Pretty funny, but nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (10 January 2005)

Considering that the British tend to have a pretty good sense of humor, I was a tiny bit disappointed with this movie. It was pretty funny, but most of it was in a drawn-out, understated way, which is not a bad thing, but here it wasn't really very clever, either. For me, there were only a few laugh-out-loud moments. The joke factor was no more than so-so.
As usual with these movies, it's the characterization of the main characters that is the interesting part, and in this movie there were some nice elements of that, too, but it was a too obvious second-fiddle aspect, because ultimately everyone but the "hero" and his girl died. I hoped that David would end up with Liz and Shaun with Dianne. Oh well.
6 out of 10.