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The Inbetweeners Movie Review

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Brit sitcom "The Inbetweeners," which tracked the travails of four male misfits in their last years at high school, makes a satisfying leap to the bigscreen in summer holiday adventure "The Inbetweeners Movie."

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Brit sitcom “The Inbetweeners ,” which tracked the travails of four male misfits in their last years at high school, makes a satisfying leap to the bigscreen in summer holiday adventure “ The Inbetweeners Movie.” A characteristically British, excessively drunken twist on the “ American Pie ” formula of sexual misadventure, adolescent male friendship and bodily fluids, pic will easily recoup its modest production coin on home turf, with boffo box office (it grossed $4.2 million its first day) preceding even bigger ancillary returns. How it will fare elsewhere is a headscratcher, although at worst it should appeal to fans of warped British comedy.

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As in the TV show, brainy, socially awkward Will (Simon Bird) has been accepted into the gang of relatively well-adjusted Simon (Joe Thomas), sex-obsessed serial liar Jay (James Buckley) and guileless, is-he-really-that-stupid Neil (Blake Harrison). Post-high school, the glue that has kept this unlikely quartet together seems about to come unstuck, but not before they enjoy a testosterone-fueled holiday in the Aegean party town of Malia , Crete.

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Also present in Malia is Carli (Emily Head), the girl who served as Simon’s romantic obsession for all three seasons of the sitcom, and who he’s on holiday to get over (shades of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”). Conveniently, the boys soon meet a quartet of English female vacationers, although obstacles remain: Jay is initially embarrassed at the ample physique of fun-loving Jane (Lydia Rose Bewley), Simon tests the indulgently sweet nature of Lucy (Tamla Kari) with endless ramblings about Carli, and so on. Will, who wittily narrates, is correctly identified as a socially maladroit virgin by out-of-his-league Alison (Laura Haddock), but she warms to his disarming honesty and sly quips. Will is a great asset for scribes and series co-creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, providing a flavor of humor that’s distinctive for the genre.

While the fish-out-of-water tale will be best appreciated by the sitcom’s legion of British fans, auds coming to it fresh may struggle to empathize. Jay seems a generically horny, borderline-misogynistic teen, but to appreciate this surprisingly endearing character, it helps to have witnessed the confidence-sapping ribbing by his father (only briefly glimpsed here) over the series’ 18-episode arc. Neil, aka “the thick one,” likewise has depths that were only slowly revealed on the smallscreen, and may not be readily apparent here.

Laughs come fast in the opening stretch, and a scene in which three of the boys dance their way into the girls’ attention is a skillfully performed highlight. Pacing problems set in with a saggy middle, as the script contrives a major argument between Simon and Jay, splitting the group into two pairs and thus undermining the central dynamic. Handsome, unpleasant antagonist James ( Theo James ), who has caught Carli’s eye, is dropped in and out of the action at random, and the ending is abrupt.

“ The Inbetweeners Movie ” is likely to be judged by history as a nimbler small-to-bigscreen transfer than past Brit-scripted feature-length comedies such as “Kevin and Perry Go Large” and “Ali G Indahouse,” but less so than the anarchic “Borat.” Direction from the show’s second- and third-season helmer Ben Palmer is confident, and all jokes are well-edited for laughs. Some of the best gags involve costumes, with Will choosing among three identical-looking pairs of beige chinos for his first big night out on the town, while at one point he’s forced to wear a T-shirt bearing the embarrassing legend “Mr. I F*** Kids.” You won’t see that in “American Pie.”

• Production: An Entertainment Films release of a Film4 presentation of a Young Bwark production. (International sales: IM Global, Los Angeles.) Produced by Christopher Young. Executive producers, Iain Morris, Damon Beesley, Caroline Leddy, Shane Allen, Leo Martin. Directed by Ben Palmer. Screenplay, Iain Morris, Damon Beesley.
• Crew: Camera (color, HD), Ben Wheeler; editors, William Webb, Charlie Fawcett; music, Mike Skinner; music supervisor, Jeremy Kimberlin; production designer, Dick Lunn; art director, Lucienne Suren; set decorator, Anna Kasabova; costume designer, Rosa Dias; sound (Dolby Digital), Bob Newton; supervising sound editor, Jack Gillies; re-recording mixer, Richard Davey; visual effects supervisor, Andrew Daffy; visual effects, the House of Curves; stunt coordinator, Jordi Casares; line producer, Rosa Romero; associate producers, Mike Morris, David Root, Rhianna Andrews; assistant director, Patrick Conroy; casting, Nadira Seecoomar. Reviewed at Vue, London, Aug. 16, 2011. Running time: 97 MIN.
• With: Will MacKenzie - Simon Bird Jay Cartwright - James Buckley Neil Sutherland - Blake Harrison Simon Cooper - Joe Thomas Carli D'Amato - Emily Head Jane - Lydia Rose Bewley Alison - Laura Haddock Lucy - Tamla Kari Lisa - Jessica Knappett Richard - Theo Barklem-Biggs James - Theo James

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Movie Review: The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)

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“I saw The Inbetweeners Movie last night, it was great.” “I’m sorry, the what?”

Despite this British sitcom’s surprisingly far-reaching fan base (not a single seat of the four hundred in my cinema was left unoccupied) I still find myself having to explain the show to family members, casual acquaintances and my favorite movie-loving cab driver on the way home.

So, a quick recap as the premise is simple: We follow four friends on the fringe of social status — somewhere between the “normal kids” and the “freaks” — as they meander their way through high school and its teenage perils. Picking up during the last day of school, these “inbetweeners” — the nerdy but level-headed narrator Will (Simon Bird), selfish relationship-dependent Simon (Joe Thomas), compulsive liar and big-noter Jay (James Buckley) and loveable dimwit Neil (Blake Harrison) — decide to book a party holiday to Greece to help Simon get over his break-up with Carli (Emily Head), but things get hairy when Simon, who is at the furthest point from being over his ex, spots her on the same trip.

