Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie

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.

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.

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.

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

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.