There are some films that put on airs and graces, where there are actors who really 'act' (with a capital A), who put drama and intensity into a piece. There are comedies that leave you in no doubt that you should be laughing, especially when a group of characters all scream and shout at a situation at the same times, or when they discover a zoo animal in their accommodation. Luckily The Inbetweeners Movie is not one of these films.
It instead an honest comedy in the long transition from childhood to adulthood, where teenage boys begin to realise that they are not necessarily the axis on which the world turns. They also begin to realise that what they say and do can affect other people, in the same way that the way others act can affect them. It is also looks at how easy it is to hurt the people that we love and more importantly maybe, those that love us.
I love the internal philosophy in this which is there’s no point in getting upset about failing to do things perfectly in the past; you might as well have a laugh. However this is the Inbetweeners and this point of view came about because Neil realised that dog is god spelled backwards, therefore there is no god. Of course this philosophy leads the boys to go on holiday to Crete, to engage in all the pleasures that a Mediterranean resort full of like minded people can offer. There are slight echoes of Carry On Abroad on their arrival, but that never featured a dead dog.
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