Brothers

The storyline was virtually non existent and what storyline there was appeared to provid enough of an excuse for a production team and actors to spend a few weeks in a very desirable location.

The acting was nothing special and if one hadn't known better the overall impression was that the entire performance was the first shot at script writing and film making by a group of first year media students at a college of further education.

Everyone I know who has seen the film has reacted similarly. It can be described in two words 'absolutely awful'! Who, one wonders financed this venture?

The previous poster is one, or both, of the Dunkerton brothers, and I claim my £5.

Unless they spent that £5 making this absolutely atrocious "film". I have never watched something I found so insulting, from the utterly derivative 'Song 2' by Blur starting as some moron walks away from his crappy little house to go on holiday with his crappy little friends.

I even found the hairstyles sported by each character irritating. That is how bad this film is. The soul searching of the film's "characters" is in vain - they have no souls to speak of.

The Dunkertons probably still argue that this is a great piece of film-making and have plans to partake in future projects. They should never be allowed near a camera again. On pain of death.

we also bought this film because of the "more topless sun-lovers than a page 3 conference" and the Gary Lineker lookalike on the back cover of the case. the film cost us a mere £2 from the pre-owned 'bin' at blockbuster (i now know why its called a bin)and we returned it for our £2. the film is just awful. heres what happens. some guys go on holiday, they get drunk, one meets a girl, one gets arrested, one discovers he's gay, they go home. seriously after reading that you might as well have watched the film. there is no firm story line and the characters are all crap.

anybody who is considering to set aside a night to watch this film, i recommend you have a back-up film ready because this is just unwatchable.

This film definitely has potential as a learning aid for budding film makers, lesson 1 don't make your film like this.

the only thing i liekd about it was the fact that dom from hollyoaks was one of the 600 producers for the film

I got to see this at a preview screening because I used to work with Nick Valentine. I politely stayed to the end, I think I even told him it was good - but in reality, saying it was one of the worst films I have ever seen is being nice. If you haven't seen it - don't bother - it contains a thin plot, clichéd characters and very unfunny gags. I was a fair bit younger when I saw it and I think I might have laughed at a couple of the gags but you end up embarrassed at just how bad it all is. It is immature, schoolboy humour at its worst. You even get bored of yet another pair of breasts by halfway through. I wanted to like it for Nick's sake, I really did but it is awful. I cannot say that enough. Nick clearly enjoyed writing it though and if you've got money to burn why not? I can think of many other things I would rather spend my money on.

Possibly the least imaginative, least coherent film I have ever seen. Clearly Martin Dunkerton and friends used this shoot as nothing more than an excuse for a freebie p*ss-up of their own in the sun.

And if art is mirroring life (a bunch of unlikeable, uninteresting 30-something males on alcohol-fueled holiday on Greek island) then it is all the more daming that there is not a single redeeming moment in the film. I waited patiently for a plot to appear, for just one scene to capture some truth, for just one funny joke. The soundtrack in particular grates, taking all the biggest and most obvious UK charts hits of the time and seeming all the more feeble and deriative for it.

Perhaps the film was pitched as a UK Porky's and certainly there are a fair few bosoms knocking around the screen and lots of attempts at bawdy humour. Yet the film is so feeble that it falls flacidly short of providing even a meagre portion of titillation. Ironically, American Pie was on TV shortly before this: a film which succeeds in many of the things Brothers fails so abjectly in.

Paul Reynolds, of Press Gang fame is the only recongisable face but playing the least appealing character. Brothers is not on his IMDb filmography for which he can only be grateful. He has - Martin Dunkerton take note - acted in at least two capable UK Films: Croupier and Let Him Have It.

Sorry to harp on but I am just incensed when there are so many talented people with fresh ideas in the UK and yet so few decent films getting made that anyone wasted the opportunity on a dullard like Dunkerton.