Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie

You know what you are going to get with Mrs Brown. Low brow silly comedy.

This is a big budget version of the television show. It has outside location shooting in Dublin rather than it all being based in a television studio. They even include some scripted corpsing.

Of course there has already been a Mrs Brown movie before. Anjelica Huston starred as Agnes Browne and directed the movie back as well back in 1999. It was more whimsical and featured Agnes Brown running her market stall.

The market stall is a plot device in this movie. Some Russians with the help of a crooked Irish politician want to close the market and build a shopping centre. Coincidentally Mrs Brown has received a tax demand running into millions of Euros.

It is all a bit far fetched and lacks the core elements of the television series which made it enjoyable and at times amusing. At one point you have people dressed up as ninjas looking for a tax receipt written in braille but it just feels dragged out.

Brendan O'Carroll has struggled to extend this for a feature film and it does stink of a cash in at a time when the BBC series was getting high ratings.

If you are, like me, a great fan of the TV series, I would advise giving this movie a wide berth. Any funny gags are predictable and very few and far between. Some of the plot lines are poor to the point of embarrassment. This has proved, once again, that British comedy rarely transfers well to the big screen. The opening song and dance routine and the closing, vomit inducing, court room speech are just not what Mrs Brown's Boys is about. The scenes involving the blind ninjas are extremely clumsily directed and executed and O'Carroll's caricature of the leader of the ninjas is, to be quite honest, nothing short of crude and offensive. I hope they abandon any attempts to make further movies and try to resurrect the hilarious TV series in its true form before a live audience.

I really looked forward to seeing this. I love the TV show. Put simply though, like so many great television comedies, it just doesn't work in a full length movie. Of course there are funny (or at least mildly amusing) moments, but just not enough of them to carry the rather absurd plot. The solicitor's character and affliction had rich comedic potential, but was wasted in style. Hopefully this disappointing effort will not damage the reputation of what is a great success story. If you get bored like I did, at least the last line gets the biggest laugh of the whole thing (at least it did when I was there). However, that says more about the quality of what has gone before than it does about that moment.

Very poor.

Popular t.v. comedies aren't known to have reputable success. As with this one, sadly, it enormously fails, where laughs are scarce. The script has to thank for that too, where as a movie, we see the material's been restricted, where we're missing a lot "feckin'" words or vulgarities, what have you, where at times, I honestly was in a stupor. I don't know they couldn't just stick to their guns, where the movie, then would of warranted a MA rating, but it would be a lot of better than this disappointing film. What were the highlights, was the start with that brilliantly choreographed number, and song, where all the old lassies got out their prams, where at last we get to see Brown suburbia, which was pretty. The plot of course was so stereotypical of these t.v. sitcoms to film, with good versus bad. Some big guns, are trying to close down the market stalls, and guess who won't sell hers. We really have some big chunks of zero humor where as a Brown's fan, you will see. There were actually times when watching this, I was crying out for the series, to cure my despondence. We learn too a bit of shock truth about Mrs Brown's history, that really put a no spin on the movie.

The Authorities try to shut down Mrs Brown's fruit and veg stall.

Was the movie the point in time where the series started to dip, prior to this the show seemed to be at its peak, I think fans like myself wanted to love this movie, but sadly it just wasn't very good.

Why is it that so many films fail to translate well from the comedy TV series, it reminds me of the awful Nan movie, some genuinely funny moments in the TV series, here though, it just wasn't funny.

The jokes fell flat, it was quite a painful watch, they get away with the jokes over half an hour, but ninety minutes, it was just too much. One or two of the moments where the cast laughed at the mistakes were funny, sadly the actual planned gags were excruciating.

I'd class myself as a real fan of the show, and I will be one of those that watch it regardless, but this movie truly was a clunker.

Had this worked, more movies would surely have followed, sadly this just wasn't any good.

Sadly it was awful.

3/10.