The Inbetweeners 2 (15)
The Inbetweeners 2 (15)
Dirs: Iain Morris, Damon Beesley
With: Simon Bird, Daisy Ridley
Runtime: 96 minutes
LADS will be lads again as the gang from the Channel 4 comedy surprise no-one by following up their British box office hit of 2012 with another instalment.
Last time, the boys-not- quite-men from the Home Counties were on a bargain bucket holiday in Europe. Carnage followed.
Come 2014, the four amigos, slightly older but definitely none the wiser, decide to head off to Australia, where Jay (James Buckley) has got it made. Or so he says.
For those unfamiliar with it, The Inbetweeners style of comedy can be gut-churningly disgusting, outrageously sexist, horribly offensive, and not a little sick sometimes.
Its saving grace, however, is that underneath it all the pals since childhood are really rather sweet. Aww.
God's Pocket (15)
Dir: John Slattery
With: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks
Runtime: 89 minutes
MAD Men's Roger Sterling makes his directorial debut with a Philadelphia-set blue-collar drama starring his old mucker from the show, Christina "Joan" Hendricks, plus the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Turturro. Adding to the attraction is the story, a bleakly comic tale with a funeral at its heart, which comes from a novel by Pete Dexter, whose work was adapted so assuredly recently for The Paperboy.
The advertising pitch for God's Pocket makes it sound heavenly. The reality is otherwise, alas. An uneven tone and a cast being given too much time and space to do their own thing adds up to an unconvincing piece. It's the kind of picture actors enjoy doing (and directing) but which leaves audiences cold.
Glasgow Film Theatre, August 8-14
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