If I had to justify why I liked this film with one sentence, it would be this: At no point does it stray from the formula that made the show so refreshing. The humor is there, as are the scenes of incredible social awkwardness, but this consistency begins with proper characterization. Every fan of the show has a personal favorite, and should be pleased to hear that their move to the big screen has not coerced creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley into thinking they should customize the characters to suit a wider audience. By the end of The Inbetweeners Movie , each of the four is in an inherently better position in their life than they were two hours ago, but how they all get there remains entrenched in typical The Inbetweeners fashion.

What does this mean exactly? It means that the screenplay puts individual character development on the backburner for most of the film, instead preferring to fill every scene with a truckload of jokes ranging from slapstick, the spoken word and a merciless array of cringe-worthy moments; the kind that have become the niche of the series. In any other genre this could be considered a sour point, but comedies are granted exceptions on the basis that they exist primarily to entertain, not to provide a moral, or indeed, much deep thinking at all. Does each character learn something about their life through their experience in Greece? Sure. Should we expect them to let the rest of their life be guided by these same profound moments of clarity? I doubt it.

Anyone even slightly familiar with the series would also be aware of its unrelentingly crude subject matter, which some might interpret as vulgar or even offensive. That’s a personal call, and while it doesn’t concern my comedic sensibilities in the slightest, I must warn the more politically correct among us that this is not a movie for you. Few social taboos are left undisturbed, and when you couple this with the notion that filmmakers can get away with a lot more on the big screen, it is recommended that fence-sitters have a long think about how they feel about rude and crude humor, lest they return home with the unexplained compulsion to take a boiling hot bath and scrub until a little skin comes off.

If I had to make a couple of minor criticisms, I would say that a handful of party clichés are overdone (see: front-on shots of friends walking in slow-motion through a club with big grins on their faces) and that some realism is lost when Simon appears too gullible to be believed (you’ll know it when you see it). However, these moments are few and far between, and fail to detract from making The Inbetweeners Movie the funniest movie I’ve seen in a good few years.

A few years ago, a good friend of mine started calling me 'Hollywood' because of my love and knowledge of all things movies, and the name just stuck. Movies are my life. I love them so much that when people ask me why I even bother with law school, I reply with my life motto, and a quote from one of my favourite directors: 'I didn't go to film school. I went to films.' -Quentin Tarantino.

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December 9, 2011 @ 9:04 pm Stevicus

I thought it funny but! I would have been a bit more critical of some things like the number of phallic sublims peppered throughout the film the most obvious being when the male stripper jumps to his knees and a girls arm lines up with his crotch suggesting an erection. The bully rep was a bit ott for me and wasnt even convincing, casting could have improved the situation but they deffo got that one wrong. I really do like the way they break up those blancmange moments with a sudden syncopated key change that leaves you in a state of “shock n awe” and i totally agree that this is the best comedy you will see for a long time..

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Summary Join Will, Simon, Jay and Neil as they go on mental holiday in Malia in pursuit of booze, fanny, minge, sex and booze. It's one wild week they're sure to never forget if only the can remember what happened in the morning. They're out of school, out of the country and out of their league. (Wrekin Hill Entertainment)

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Written By : Iain Morris, Damon Beesley

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The Inbetweeners Movie will be an enormous hit, a Mamma Mia! for the Hangover demographic.

Dir: Ben Palmer; starring: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison

15 cert, 96 min

If you haven’t made the acquaintance of E4’s filthy and sexually desperate sitcom The Inbetweeners , the big-screen spin-off should probably be approached with caution. Not unlike herpes. It has two different gag ratios — the laughter one, and the urge-to-spew one. Both are high. Often they’re simultaneous. It follows the old let’s-send-them-on-holiday template much loved of TV-to-film transfers, leaving its quartet of horny teens awash in vile blue fishbowl cocktails, and putting cringe-inducing moves on anything in a bikini.

The movie is well-performed, not badly written, and predictably fond of poo. We get the misuse of a bidet, and a long-delayed punchline involving an “emergency” 20 Euro note stashed up a rectum.

More inspiredly, there’s a scene of dancefloor humiliation choreographed with merciless precision, and already reducing multiplexes across the land to doubled-over hysterics. The Inbetweeners Movie will be an enormous hit, a Mamma Mia! for the Hangover demographic. And it works better than you might expect, because the boys’ neediness — for each other, not just the exhausting goal of getting laid — is ever-apparent.

The Inbetweeners Movie: Seven Magazine review, by Mike McCahill

Seven rating: * *

The cinema is dead; all hail synergy, the spin-off and the tie-in. This summer has already owed much to comic books and children’s toys: there now follows the TV derivative.

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley’s E4 series The Inbetweeners savvily transposed American Pie -style teen humiliations on to Middle England, eventually crossing over to become one of Channel 4’s few recent comedy successes. As a reward, The Inbetweeners Movie duly dispatches its leads – dim, dimmer, dimmest and their nerdy narrator pal – to the Mediterranean, in the process upholding those clichés about pasty-faced Englishmen abroad, and about cheap-and-cheerful Britcom cash-ins that insist on sending their characters overseas. Comedically, we’re only just downwind from the Costa Plonka of the Are You Being Served? film.

You can guess the jokes: a little gay panic, many bodily fluids (and solids), and a, let’s say, varyingly gallant approach to the female form.

A certain scruffy sincerity – the vaguest glimmer of wisdom about adolescent confusions and obsessions – elevates the writing above grim memories of Harry Enfield’s Kevin & Perry Go Large , and the likeable cast maintain some well-honed comic rhythms.

Would that the whole did likewise. Under Ben Palmer’s direction, it instead staggers its way between seasons, never quite doing enough to disabuse the casual viewer of the notion they’re watching a feature-length special, not a movie – one whose ideal delivery system isn’t the multiplex, but 4 on Demand.

