The Inbetweeners on television is a fantastically funny show, so a movie to accompany the series and give the characters a broader adventure to go on was almost inevitable, and it went on to become the most profitable comedy of the year. Basically the four misfit friends, nerd- like Will McKenzie (Simon Bird, also narrating),foul-mouthed Jay Cartwright (James Buckley),slow-witted Neil Sutherland (Blake Harrison) and insecure Simon Cooper (Joe Thomas),along with all the others students at Rudge Park Comprehensive school have passed their A levels. Following depressing events, Jay's granddad dies, Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Carli D'Amato (Emily Head) and Will's Dad (Anthony Head) has married his young mistress, the boys decide to get away from it all, and to do this the boys book a holiday to Malia, Crete. When they arrive the accommodation is awful, and their first night is terrible as they spend it in an empty bar, but they do meet four attractive girls, Jane (Lydia Rose Bewley),Alison (Laura Haddock),Lucy (Tamla Kari) and Lisa (Jessica Knappett). As the holiday goes on the boys all get on with some of their own things rather than hang out with each other, and only occasionally hang out with the girls, Will picks on Alison having a cliché Greek boyfriend, Simon bores Lucy to death constantly talking about Carli who is also on holiday in Malia, Neil getting with much older women has hardly any talks with Lisa, and obnoxious Jay is disappointed to be hanging around with slightly chubby Jane. There comes a point when the boys do have some time together and a big argument ensues between Simon and Jay, who have been friends since primary school, and they break apart for a while, and it seems Will and Neil are going separate places as well. Eventually though they all meet again in the empty bar and make it up to each other, and they know that if they really care for the girls they have met the only place to go is the boat party they have been told about for a while. Alison with Will found her Greek boyfriend Nicos (David Avery) having sex with another girl, so she seeks Will out to ask him if they can be boyfriend-girlfriend to which he agrees and he loses his virginity. Neil has been ignoring Lisa and only having small conversations, but also she has been avoiding the talk of sex assuming he has a girlfriend back home, but he finally admits that they split some time ago and they do get intimate. Jane knows that for some time Jay has been concerned hanging around a larger girl and is afraid to be seen kissing or getting to close, she stands up for herself when required but is not happy with him, but he realises he does have real feelings for her and is not bothered what people think. Simon gets the opportunity to go on the boat for the party and is initially keen to get back together with Carli, but talking to her he realises he no longer has any real feelings for her and has become much closer to Lucy, the other guys knew this as well, so he swims back to be with her, and despite nearly drowning he is rescued and taken ashore where they do kiss. Also starring Greg Davies as Mr. Gilbert, Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Polly MacKenzie, Theo James as James and Alex Macqueen as Kevin Sutherland. The four lead stars all make their characters the most fun and individually are all the most lovable, whether it be during the situations they get themselves in or with each other bickering and poking fun. I admit that the film was maybe not as over the top some of the time as the near cult television show, but being full of foul mouthed language, dirty jokes, some gross stuff and a feel like Kevin & Perry Go Large it is a good fun comedy film. Good!

Or the English edition that is. I have to say though that I wasn't aware of the TV show this is build upon. It seems to have a huge following in the UK. I just watched the movie (a couple of months ago) and kinda liked it. It has clichés and it is predictable of course, but it really is a nice movie (well mostly that is).

If you cannot stand teenagers getting drunk (or trying to),making mistakes, trying to find love or doing other crazy stuff, you might want to stay clear of this. On the other hand, if you can open up to the idea, you will have fun watching it. And it is a party movie. It cannot be taken seriously. Until the next American Pie comes along, this will have to do (and before you say something: the next Pie will have the original ingredients put back in ... no pun intended!)

The film has no real introduction of characters and assumes everyone knows them from the series...which I didn't. Four high school males vacation on the island of Crete to drink, party, meet girls, and have sex. As always in the movies our diverse foursome meet a foursome of women and learn lessons in life.

The film is funny. No doubt about, I had several laughs from it. Much of the humor is sexual in some shape or form. There is a lot of young male testosterone which results in various conflicts. Not being familiar with the series, this was a run of the mill spring break comedy.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity, male nudity.