The best comedy about hard-nut footer hooligans around. Shame we're meant to take it seriously!

Rating: 4/10 (16 May 2010)

Rather a ridiculous film, this; Elijah Wood as a Harvard-dropout-turned-East-End-Football hooligan...? I saw the whole of "Green Street" in various fragments during my time working in a local cinema, and was not impressed. There were certain scenes I must have seen more than five times; with even viewing, they acquired an even greater absurdity. There were many mainstream films on at my time at the multiplex cinema I worked on that were simply dull; GS at least avoids that pitfall, but opens up another can of worms by its trying to be a crossover between British football cinema and the stylised Laddite tendencies of Guy Ritchie.
There is a veritable smörgåsbord of mockney hard-man posturing, and ultimately a myth-making glorification of what amounts to petty thuggery. It admittedly captures the way petty hoodlums can almost attain mythic stature amongst their followers in the absurdly built up characters like 'The Major!' and 'Tommy 'Atcher!' - but is endlessly indulgent to these characters and their foot-soldiers.
Ultimately, "Green Street" is very, very silly and certainly an amusing viewing experience as long as you don't go in with a serious mindset; the dialogue is so risible I was frequently in hysterics.