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Out of school. Out of their league.

High school graduation just wouldn’t be complete without an un-chaperoned, uninhibited and unforgettable final holiday. At least that’s what Will, Jay, Simon and Neil think when they book a two-week stay on an exotic Greek island. As their dreams of sun-drenched days and booze-filled nights are left hopelessly unfulfilled, the lads fight their way into the party scene with hilariously humiliating results in this smash hit UK raunchy comedy.

Simon Bird James Buckley Blake Harrison Joe Thomas Emily Head Lydia Rose Bewley Laura Haddock Tamla Kari Jessica Knappett Theo Barklem-Biggs Theo James Anthony Stewart Head Victoria Willing Greg Davies Henry Lloyd-Hughes Belinda Stewart-Wilson Robin Weaver Martin Trenaman Alex MacQueen David Schaal Sophie Colquhoun Carolin Stoltz Etalia Turnbull Lauren O'Rourke Dominic Frisby Lily Lovett Cush Jumbo Bobby Hirston Tracey Temperton Show All… Jimmy Roussounis Matthew Wilson Eloise Joseph Andrew Spiers Catherine Breeze Christopher Miltiadou Malcolm Scates David Mumeni Storme Toolis Fernando Lopez David Avery Katarina Gellin Shane Heron Christie Aaria Emby Emma Louise Cargill Donna Combe James Lee Hunt Tyrone Jeffers Aimee Kelly TJ Nelson Miltos Yerolemou

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The most British movie ever made.

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Review by Mads Ej ★★★½ 1

Neil: I stopped believing in god when I realised it was just dog backwards.

“The Inbetweeners” is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen, because of the great writing and the unique, but all weirdly relatable characters. It has been a couple of years since I watched the show for the first time, but I had never seen the movie before now.  It starts out great and feels like a classic episode, just set in Greece, but the writing gets weaker and weaker as it goes on. The characters are still the same as in the show though and it is mainly them we want to see go through new hilariously embarrassing situations. The jokes were good and…

Review by GlennGGM 26

so eh I just started watching this with my parents. definitely the wrong choice

Review by Marcissus ★★★★

telling British tourists to “talk normal” and “stop doing the voice”

this is sort of the natural end of the series but i still love the second one so no dice. probably has already aged terribly and is right in the "you had to be there" folder. this is what a british person looked like in 2011 and by 2012 if you still looked like this they sent you to the falklands

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I'm upgrading this to a perfect score, my 100th one out of the 1500 or so movies I've seen since joining Letterboxd, and the fact that my 100th would be this, feels so right.

I really am not a fair judge here, because these 4 blokes mean a lot to me. I don't think there's anyone around a certain age in Britain who can convincingly claim to have been wholly unaffected by The Inbetweeners . I'm pretty sure that I spent half my time during my GCSEs looking at that one gif of Will McKenzie saying "Well that , was fucking dreadful" repeated over and over again on Twitter. And obviously, I've seen the series countless time. It's not even that I…

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You'll need more than just wellies to contend with The Inbetweeners Movie . Along with the mandatory clunge, viewers will find themselves knee deep in deliciously crude humour and hilarious performances that help ensure a successful transition from television set to cinema. In short, it's pretty gashtastic.

The adventures of the four lustful teens on a booze-drenched holiday in Malia contain enough hilarious and inventive gags to fill out the extended length of the tale compared to their previous escapades. As the mantra goes, what happens on tour stays on tour. So it wouldn't be fair to divulge too many details of the shady shenanigans experienced by Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Simon (Joe Thomas) and Neil (Blake Harrison) after Mr Gilbert gives them a jaw-dropping send off from school.

Let's just say that anyone who has emerged from a lads' holiday with any form of recollection can relate to many of the messy antics, which of course entail doomed and drunken pursuits of the opposite sex, abject humiliation, fallings out, dodgy dancefloor manoeuvres and inappropriate domestic defecation. Admittedly, that last example might be one log too far for many survivors of such a trip. But not all...

Amidst all the talk of gash, clunge, rat, punani or whatever unflattering word used to verbally depict females as sexual objects, there is a refreshing feminine undercurrent to chunks of the movie. This is provided by the quartet of well fleshed out lasses (in terms of character, not size... mostly) encountered by the hapless guys in Malia.

Spearheaded by the alluring Laura Haddock as poor Will's wannabe conquest Alison, they are far more than mere plot functions or eye candy, adding a great deal of emotional intrigue and mirth to the story and are surely worthy of their own spinoff at some stage.

The main stars are undoubtedly of the male variety though, with James Buckley's Jay responsible for the bulk of the howling laughter and cringes. Unlike Simon, whose subplot with his beloved Carli seriously grates, Jay delivers moments of surprising poignancy too - showcasing Buckley's versatility and highlighting the production team's wise move to seek a credible 'coming of age' narrative to underpin the madness.

However, inspiration is distinctly lacking with the movie's ending - as it finishes with a little spurt not even worthy of the fluids emitting from the ejaculating penis so lovingly sunburnt into Will's back. Fortunately, along with some rushed and incongruous editing, it doesn't significantly detract from the excellent work beforehand.

Reliant on the likeable cast to deliver the goods, they do just that. One scene, featuring Will in a compromising situation, works wonderfully purely on the basis of a procession of increasingly comical reaction shots of Simon Bird's unease.

There were justifiable fears that The Inbetweeners Movie would turn out to be a clanger, with a feeling that the three series on E4 had milked every embarrassing teenage masturbatory predicament and m**ge-hunting scenario dry. As it turns out, these pratfalls are indeed still, for want of a more appropriate word, wet. A sensation that one of the lads fails to find when grabbing a granny in a club...

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Let’s be honest, you can count great UK youth flicks on one hand. So Olly Murs hats off, then, to The Inbetweeners Movie, an upgrade for the E4 teen comedy that matches the gag rate of any film this summer and delivers it with the panache of the Yanks but the scatological feel of the best of Brit comedy. If you have Kevin & Perry Go Large in your head, forget it. This is much closer to Superbad. But with more vag jokes.

