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Stumbling across this on the BBC is depressing enough but a film? Really? The trailer alone makes me temporarily envy people who are deaf and blind. It seems like the kind of show that would have had 20mil+ viewers in the 70's but surely we can do better now? Quite impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes as well Edited by TheSaint at 17:33:07 03-07-2014 |
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
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TheSaint 20,950 posts
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BigOrkWaaagh 10,554 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI don't like Mrs Brown's Boys, but if people like it and there's a market for it, which there clearly is because there's a movie, then just live and let live. -
The show I can take 30 minutes is enough and it has its moments even if some of the gags came down the mountain with Moses.
A film I would suggest as with all the 70s / 80s comedies made into films is going to be shit.
Even the inbetweeners as a film was disappointing and that was one of the better efforts. -
Last I heard this had flopped like the other Comedy shows turned into films. -
DFawkes 32,791 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYou heard wrong then. It's already turned a really strong profit and a sequel is all but confirmed. -
It probably cost about 30p to make, so it's almost guaranteed to make money somewhere. -
It had a budget of 3.6 million and it made 4.3 on opening day. *sigh* -
I am sad. -
chasejamie 838 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI work in a cinema and this has been packed all week. Fed up of telling shouty moaning parents their young kids can't get in because it's a 15 certificate. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou should tell them they can't go in because it would be child abuse. -
VANGUARD-CAT 58 posts
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Registered 9 years agoEvery time I hear of this show I can't help but be reminded of Extras
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Humperfunk 8,634 posts
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Registered 9 years agoVery good shout. -
FartPipe 5,307 posts
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Registered 9 years agoMy eldest likes this, I came home yesterday from work to him watching it on iPlayer, cue canned laughter after the word feck 100 times in five minutes, absolute shite. -
minky-kong 14,787 posts
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Registered 13 years agoToo late to put her up for adoption? -
specialgamer 690 posts
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Registered 10 years agoNice review of the said movie here:
Mark Kermode's Review of Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
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TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMayo is usually pretty diplomatic but 'revolting' seems about right. -
The thing that pisses me off especially about Mrs Brown's Boys is the idea that it's all fun and games because it's not some terribly sophisticated comedy (slapstick can be hilarious OR shit, it depends), or that so what it if it's shit, people like it. Normally I'd agree with that notion, but when it becomes such an oft-repeated phrase about one thing, you start to get prickly. I just don't find it funny.
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monkman76 18,987 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRedSparrows wrote:
Yeah, the notion that if you think it's terrible you must be up yourself.
The thing that pisses me off especially about Mrs Brown's Boys is the idea that it's all fun and games because it's not some terribly sophisticated comedy (slapstick can be hilarious OR shit, it depends), or that so what it if it's shit, people like it. Normally I'd agree with that notion, but when it becomes such an oft-repeated phrase about one thing, you start to get prickly. I just don't find it funny. -
Yup, inverse-snobbery. I don't like it because I don't find it funny. That doesn't mean I find all comedy written by super brainy people funny, nor does it mean I find all comedy aimed at the lowest common denominator unfunny. It depends on so much other stuff.
Safe to say, not gonna go see this. -
You mean you don't agree with this review? http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/mrs-browns-boys-dmovie-dlight-3768928 -
Old-fashioned? Undoubtedly. Crude? Definitely. Funny? Well, we know what the critics with their box sets of Curb Your Enthusiasm will say.
Bingo!
But O’Carroll has tapped into a rich comedy vein that satisfies the viewing millions fed up with satire and irony, and who simply want to split their sides at the sight of a man in drag falling over and showing his knickers, or a flamboyant gay man offering to swim the Channel because he thought someone said “canal”.
This - 'satire' and 'irony' are the hallmarks of 'elite' comedy, are they? Bullshit. Comedy is funny whatever intellectual level it aims at: this kind of review are the problem, conjuring divides where there are none, imo.
I thoroughly enjoyed (most of) Man Down and that's about as sophisticated as a turnip.
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Registered 10 years agoYou don't seem to recognise different people have different tastes. This doesn't do what it does very well but there isn't much competition for this type of comedy any more on TV or film.
I'd rather shit like this came out and people saw it than something like Transformers 8. -
Well, lots of people watch it, so it must be ticking boxes. It's not for me, but I'm not a fan of inverse inverse snobbery, which seems to be going on here.
I know plenty of people who probably watch it and find it really funny, but they'd hate the comedy I watch. That doesn't make them wrong, or even misguided, just they laugh at different things than the likes of us intellectuals watching our Miranda box sets. -
RedSparrows wrote:
My issue is that it's repeatedly stated about this show. Normally I wouldn't give two hoots, but the fact that people so often make a point about it that basically says 'dislike this and you're a snob' fucks me off.
The thing that pisses me off especially about Mrs Brown's Boys is the idea that it's all fun and games because it's not some terribly sophisticated comedy (slapstick can be hilarious OR shit, it depends), or that so what it if it's shit, people like it. Normally I'd agree with that notion, but when it becomes such an oft-repeated phrase about one thing, you start to get prickly. I just don't find it funny. -
I'm not the one who thinks there's a necessary divide between fans of this and fans of Curb. That's the Mirror reviewer, and that's the attitude I dislike. Whether I like Mrs Brown's Boys is actually incidental to that point. -
Inverse snobbery and different tastes be damned. There's low-brow and then there's head-brushing-the-discarded-Tesco-value-containers-that-litter-the-floor. People shouldn't watch this show in the same way that grown adults shouldn't read books with wipe-clean covers. -
'involving zany schemes to sneak into the National Records Office while whistling the Pink Panther theme'
A Pink Panther reference in the year of our Lord Two thousand and fourteen, and that's a highlight of the film going by the review
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Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNo 1 at the UK box office. -
Load_2.0 wrote:
But people shouldn't be allowed to watch it, it seems.
No 1 at the UK box office.
Or, watch it but walk out halfway through, vomiting with rage all over a letter to their MP demanding they ban it from the cinemas.
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