Pogey Beach

The only positive to this movie was having Celia Owen in it...and her acting was rigid and flat, but at least she is pleasant to see on the screen. This was a wasted 95 minutes and a loss of time I regret!

The storyline had potential to be funny and a little rambunctious, alas, it was neither. The cheap one liners fell flat and the occasional zinger had little zing at all.

I would not suggest wasting your 95 minutes, I already did it for you so you wouldn't have to!

Having lived in Sydney, Glace Bay Nova Scotia for a while and spending a few summers there, I know what hanging at the beach and drinking beer is all about.

Glace Bay/ Sydney is much like Prine Edward Island - full of unemployed people or on welfare - going to the beach, driving their cars up and down the empty roads and just getting frunk at people's homes.

This movie holds true to plenty of that in small towns across Canada.

What I didn't like about this film was all the unneeded swearing. There was just too much....far too much.

It needed less swearing and more story.

What I loved about this movie was the red Ford Bricklin...boy, that's a sweet ride...always wanted one.

Anyway, no award winning movie here - but for a low budget film - and a film that's not about some red haired little girl picking apples and feeding horses and living on a farm in PEI, this movie is good enough.

It's not great - but it's far better than so many huge budget movies with overblown effects.

The actors were good enough for their roles - and since a brewery financed this movie, you will probably see more than enough labels of a certain type of beer.

Far too much swearing though...far more than needed.

All the people with gushing reviews have only reviewed this and nothing else.

That should make you suspicious.

Some kind of vanity project reviewed by those who took part.

I gave this film 10/10 because that's as high as the site will allow, but really, it deserves at least an 11. For the uninitiated, it plays like a comedy. As such, it really shines. It's up there with the likes of the great Monty Python films of days gone by, or more modern masterpieces like Talladega Nights. But for those of us who live in the area see it for what it really is; a hard hitting dramatic piece that tells a story so true to life, you'll swear you got sucked into Schindler's List.

If you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, this is it. If this isn't your pick for the one movie you could bring with you to a deserted island, then you're just flat out wrong.

Watch it right now, then watch it again. You won't regret it.

A movie about life in the Maritimes, I laughed the whole way through.