Financed by the death of Jay’s grandfather, the boys, “looking like the world’s shittest boy band”, head off to Malia where writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley put them through the lads' holiday from hell, taking in OAP shagging, nicking the sunbathing spot from a disabled girl, projectile vomiting, sleeping in ants' nests, pooing in a bidet and a run-in with a master of self-fellatio. Plot threads from the show are woven throughout - an introduction in Blighty sets everything up, Simon spends much of the movie mooning after Carli who is also on holiday - but this doesn’t need any prior knowledge. It’s just a succession of cringe-worthy set pieces - the boys dance-off to impress some girls is priceless - that escalate in embarrassment as the movie goes on.

Happily, the movie also has cinematic chops. Early doors, the camera starts high in the sky and then swoops down through suburban streets and up to a window where Jay is having a hand-shandy using the internet, diving goggles and slices of honey roast ham - it’s American Pie directed by David Fincher. There are also strategic uses of slow motion - the boys in ‘Pussay Patrol’ T-shirts coming out of a hotel like a shite Reservoir Dogs - that make you laugh without laying it onto thick. It also captures those Greek holiday resorts in all their garish awfulness.

Unlike the Arsenal football squad, The Inbetweeners dramatis personae has always had strength in-depth and the movie is no exception: the four gals - Laura Haddock’s wise owl Alison, Tamla Kari’s lovelorn Lucy, Lydia Rose Bewley’s sparky Jane and Jessica Knappett’s straight arrow Lisa register in Romantic Interest roles, providing punchlines and pathos of their own. Yet supporting player of the match is Theo Barklem-Biggs as Richard, one of the wasted space cadets that haunt any holiday resort constantly muttering “cool beans... cool beans... cool beans”. He drifts in and out of it but makes a lasting impression.

But, at the end of the day, The Inbetweeners has always been about its central friendship and amidst the vomit and the virginity losing, the film delivers a realistic believable portrait of young blokes - look out for a touching discussion as the penny drops that university might spell the end of the friendship. The performances from Bird, Thomas, Buckley and Harrison are pitch-perfect and amplify a sweetness that is only an undercurrent in the show. Lessons are learned - one huge element of the show is laid to rest - and friendships cemented, although never in a mawkish way. As they arrive in back in Blighty, the unthinkable might have happened: they might have come of age.

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At first glance, they took the easy way out. The Inbetweeners Movie grossed £45m at the UK box office in 2011, taking the four main characters from the TV show – Simon (Joe Thomas), Will (Simon Bird), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Jay (James Buckley) – away on holiday. To Malia, in fact, where they celebrated the end of their studies by stopping in low grade accomodation, and struggling to connect with women. This time? It takes them to a different country. Thus, without wasting time, The Inbetweeners 2 sees the quartet in Australia, in a tent, struggling to connect with women.

But don’t be fooled. There’s always been a bit more smartness under the bonnet of The Inbetweeners at its best, as writers and creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley found different ways to inject pathos and vulnerability amidst all the dirty jokes, smut, and moments of joy in the company of Greg Davies. The statement of intent here, in fact, is to get most of the Australian cliches dealt with in a glorious introduction from Jay (it stops one step shy of bring in Paul Hogan and Harold from Neighbours) , as James Buckley introduces his life in Australia, inviting the other three to come and visit. By ticking these overtly predictable boxes swiftly, the film can instead focus on other things.

It’s in these early scenes too that we see the surprisingly strong migration of Morris and Beesley from writers to writers and directors. They step behind the camera for their directorial debuts here, and open the film with considerable ambition. Skitting on a popular movie franchise in wonderful style – we’re not going to spoil it, or some of the film’s other surprises here – the pair deliver an unexpected, delightful, cinematic and very funny sequence right up front.

To their credit, they then studiously work along the lines of less is more for much of the rest of the movie. Their camera absorbs the Australian landscape, with stillness and little fuss. It means when they then employ some less usual point of view shots they, especially when the action heads to a water park, it really helps bolster the comedy. The water slide sequence in particular is a satisfying Venn diagram that crosses very gross humour, strong photography and very hearty laughs.

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Yet The Inbetweeners has worked so well for so long for two main reasons: writing, and performances. That’s what matters the most here too. There was much reluctance to make a sequel to the first film, not least because the original conceit was that the main characters were once ‘inbetween’ the cooler kids and the nerdy ones. They’re less so now, having shed any semblance of cool a long time ago, but not for the want of trying. If anything, there’s an undercurrent of loneliness and unhappiness to them here, that the film doesn’t shy away from.

Simon, for instance, is stuck in an unhappy relationship he can’t break free from. Neil remains gleefully oblivious to how much of the world he can’t quite fathom. Will remains unsure how to fit into the world (not least surrounded by non-existent university friends), whilst the others fixate on his mother. And then there’s Jay, who turns out to be the most troubled of all.

James Buckley has always injected the character of Jay with a bedrock of surface confidence, and it’s the same here. He talks about bedding the Minogues, about his huge mansion, and about the idyllic life he’s living. Morris and Beesley spend quite a lot of time with Jay though, stripping away the veneer and bothering to explore why he is like he is. In a project where the temptation may have been to reheat the same formula, this is both welcome and successful work. Buckley, it should be said, is quite brilliant, and arguably the standout of an impressive ensemble (which features welcome, if sometimes brief return performances from Inbetweeners alumni).

Still, the main reason most people want to see The Inbetweeners is the humour, and The Inbetweeners 2 delivers no short supply of it. There’s a regular supply of punchy lines, delivered by four lead actors who know their characters inside out. But also, there are some ambitious physical setups that hit far more than they miss. You also get a good mix of hearty guffaws, gleefully offensive humour and penis jokes. And this is, ultimately, why the film delivers so well: if you tap into its humour, it’s very funny, very often.

