The Inbetweeners

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Year:	2011
Country of origin:	UK
Director:	Ben Palmer
Genre:	Gross out teen humour
Starring:	Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1716772/
Tagline:	No tagline
Favourite line:	"We haven't come half way round the world to look at some fucking Greek ruins."

Big screen outing for the smash hit comedy from the UK's Channel 4.

The plot:
Will, Jay, Simon and Neil are finished with school. With a rousingly hate-filled farewell message from Greg Davies' Mr. Gilbert, the foursome contemplate joining the depressing, responsibility laden world of adulthood but, with Simon lovesick for Carli, the gang decide to head off to Crete for one last hurrah: sex, booze, flange, gash, klunge and flaps all available on tap.
Inevitably, all does not go quite to plan.
Arriving at their hotel, the building is more reminiscent of a dilapidated prison than a luxury apartment complex.
Heading into town, they are tricked into going into an awful nightclub and, worse news for Simon, it seems Carli is in town.
Will the four of them find the 'love' they so desperately crave?
Will Jay be able to stop spouting bullshit long enough to even talk to a woman.
And will Neil be able to resist shitting in that bidet?

Sitcom transitions are fraught with pitfalls: the thirty minute format overstretched by the runtime; the characters being removed from their usual surroundings; the need to appeal to a wider audience.
Though not perfect, The Inbetweeners movie does a pretty decent job of avoiding these problems, save for the runtime, which does flag, particularly in the middle third.
With a guaranteed following that has seen the movie take the number one spot in the UK from the excellent Planet of the Apes reboot, this is one that will divide audiences, for sure, into those that know and love the series and those that don't.
If you've never seen the TV show, this would be a really bad place to start.
With plenty of gross-out humour, more cock and balls being shaken around, quite literally, on screen than is commonplace, and plenty of hideous language, I for one rather enjoyed this.