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 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.

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 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.

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.