Once again, noises are being made that this is the last hurrah for The Inbetweeners , and if they were to return again, a more radical shake up may well be needed. But for now? Whilst this new adventure isn’t likely to convert those who haven’t warmed to The Inbetweeners in the past, it’s an upgrade on the last movie, not always a predictable one, and it’s comfortably one of the better comedies of the year.

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Joe Thomas , who played Simon in the cult teen sitcom The Inbetweeners , has said that the lead cast is keen to film a reunion.

Airing from 2008 to 2010, the Bafta -nominated Channel 4 comedy followed a group of four socially awkward sixth-formers as they navigated their way through adolescence.

Speaking in a new episode of the Always Be Comedy podcast, Thomas revealed that the main cast members were on the same page about their desire for a potential reunion.

“All of us feel it would be nice to do," he said, in reference to his co-stars Simon Bird, Blake Harrison and James Buckley, who played Will, Neil and Jay in the series, respectively.

He added that one idea for the reunion could be a group trip to Las Vegas, following their previous lads holiday to Spain and Australia, which happened in the series spin-off movies, released in 2011 and 2014.

“We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it,” explained Thomas.

Thomas said that each actor has had time to come away from the success of the Channel 4 sitcom, and prove their own individuality – but now would be a good time to come back to it.

“We’ve all been able to go away and get various monkeys off our backs, in terms of things that we felt we needed to do other than The Inbetweeners to prove something to ourselves,” he said.

However, he said that there would be pressure to match the success of the original series.

“Everybody’s anxiety would be, ‘Will it be as good?’ That is what we would be going in with,” he said.

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While the show officially ended in 2010, fans were then reunited with the hapless friends for The Inbetweeners Movie and The Inbetweeners 2 .

The co-stars came together for The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited reunion special in January 2019, but some viewers described it as “awkward” at the time.

Buckley later admitted on his podcast, Completed It Mate, that he had “come across as a complete moron” on the show.

Thomas’s comments come as a shock to some fans, since several cast members previously swore off the possibility of another reunion.

In 2022, Buckley said “there’s not enough money in the world” to convince him to return to the series. In a radio interview, he said that while playing the sex-obsessed Jay Cartwright was “the best job in the world”, he had no intentions of returning to a hypothetical revival series.

“I don’t want to go near it anymore, not because I don’t think I would have an amazing time doing it, because I know I would,” he said.

“I love the boys, I love the writers. Doing The Inbetweeners was the best job in the world. All we did was muck around all day long and they filmed us doing it, and, at the end of the day, we might have had an episode... or a film or something.”

However, he said that he wouldn’t want to ruin the legacy of the series by trying to reboot it.

“I’m getting older – it’s looking like it might be the only thing that I do professionally that is universally loved. There’s not enough money in the world for me to spoil that.”

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Crass comedy sequel is vulgar, sex obsessed, and funny.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Inbetweeners 2 is a hugely crass and vulgar British comedy, very much in-line with the tone of the original TV series. This time the four friends -- Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison), and Jay (James Buckley) -- land themselves in Australia where their…

Why Age 17+?

Countless sexual references, which are at times incredibly graphic. There are di

The swearing is constant throughout the movie and overstated in its vulgarity. T

A parent warns their child about the risk of "gang rape." Other references inclu

Characters are seen drinking beer in a bar. In one scene a character is smoking

A character claims to be living in a mansion and running a nightclub, but this i

Any Positive Content?

Friendship is a key theme to the movie. Although played for laughs, much of the

The four boys do talk about their feelings openly, and show vulnerability betwee

All leading characters are White and there is little by way of diversity amongst

Sex, Romance & Nudity

Countless sexual references, which are at times incredibly graphic. There are discussions about acts such as "fingering" and "anal." There is one glimpse of a blurred out penis and later on we see another penis urinating over the face of another. Brief glimpse of someone's breasts. Simulated sex during a dream sequence, which also has a collection of people giving a character oral sex beneath the sheets. There is a scene where a dog is seen licking a character's testicles. While two characters are making out, one allows the other to put their hands down their pants. Some nudity from behind.

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The swearing is constant throughout the movie and overstated in its vulgarity. The word "f--k" is frequent, as are words with sexual connotations such as "pr--k," "p---y," and "twat." Other crude language includes "gash," "wank," "punani," and "bellend." The characters describe sexual acts in graphic ways, such as "up the s--tter" and ejaculating on faces. A character is called a "slut" and a "whore." The term "pikey" is used when describing a traveler. Characters use the word "retard" on more than one occasion, and another says "spazzy," both of which are derogatory terms for people living with mental and physical disabilities. The word "c--t" is used on two occasions. Also homophobic, misogynistic, and xenophobic comments made.

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Violence & Scariness

A parent warns their child about the risk of "gang rape." Other references include a character claiming a friend is self-harming. Character feeds a burger to a dolphin that kills the animal. There is a scene where a character's excrement flies into the face of another, causing the victim to vomit in a swimming pool. After a character is wrongly accused of being a pedophile, a group of parents try to drown them in a swimming pool. They are later shown with bruises to the face. During the closing credits, characters are shown shooting guns on a firing range.

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A character claims to be living in a mansion and running a nightclub, but this is shown to be a lie. Characters travel from the U.K. to Australia for an extended vacation.

Positive Messages

Friendship is a key theme to the movie. Although played for laughs, much of the behavior on display is crude, vulgar, and unpleasant with some misogynistic, homophobic, and xenophobic attitudes shown.

Positive Role Models

The four boys do talk about their feelings openly, and show vulnerability between themselves, learning from each other in the process. However, they often display derogatory behavior toward women while they also come out with comments that body shame and are homophobic. Jay slaps a girl's backside, and they openly stare at, and discuss Will's mother's breasts. There are jokes made about "ladyboys," and overweight people, while Jay is referred to as a "chubby chaser." Neil's dad is called "bent," meant as a homophobic slur. Will is embarrassed of his friends and is willing to disown them in a bid to impress others, but soon realizes they are his pack.

