Sexist nonsense actually

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2015)

I have never felt it necessary to write a review before. However I feel compelled to do so having watched this film last night. My wife and I looked on utterly flabbergasted as sexist stereotypes and 'awkward English' clichés spewed forth before our eyes. It's the sort of film I will be actively encouraging everyone I ever meet for the rest of my life to never watch, even for 'a bit of fun' - it really is that bad. Why? Several reasons, not least of which is the despicable misrepresentation of women throughout the film. For some reason all women are in a subservient role, for example secretaries, cleaners, housewives etc. while all men are powerful: writers, creative directors, photographers, Prime Ministers(!) etc. We witness many men lustfully pursuing women and manipulating them to their own end. Lessons to be learned here are for example that being a man and not being able to form a relationship in your own country is not a problem because you can go to another and women will throw themselves at you; a dad advises his son to take up drums because Ringo Starr has a beautiful girlfriend he's a drummer in a band; also, we are to look out for attractive 'femme-fatale' secretaries who will try to lead us astray from our middle- class English family unit. This movie is not a 'bit of fun' - it is a dangerous mix of off-the-shelf, ill-considered, misogynist fantasy which confuses love with sex, all from a disturbingly predatory male- centric viewpoint. When I give it 1 star, I mean it - it is utterly awful. Free-thinkers - avoid this movie and encourage others to follow.