Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie

Review: I know that I'll be the only person saying this, but I didn't really find this movie that funny. I found the jokes quite silly and the storyline wasn't that great. I must admit, it's the only movie that I have seen that keeps a couple of the bloopers in the final cut, which were the funniest scenes, but I failed to get the humour. The courtroom scenes were ridiculous, until the lawyer gets turrets, but apart from that, there wasn't anything that amazing happening. If your fans of the show, you will enjoy this film, but I haven't seen the series before so I wasn't that impressed. Disappointing!

Round-Up: Right from the beginning, when I saw the dancing scenes, I was a bit dubious about this film. The jokes come thick and fast, but you have to be into this type of humour to find it funny. When the Russian gangsters get introduced, it just goes from bad to worse, but judging by the movies takings, I must be the only person that didn't think that this film wasn't that great. On the plus side, it does put some parts of Dublin on the map and I'm sure that Moore Street market will get a lot of tourists. Personally, I was more interested in the outtakes than the movie itself.

Budget: $3.6million Worldwide Gross: $29million

I recommend this movie to people who are into there Irish comedies about Mrs. Brown who is pressured by Russian gangsters to sell her stall so the developers can claim the land. 2/10

I am a massive fan of the TV series and was really excited to hear that a movie was being made. It had some highlights but overall it was major disappointment. Sadly, much of the humour was very unoriginal or very dated (reminded me of Les Dawson) or low brow stereotyping of the Chinese and Russians that was so bad I actually cringed rather than laughed. There is something wrong when the funniest bit was the outtakes shown during the final titles.

I also found the sound track to be a bit over the top.

Guys you are better than this movie, the TV show proves this - maybe the formula simply does not port well to movies.

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 have only seen the second version of the show, this movie is a bit confusing. For some reason they decided to go with things from the first series like Agnes having six kids and owning a vegetable stand.They also say that ninjas are from China and I'm pretty sure they weren't joking.The entire plot is non-sense.There's a scene where she eats breakfast at a diner.No matter which version of the show you go with, Agnes Brown would never go out for breakfast.The only good change is that Grandad has a much bigger part.He has more lines in this movie than he did in the entire series and he's really funny.For some reason they decided to use the fake bloopers in the movie which just doesn't make any sense, but it makes more sense than having Agnes push a pram around.The best part was seeing Brendan O'Carroll do a different character even though that character just sounded like Agnes with a lisp.Changing the subtitles to Russian when the Russians started speaking English was funny but this movie put too much emphasis on the serious stuff.While it's not a complete disappointment, it is more proof that TV shows should not be made into movies.

Anyone familiar with the show will not be surprised with what to expect here. Mrs Brown's curious mixture of shock humor and sentimentality plays as easily as ever. Not hateable in its own pedestrian way and they did manage to sort of make a plot worthy of being feature length but it's hard to imagine the arts being any less rich for its non-existence.

The sequence with the ninjas gives Connor a chance to show off his versatility as an actor but it just feels bizarre.

Recommended strictly for big fans of the series.