Diverse Representations

All leading characters are White and there is little by way of diversity amongst the supporting cast. Women characters are often objectified and seen solely as people to have sex with. Reference to Asians being clever, which plays up to stereotypes. Jokes are made at the expense of the LGBTQ+ community and there is also some body shaming. There is a scene when cultural appropriation is called out, when a character pokes fun at a White man for having dreadlocks. A xenophobic and misogynistic character is clearly portrayed as being an unpleasant person.

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Parents need to know that The Inbetweeners 2 is a hugely crass and vulgar British comedy, very much in-line with the tone of the original TV series . This time the four friends -- Will ( Simon Bird ), Simon ( Joe Thomas ), Neil ( Blake Harrison ), and Jay ( James Buckley ) -- land themselves in Australia where their sexual libidos show no signs of cooling. Though there are plenty of sexual references and strong language, they are always used in a comic context, with the jokes always on the characters. The way they perceive all women to be objects of sexual desire is something that film is aware of, and ridicules them for. There are some positives themes, such as the strength in friendship and being yourself. But there are scenes that feature body shaming, stereotypes, and xenophobic attitudes. The sexual references are crude and incredibly frequent with some scenes of a sexual nature. Breasts, penises and testicles are all on display. Scenes include a character urinating on someone, a character's excrement hitting someone in the face, and a dog licking a character's testicles. There are hundreds of swear words, including two uses of "c--t." Terms such as "retard" and "spazzy" -- both derogatory names for people living with mental and physical disabilities -- can also be heard. In one scene a woman offers a character a marijuana joint and he proceeds to smoke it. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

THE INBETWEENERS 2 takes place across a long summer, as the boys are at university, and hoping to spend some time together during the break. Will ( Simon Bird ), Simon ( Joe Thomas ), and Neil ( Blake Harrison ) decide to surprise Jay ( James Buckley ) in Australia, and so set off to the other side of the world for a vacation. Jay had told them he was staying in a mansion and was running a nightclub. But this is Jay we're talking about, so the three friends should really have known better.

Is It Any Good?

This British comedy sequel is a rare thing in that it's a TV sitcom that's ben turned into a movie and actually worked. The Inbetweeners 2 won't be for everyone, but following on from the first movie , which also found its place amongst fans of the original TV series , the crude humor seamlessly transitions from small to big screen. This time Will, Simon, Neil, and Jay have swapped sunny Spain -- the destination in the first movie -- for a trip to Australia. But despite the change in scenery, the tonality and essence of what made this comedy series so popular, is there for all to see.

When you feel so comfortable in the company of a group of characters, you're happy just to spend a little more time alongside them. This is especially true when such time is so limited. After all, there's only so long these actors can get away with playing young adults still in education. Above anything else, this film is funny, and consistently so. There's more than enough jokes about poo and penises to ensure fans are in their comfort zone, while the foursome's friendships provide a sense of comforting familiarity.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about how The Inbetweeners 2 used sex for laughs. Did you find the crass and crude humor funny? Why or why not? Was it ever disrespectful? Parents, talk to your teens about your own values regarding sex and relationships.

Discuss some of the language and derogatory terms used in the movie, as well as the objectification of women. Do you think this film would be made today? How did it compare to the first movie and the TV series ?

Discuss the group of four friends. Despite some of their unfortunate traits and bad behavior, did you like them? If so, why?

Talk about your own friendships. What is the value in having good friends you can be open with about your feelings?

Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : November 26, 2015
• Cast : Simon Bird , James Buckley , Joe Thomas
• Directors : Damon Beesley , Iain Morris
• Studio : Film4
• Genre : Comedy
• Topics : Friendship , Holidays
• Run time : 96 minutes
• MPAA rating : NR
• Last updated : May 20, 2024

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The inbetweeners' joe thomas said he'd be up for doing it.

The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas has said there have been conversations about how a possible comeback for the iconic comedy could happen.

Appearing on the Always be Comedy with James Gill podcast, Thomas was naturally asked whether there had been any discussions on the possibility that we might ever see more of The Inbetweeners .

When you do something as big as The Inbetweeners, you're pretty much going to be asked about it for the rest of your life.

We've had three series, two movies and a reunion special but it's been five years since the last Inbetweeners thing and 10 years since we last saw the actual characters on screens.

Thomas was quizzed on whether he would 'get the gang back together' if The Inbetweeners creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris said they wanted to bring the show back in some form or another.

When asked 'has that conversation ever happened', the Inbetweeners star said it had 'happened in various forms and all of us feel like it would be nice'.

He spoke about how highly he thought of Simon Bird, James Buckley and Blake Harrison, adding that he would 'always work with them again' and described what a possible Inbetweeners comeback could look like.

Thomas reckoned that it would probably have to be a film and not a series, and wondered how they'd tackle the fact that he was now 40.

It's not like the boys could all meet up back at school, as he floated the possibility of some kind of 'stag do' to Las Vegas, but then said we wouldn't really be seeing Simon, Will, Jay and Neil as they normally were if that was happening.

The idea of the quartet being part of a five-a-side team together so they could stay in touch as adults was also suggested.

"I don’t think they could do another series. You'd have to be a movie. You'd have to have a very, very clever device for doing another series," he said.

"A movie, I think works with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline. But with the film, there are all sorts of options."

In the past some cast members have said they probably wouldn't return to The Inbetweeners , with James Buckley and Simon Bird agreeing that it would be 'sad and creepy' to go back now they're in their 30s and 40s.

It wouldn't be the show we all loved , but Joe Thomas told Always Be Comedy that everyone involved still likes each other and if there was a good enough idea something could happen.

He said: "We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it.

"I feel like we all still really like each other. We’ve all been able to go away and get various monkeys off our backs, in terms of things that we felt we needed to do other than The Inbetweeners to prove something to ourselves.

