The ending saved it

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2008)

Let me get this in straight from the off. I don't like this film. I don't like to use the word pretentious too often, it's one of those overused FG words but I think it applies here. It really is nothing more than a bunch of misfits and underachievers who finally, at the end, realise they don't care how the world perceives them. There, one simple sentence which encompasses this 'full of itself' film perfectly.
The whole "funniest laugh out loud comedy of the year" is also way off the mark and had me going into it expecting something different from what I got.
I also didn't like some of the ridiculous situations that happen in this, what I now realise was meant to be a mostly serious piece. One particular scene involving grandad in hospital was completely out of context and inexplicably ridiculous.
All that said, I actually liked some of the characters, in particular the young boy and the grandad. The scene between them in the back of the Campervan raised a smile and the ending even raised a titter.
So onto the ending.....I guess after the hour and a half of relative uneventfulness that went before, at least the main issue of the film, as explained in that simple sentence earlier, was brought to the fore in entertaining fashion and at least the film didn't peter out which is what looked like was going to happen.