Can WE be accused of not understanding British humour?
(for the record, does a floating turd, two guys getting vomited on and exploding zits count as British humour? They wouldn't be out of place in one of the 'Scary Movie' sequels...)
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sacrilage............. no more bad talk about this british masterpiece lol.
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they are groos out humour but the funniest stuff is the way they get a lot of teenage mannerisms right and the dialogue is funny
shareIn the Harry Enfield Show we laughed at Kevin and Perry for being a pair of stupid, ignorant t*ssers. In the film we're supposed to cheer them on. Nah.
shareIn the Harry Enfield Show we laughed at Kevin and Perry for being a pair of stupid, ignorant t*ssers. In the film we're supposed to cheer them on. Nah.
agreed
Im British and love British comedy programs like Blackadder, Only fools and horses, the thick of it and most of the harry enfield sketch shows however this movie is dire, juvenile and crass, please do not watch this movie and form an opinion that this is British comedy instead check out "Harry Enfield and chums" or his live shows from the 80s to see Enfield at his best, which this load of crap certainly isn't.
shareI'm British and I thought it was absolutely awful. The only part that made me laugh was a street scene where every car is a Ford Focus, but nothing else.
share"please do not watch this movie and form an opinion that this is British comedy"
Monty Python right? well, as Family guy implied, and as I just said, it has one good sketch for every fifty crap ones, "British Humour" at its best isn't all that
How come Father Ted, being one hundred percent Irish, makes it onto every "top ten British sit-coms" list? "British Humour" is so good that you have to steal an Irish sit-com to fill your top ten lists?
This whole "British Humour" term gets on my tits, there's no such thing, either something is funny or it isn't, it's got sweet FA to do with if you happen to born on a Northern European Island called Britain
Only Fools and Horses isn't funny because it's "British Humour" it's funny because it's funny, Blackadder isn't funny because it's "British Humour", it's funny because it's funny, Father Ted isn't funny because it's "Irish humour", it's funny because ITS FUNNY!
Now can we please bury these national humour terms that don't make sense and don't exist
And OP, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, your username is "Bastard" and your sig is "Formerly:(names that include the word Bastard)" Now is that purposefully pointless or is it supposed to be funny? you have no right to be saying floating turds and vomiting is below your level of humour...
shareYou must be one of those americans that considers themselves Irish, seeing as everyone here knows tha father ted, despite having Irish actors and being set in Ireland was a BRITISH production with a british writer and being commisioned by a british channel.
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It's not "British Humour" for gods sake, it's toilet humour, and if done right, toilet humour can be hilarious, and this film is hilarious.
Monty Python, the shining beacon for "british humour" has about one funny sketch among fifty bits of filler.
The floating turd and "excuse me, mr and mrs patterson, can I have a jam sandwich please?" alone was funnier than the entire floating turd that was "The Simpsons Movie" (Spider-pig....now that is embarrassing..Muff and Wankette is pretty funny, the way Rhys Ifans delivers it, makes it hilarious)
And Kevin and Perry being vomited on, and the pimple popping (you shout from the rooftops that your British yet you use the term "zit"?) was not supposed to be funny, it was supposed to be embarrassing/disgusting, not laugh out loud.
and the FINAL point my friends is this, those of us who did love the movie, don't really care that you didn't. it's got sweet FA to do with "British Humour" or "Namibian Humour"
OK i apologies and will retract my statement about people not thinking this is British humor however to use your phrase:
only fools and horses is funny because its funny
Monty python is funny because its funny
Kevin and Perry go large is not funny because its puerile, poorly-written crap which only adolescent 13 year old boys enjoy, case in point you stating that a turd floating in the sea is funnier than the entirety of the Simpsons movie, that statement alone leads me to assume you are just a 13 yr old boy in which case grow up, or are not 13 you just have the mindset of one if this is the case i advice you to again GROW UP. However there's no real point in arguing you can stick to watching this crap, the rest of us will watch programs and movies still regarded as comedy classics while you can watch films such as this or "sex lives of the potato men" whose only purpose is to serve as an embarrassment to the British film industry.
Father Ted, being one hundred percent Irish
The problems with the film is that its sketch show characters stretched out to a film. With the techno-house subplot that ages the film rather badly.
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I am English and I loved this film.
I defend anyone's right to say it is rubbish, and it is true that much of the humor is puerile, disgusting and unsubtle.
But I love it because it reminds me of growing up in the 90s, I actually grew up with Kevin, I was turning into a teenager at the same time as him on the Harry Enfield show.
When the film came out I was 17, and although I never went to Ibiza and did what Kevin did, I recognised the character. Kevin's desperate need to be cool, his pathetic attempts at wooing the ladeairs, his love of music and vitriol spat at his parents for trying to understand him.
And of course that feeling of your coolness evaporating when you see the bigger boys who really are cool, reminding you that you are anything but.
The spot squeezing, the music, the clothes, many 90s kids can laugh at how well observed the characters are and can see elements of themselves.
I love this film because it makes me cringe at us 90s kids and then laugh at the sad caricatures trying to capitalise on the coolness of their idols. It is a walk down memory lane and a reminder that kids want to fit in, stand out, grow up, have fun and ultimately end up puking and wishing their mum would give them a cuddle.
"his pathetic attempts at wooing the ladeairs"
I love that you spelled that the way they both say it :D
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