"Everybody’s anxiety would be, ‘Will it be as good?’. That is what we would be going in with."

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It’s safe to say that The Inbetweeners can be considered a TV show that shaped a generation. The series was applauded for its disgustingly accurate depiction of teenage male etiquette and humour.

Joe Thomas, James Buckley , Simon Bird and Blake Harrison starred as the core cast with a special shout-out to the incredible Greg Davies whose depiction of the Head of Sixth Form Mr Gilbert will go down in history as one of the best characters ever.

It’s been a decade since The Inbetweeners 2 movie came out and with two under their belt, rumours have started to swirl regarding a third film or TV show.

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Will there be The Inbetweeners 3?

Whilst a new The Inbetweeners film has not been confirmed yet, Joe Thomas has spoken out about how the four boys have certainly considered reuniting.

Speaking on the ‘Always Be Comedy’ podcast, he revealed that the idea for another film had been considered in "various forms and all of us feel like it would be nice."

"We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it," Joe revealed on the podcast.

"A movie, I think works with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline. But with the film, there are all sorts of options."

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What will the new The Inbetweeners movie be about?

If and it’s still a massive ‘if’ the gang reunited for a third movie, Joe discussed what the film would potentially be about.

The comedian and television star debated the idea of a stag do or bachelor party for the plot of the film, stating it would be a good tool to support the idea of a reunion, especially somewhere like Vegas.

"It would need to be about blokes, I think,” Joe continued on the podcast. “And there’s something about the adult world and how much more complicated it is than the world of adolescence."

"A film can be a special occasion. A film is about a disruption to normality, whereas the sitcom is about what normality is like."

"A film is a story with an ending. Whereas a sitcom is more like going down the pub with a friend who’s funny, and it’s just open-ended."

When does the new The Inbetweeners movie come out?

Sadly, there’s been no release date yet, there is not even any confirmation that The Inbetweeners 3 film is happening.

Right now, all we have is the original cast showing a bit of interest, but when and if that changes, we’ll update this page.

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The Inbetweeners star reveals idea for third movie as he confirms reunion talks

"A movie, I think, works, with the right idea, and there are ideas that are there."

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Ten years after the second film and the last instalment of The Inbetweeners aired, Joe Thomas has confirmed that a follow-up could be a possibility.

Speaking on the Always Be Comedy podcast , Thomas was asked if he would be up for appearing in a revival of the show, which originally centred on four friends at sixth form college.

Thomas said that meetings have happened regarding a potential revival "in various forms", adding that he would "always work with" the cast again.

He continued: "My main worry about doing it again is that I think I am now too closed. Just because I'm an adult. I was utterly guileless on that show, I just told them everything, all the time.

"I worry that I'm too old and have too many boundaries up, too many barriers up. I hope it would be the same, basically."

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Asked whether a revival would take the form of a film or a series, Thomas said: "I don't think they could do another series. Because you saw them finish school in the series, so you'd have to have a very clever device to do another series.

"A movie, I think, works, with the right idea, and there are ideas that are there. I'd really like to, and I feel like we all still really like each other."

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Thomas also questioned what age the characters would be in the revival, saying they could play younger than their real ages, but not much younger.

Thomas then suggested a follow-up film could centre around a stag do or a trip to Las Vegas, or a series revival could follow the four as they join a five-a-side football team.

"We're all still around, we're all still in each other's lives, we all still like each other," he added.

"And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it. I do genuinely mean it when I say that, above all, everybody's anxiety would be, will it be as good?"

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Thomas's co-star, James Buckley, previously suggested a reunion wouldn't happen and that the cast were, at that time, all "on the same page" regarding that.

He said: "I think if we could have all stayed 19 forever, and if it would still be funny, we would have done it forever. It was the best job in the world."

He continued: "They're my mates and I love being with them. And all we did was make each other laugh the whole time we were doing it.

"But it's sad and pathetic, you know? I think one of the boys, I think Joe Thomas, is 40 this year. It's, no... it's not good, is it?”

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An Inbetweeners reboot would be a disaster

A new inbetweeners film would either be dismissed as 'too woke' or 'too offensive' - no-one would be happy with the end result.

When The Inbetweeners was first broadcast in 2008, Boris Johnson had just become mayor of London and Gordon Brown was prime minister. Adele released her debut album the same year, Wayne Rooney married his childhood sweetheart Colleen, and Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross were sacked from the BBC for prank calling actor Andrew Sachs on the radio. There was no Instagram, and the iPhone was barely a year old. It wasn’t just a different era; it now feels like an entirely different planet.

The Inbetweeners , a coming-of-age comedy about a group of teens trying and mostly failing to drink, shag and generally grow up, was entirely of its time. It was a series in which someone’s haircut could be described as “a bit gay”, disabled people on a rollercoaster could be a punchline and cameras went down teenage girls’ tops. Even then it was regressive and offensive, but at the time satirical comedy was huge – The Office , Brass Eye, The Thick of It had already proved themselves TV titans – and The Inbetweeners was pitched as a send-up of late Noughties teenhood. In its defence, the four lads at its centre did always end up the butt of the joke.

Whether its satire was successful is up for debate, as The Inbetweeners was most beloved by the very audience it was supposed to be taking the piss out of. An entire generation found it not only hilarious, but a sharply accurate reflection of their lives – every group had a Will, a Jay, a Simon and a Neil. We all used fake IDs to buy grim cider for tragic house parties, we all spent our parents’ money on disastrous holidays in Malia/Zante/Magaluf/Ayia Napa. But that was then – almost two decades on, we’ve grown up.

It seems The Inbetweeners gang haven’t got that memo, as a reboot is reportedly on the cards. Actor Joe Thomas , who played the perennially self-conscious Simon, has revealed that conversations about a reunion have “happened in various forms”, adding: “all of us feel it would be nice to do”. Apparently, a film is more likely than a new series, and reports suggest that it might follow the lads on a stag do to Las Vegas – not the most original idea. “Everybody’s anxiety would be, ‘Will it be as good?’,” Thomas added. The answer is obviously no.

