The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

Before delving into my analysis of this movie, please note that I have only seen the movie, I assumed it was only a movie until a friend revealed to me that the movie is, in fact, based of a TV show, which explains the lack of time given to certain characters to watch them develop at the start. It is however a movie that has made me interested in watching the show.

In the beginning we are introduced to these four characters: Will, Jay, Neil and Simon in their everyday lives as they come close to graduating high school. All very diverse characters who you can't help but wonder why they put up with each other, then again these four seem to be the social outcasts of their school, they certainly are when they go on after school vacation to Crete.

On their first night they meet four attractive young women: Alison, Lucy, Lisa and Jane, who are also very diverse. They are all set up with one of the 'inbetweeners' and the story develops. My favorite being the relationship between Will and Alison who form a potential friendship that keeps at bay due to the fact that Alison has a local sweet heart who Will sneakily accuses him of being unfaithful without so much as a name. When Alison finds out that Wills hunch was correct, she suggests that a relationship be formed between them.

The other relationship I enjoy to think about is the one that forms between Jay and Jane. Jay, from the start and possibly over the series has always gone for the stereotypical 'Hot Chick' and constantly gives Jane a hard time for having a larger body structure. Jay then blows off a chance to go skinny dipping with her because some nearby A-Holes were mocking Janes plump form, and he felt bothered that he was with her. Later in the film he stops being shallow and openly requests to 'snog' with her out in the open for everyone to see, not the type of thing I'd suggest after an apology, but to my surprise it worked better than he had hoped.

While I won't go into detail about Neil and Simon's relationship with Lisa and Lucy I can tell you that they characterise relationship morals and how naive someone can get when they are chasing someone they 'Love'.

From male nudity and strange drinking devices to corny pickup lines and even cornier dancing, this movie is a great watch for anyone who can take a bit of poor language and a lot of sexual references. Definitely one I would want to own, and one I would probably watch a few times.