movie , whose last reel saw all four boys implausibly — but happily — set up with girlfriends. There’s no mention here of Will or Neil’s paramours; Simon’s squeeze, Lucy ( Tamla Kari ), intermittently glimpsed via Skype, fares even worse, having been insultingly transformed from a sweet, smitten lass into a caricature of the controlling, harridan shrew.

Underwritten female roles mar both Inbetweeners movies, episodic affairs whose visuals and technical credits never rise above TV-level competence; interludes of split-screen here won’t give Brian De Palma too much to worry about, and despite the deployment of a 2.35:1 frame even the Outback looks underwhelming. It’s here that the chaps — and the picture — grind to a halt during a protracted, insufficiently hilarious finale in which they risk death on a long, long, long drive. Indeed, it’s all downhill after a crudely effective second-half set piece involving a water park, Will and the fecal fruits of Neil’s irritable bowels, our narrator’s humiliation mockingly rendered via shuttery slow-motion and solemn classical music.

Six years down the line, the foursome (most of whom will be in their 30s by the middle of 2015) have long since settled comfortably into their roles, and there’s pleasure to be gleaned from the simple physical and verbal rough-housing of their interactions. Bird, displaying the painfully dweeby appeal of a young Rowan Atkinson , confirms once again that he’s the best bet to go on to bigger, better — and more consistently amusing — things.

Production company: Bwark Cast: Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Emily Berrington, Tamla Kari, Freddie Stroma Directors-screenwriters: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris Producer: Spencer Millman Executive producers: Damon Beesley, Phil Clarke, Tracey Josephs, Caroline Leddy, Mark Lesbirel, Leo Martin, Iain Morris, Tessa Ross Cinematographer: Ben Wheeler Production designer: Richard Bullock Costume designer: Claire Finlay-Thompson Editor: William Webb Music: David Arnold, Michael Price

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When good TV goes bad: how The Inbetweeners grew up and lost its charm

Teenage innocence and anxieties kept the viewers laughing but with the characters reaching adulthood, the humour lagged behind

Like that mate you have from back home who never left town or quite got over their teenage years being the best of their life, The Inbetweeners has not aged well. Ten years on from its original broadcast on E4, the multiple award-winning show about idiotic sixth formers Will, Simon, Neil and Jay feels almost relic-like. It’s not just the boot-cut jeans, wet-look hair gel and Razorlight-featuring soundtrack that give it the feel of a bygone era. The super-charged lad banter that fills it now feels tiresome.

A decade ago, its depictions of underage drinking, thwarted sexual urges, bad house parties, bravado, unrequited love and public embarrassments offered an unusually accurate picture of male teenage life. It succeeded in capturing those raging anxieties: from the fear of an in-school poo, to the wrath of bullies and the humiliation of rejection. It presented a world where A-levels, scoring alcohol and putting your hand down someone else’s trousers – or your own – were primary life goals.

Across its three series, The Inbetweeners operated under the cover of the characters’ age and inexperience. The show got away with such crassness and puerility because it was supposed to be crass and puerile: these were children, fully loaded with ignorance, naivety and stupidity. It laughed at the pathetic wretchedness of their behaviour, poking particular fun at Jay’s lies about his sexual triumphs. It also knew how to craft a genuinely comic scene: Simon’s accidental exposure of his testicle on the runway of a school fashion show is base but undeniably funny. For all the vulgarity and insensitivity, the TV show was always redeemed by the setting and situation. Where The Inbetweeners truly jumped the shark was during its transition to the big screen, where its characters reached adulthood but the humour didn’t.

Taking the tired format of a lads’ holiday, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), sees the foursome decamp to Malia for a sort of millennial update on Kevin & Perry Go Large. Cue: slow-mo drinking scenes, cliched storylines, repetitive dialogue, the bantz meter cranked to full and the gang bumping into their old sixth-form head teacher being a party animal. By the time The Inbetweeners 2 (2014) found the group in Australia, the well was truly dry and any semblance of charm had vanished.

While the TV show had been an exploration of childhood folly with viewers invited to laugh at the boys’ inexperience, The films became a celebration of a culture for which age and ignorance were no longer exempting factors. They embraced the sort of humour that the show initially seemed to mock. School playground behaviour is understandable in a school; if you throw it out into the real world with adults then it’s just bleak. The Inbetweeners was at its funniest when its characters were at their most innocent. A man in an England football shirt out on the piss in terrible bars, saying horrible, objectifying things about women is already too much of a depressing reality to make for a funny comic construct.

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Yearning to watch ' The Inbetweeners Movie ' in the comfort of your own home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Ben Palmer-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to help you out. Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Inbetweeners Movie' right now, here are some specifics about the Film4 Productions, IM Global, Bwark Productions, Young Films comedy flick. Released August 20th, 2011, 'The Inbetweeners Movie' stars Simon Bird , James Buckley , Blake Harrison , Joe Thomas The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 37 min, and received a user score of 62 (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from 858 experienced users. Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "High school graduation just wouldn’t be complete without an un-chaperoned, uninhibited and unforgettable final holiday. At least that’s what Will, Jay, Simon and Neil think when they book a two-week stay on an exotic Greek island. As their dreams of sun-drenched days and booze-filled nights are left hopelessly unfulfilled, the lads fight their way into the party scene with hilariously humiliating results in this smash hit UK raunchy comedy." 'The Inbetweeners Movie' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Tubi TV .

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In this critically acclaimed and award winning duo of films, The Inbetweeners boys Will, Simon, Jay & Neil go on a ‘lads' holiday to Malia for two weeks of sun, sea and, who knows, maybe even some sex. Then the guys travel to Australia to meet up with Jay on his mental gap year where there's singing round the camp fire, disgrace at a water park and a trip into the outback... will they survive?

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