If you’ve
watched any of the Inbetweeners episodes or seen the last Inbetweeners movie,
you’ll know the characters, how completely inane they are and how incredibly
funny the show is. The Inbetweeners 2
movie tops both the series and the first movie completely, but sadly, there
will be no more movies or episodes of the show as the cast say they are too old
to play the roles now.
The story
picks up during the Easter holidays, the lads Simon and Will are at University
and having a really crap time, Simon’s girlfriend is a complete nut job and is
not only obsessive but extremely destructive, mostly with Simon’s belongings,
which is different to how she came across in the last film, but then given how
Simon treated her in the last film, yeah can see how she might have become a
distrusting girlfriend. Neil is working
in a bank which is interesting mostly from the fact that Neil didn’t look
clever enough to work anywhere, and Jay is in Australia taking a gap year. What’s surprising about Jay is that even
after he sends Neil an email telling him about all the fit birds, the daily sex
with multiple partners, the size of the mansion, the fact he’s ditched his
girlfriend, that the three lads still want to travel half way across the world
to check it out, even though deep down they know it will be another of Jay’s
complete and utterly bogus tales, but let’s face it, it is still a holiday to
Australia…
Once in Australia ,
Simon plans on ditching his girlfriend, Will meets Katie, a school friend he
never expected to meet again and they both hit it off, and Neil…well Neil hits
it off with an older woman, but more about that shortly.
As you can
imagine, Jay’s lifestyle is different to how he portrayed it to Neil. It’s really a 2 man tent in the front garden
of his Uncle’s home. His Uncle is
a…well…a, he’s the Australian version of Jay’s dad. He’s the sort of bloke you’d want to avoid in
lifts, or entering bathrooms after he’d exited, and he’s definitely not the
kind of guy you want to see making lewd tongue actions while you’re Skyping
your girlfriend.
After this
first night, all four lads decide to leave on a backpacking holiday and
experience some of the culture of Australia, a more spiritual journey as far as
Will is concerned, whereas the lads want to head to Byron Bay where Neil plans
to swim with dolphins, Jay wants to go to the holiday resort, Simon never wants
to return to England again and Will meets back up with Katie, after following
her bus in the Peter Andre Mysterious Girl car belonging to Jay.
From the
off you know that things will never go to plan and it does take some time
before things escalate into chaos. Of
course, the laughs are there from the off, it’s a steady pace of laughs and chuckles
and hands clapped over the mouth that such a thing could happen. But apparently these things did really
happen, as the story of the 4 lads are really about the exploits of the two
writers Damon Beesley and Iain Morris when they were teenagers – those poor
boys!
My
favourite scene has to be in the water flumes, I don’t think I stopped laughing
for some time after it, my sides positively ached. The acting is pure class and the timing was
perfect.
Now back to
Neil and why this review goes into Beyond the Hub. When I sat and viewed the Blu-ray I never for
one minute thought I’d see anyone from either Torchwood or Doctor Who. I thought for once I might be able to sit
through an entire film and not say, ‘OMFG, it’s….’, so you can imagine my
surprise when watching mid way through the film, when the backpackers are
sitting around the camp fire, the music is playing, the spliff is being shared
around that one familiar woman made an appearance.
Neil’s
older woman is LUCY COHU!
Lucy’s
character was there with her husband, they were going through a rough patch on
account of someone’s infidelity. She was
rolling her own smokes and dancing around the camp fire while Will sang ‘The
First Time, ever I saw your face’ as if he’d just trapped his crown jewels in the
desk drawer! She wasn’t in the story all
that much, but she was there long enough for me to grin, shake my head, at the
sheer, omg it’s Lucy Cohu…Jack’s
daughter…Torchwood…Broadchurch…. Before feeling the force of several
cushions hurled in my general direction.
If you
haven’t seen the film already, buy it and watch it. It’s out on Blu-ray and it’s absolutely worth
the money.
My
favourite character is Neil, I don’t know what it is about him, perhaps it’s his
pure innocence, his complete lack of knowledge or the fact that he just doesn’t
let anything faze him.
Simon and
Will clearly may have a level of knowledge between them academically but it’s
clear that neither of them should or will have a relationship with the opposite
sex and Jay clearly is a sexual predator who should never have a
relationship.
Yet having
said that, the humour that comes from the four boys as we follow them through
school to Uni, you just can’t help but watch them, like them, laugh at them,
laugh with them. So if you’re stuck for
something to watch of an evening and you have Netflix, go and settle down for a
series or two of The Inbetweeners and see how many people you recognise from
the Whoniverse.
And while
you’re still thinking about that, go check out our Connections Page and read
our ‘Inbetweeners 2+’ article.
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