You know what you are going to get with Mrs Brown. Low brow silly comedy.

This is a big budget version of the television show. It has outside location shooting in Dublin rather than it all being based in a television studio. They even include some scripted corpsing.

Of course there has already been a Mrs Brown movie before. Anjelica Huston starred as Agnes Browne and directed the movie back as well back in 1999. It was more whimsical and featured Agnes Brown running her market stall.

The market stall is a plot device in this movie. Some Russians with the help of a crooked Irish politician want to close the market and build a shopping centre. Coincidentally Mrs Brown has received a tax demand running into millions of Euros.

It is all a bit far fetched and lacks the core elements of the television series which made it enjoyable and at times amusing. At one point you have people dressed up as ninjas looking for a tax receipt written in braille but it just feels dragged out.

Brendan O'Carroll has struggled to extend this for a feature film and it does stink of a cash in at a time when the BBC series was getting high ratings.

Agnes Brown becomes a figurehead in a Court battle to prevent corrupt property developers from destroying the street market which she trades from.

Mrs Brown's Boys is a BBC sitcom in which Brendan O'Carroll writes and stars as a sweary middle-aged Dublin woman who has raised 6 kids to adulthood. With their various partners, they provide a host of quirky characters to banter funny - and often filthy - dialogue back and forth with their good-hearted but coarse mother in her house. Recognising that this suits a half hour studio-bound sitcom but won't do for a feature length movie, the story and the locations have both been opened out. As with the TV series, the fact that Agnes is actually a man in drag is only occasionally referenced.

Sadly, it doesn't work. Most of the quirky family members have been more or less sidelined, the story isn't particularly good (and it is also completely unbelievable),it frequently has bucketloads of unconvincing sentiment tipped over it, it is saddled with an interminable chase sequence near the end and, while it has amusing moments, they have more or less all been used in the trailer.

It was a good trailer, albeit over-exposed. I was looking forward to the movie on the basis of the trailer. But while this isn't the disgusting disaster of the Keith Lemmon movie, or the floundering mess of the Harry Hill one, it is still a failure.

Words fail me, I honestly can not find the words to describe how poor this movie is, I mean, where do I start? Poor acting, weak story, not funny. very predictable. There was a time when Mrs Brown's boys was funny, but only once. It has far outstayed it's welcome on the small screen and if this movie is anything to go by the big screen too.

This movie, in my opinion did not contain one thing that I found funny and I think the whole Mrs Brown character is now well past its sell by date.

The story itself is poorly executed and dragged out for far too long. The acting is poor, very poor, and every scene is so predictable. It has obviously got bad guys in the movie and surprise surprise they are portrayed as Russian, how unoriginal and cliché is that?

This movie could have been better with a bit more thought and originality, it is almost as if they have taken a TV sketch and tried to stretch it into a movie and failed miserably. There are too many looks at camera, fine in the show, this doesn't work in a movie. They even keep some out-takes in the movie, Why? It just is not funny. I Think the main problem is that the writers and performers think they are funnier than they actually are.

This is the sort of movie that should have gone straight to DVD. Expect to see it in the bargain bucket in a store near you soon. Very VERY poor movie.