We can never have The Inbetweeners back the way it was – nor should we want it. Slurs, sexism and homophobia might have been funny to a Noughties teenage audience who didn’t know any better, but now we’ve all deleted our old tweets and wiped our Facebook statuses, it’s embarrassing to be reminded of our old, offensive sense of humour. Still, without it, The Inbetweeners wouldn’t be The Inbetweeners .

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There isn’t a scenario in which the series will be able to come back with the same offensive sense of humour. No channel, streamer or film distributor worth its salt will put its weight (and money) behind a franchise that will almost certainly cause trouble, so the creators simply won’t go there. The sub-section of fans who haven’t grown up and still think it’s funny to call someone the R-word will be upset with the “wokery” that has “ruined” The Inbetweeners . Worse, the reboot might echo this language within the film – you can just imagine Jay boasting about getting “cancelled for attending the riots”.

On the other hand, fans who have matured don’t want to see a 40-year-old version of Jay and Neil running around strip clubs bragging about “gash” and losing their life savings on the fruit machines. They were supposed to be losers when they were teens – to see them still with the same neuroses and ambitions as grown men will just be depressing. As The Office ’s Rainn Wilson once said: “The concept of the buffoonish, clueless white male who is unwittingly racist, sexist and ableist isn’t funny anymore.” Bringing back The Inbetweeners is a lose-lose situation.

The very things that made The Inbetweeners a hit – puerility, imbecility, even naivety – are the reason it can never – should never – return. The original episodes and films are there on Channel 4 to be enjoyed by those nostalgic for what feels like a much simpler time. But in a modern world where context is king and nothing exists in a vacuum, the humour simply isn’t there. Please, don’t turn our boys into reboot wankers.

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Between the Temples

Nathan Silver ’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from the shofar. If you haven’t heard it before, imagine the sound of someone slumped forward in the driver’s seat, face pressed against the steering wheel, and you’ll be in the ballpark. It’s a perfectly bracing note to open this year’s most anxious comedy, about a cantor in a crisis of faith who has recently lost his wife, his voice, and his will to live.

Antic, endearing, and often achingly funny, the film stars  Jason Schwartzman  as Ben Gottlieb, who hasn’t felt at home in his sleepy upstate New York community since the death of his novelist wife in an accident months earlier—literally, given that he’s moved back in with his overbearing mothers ( Caroline Aaron  and Dolly De Leon), whose well-meaning if clueless efforts to get him back in the dating game haven’t exactly lifted his spirits. (“In Judaism, we don’t have heaven or hell,” Ben cracks with a small smile. “We just have upstate New York.”)

Unable to get the words out when asked to sing at his first Shabbat back at the pulpit, Ben flees the synagogue still wearing his tallit and walks home in the dark, replaying his wife’s dirty voice messages until he abruptly has had enough and lies down in the road. An 18-wheeler rounds the bend but stops just short. “Keep going,” he begs. “Keep going, please!” Humiliating and profound, this punchline isn’t quite introductory—indeed, it’s hard to think of another comedy that starts so strikingly in the moment as this one—but it evokes the dynamic, dizzying swirl of pain and pleasure that, as devised by Silver and co-writer C. Mason Wells, constitutes the film’s comic locus.

Naturally, the driver can’t grant Ben’s request, but he does drop him off at a dive bar, where he throws back mudslides, gets punched out, and at this lowest of lows encounters his grade-school music teacher, Carla Kessler ( Carol Kane ), herself a widow in search of her next chapter. Though his mothers make no secret of their eagerness to set him up with a nice Jewish girl—perhaps Gabby (Madeleine Weinstein), the daughter of their local rabbi ( Robert Smigel )—Ben finds himself spending more time with Carla instead. In hopes of reconnecting with their Jewish roots, Carla has decided she wants to finally have the bat mitzvah denied to her all those years ago by her Russian Communist parents and that she left behind when she married her now-deceased Protestant husband—and she wants Ben to give it to her. He’s caught off guard when Carla suddenly appears at the synagogue and signs herself up for lessons, given how much older she is than his typical students, but she only has to twist his arm so far before Ben gives in.

After all, they’re kindred spirits, in ways immediately obvious and less so; both have lost their spouses, but Ben and Carla are drawn to each other for more reasons than their mourning. Ben remembers “Mrs. O’Connor” as a warm and encouraging teacher, though the cantor’s even more taken with her candor—she doesn’t remember him at all, she says—and garrulous demeanor, not to mention the freedom he senses in her selectiveness with following only the religious customs that suit her. Carla, meanwhile, admires Ben’s sensitivity to faith and that he listens when she speaks to him. Both have been kicked around by life and sense in each other a tendency to keep laughing through the pain—even if, before this point, only miserably and to themselves. Perhaps the unexpected ease of their friendship makes it so undeniable. Bonding over Hebrew lessons, non-kosher burgers, and mushroom tea, these two improbably help each other out.

This is Silver’s ninth feature and, like his previous ones, it revels in capturing the alchemical, off-kilter chaos of oddballs in proximity; what makes it special has as much to do with the strange, spontaneous energies that fill the air between his characters as what it is they’re saying. “Between the Temples” could be broadly described as a behavioral comedy; it’s not a critique of organized religion but an empathetic study of how people constantly organize and reorganize their relationships to religion—and within that, their relationships to themselves and one another, in response to constantly fluctuating cross-currents of need, desire, and circumstance.

To that end, Schwartzman and Kane make for a winning screen duo, their chemistry alternately jagged and tender as Ben and Carla settle into a kind of shared neurosis—not a discovery nor a delusion, but something in between—that neither can quite define or really cares to. Schwartzman, so affecting in last year’s “ Asteroid City ” as another widower stopped by sorrow, plays Ben as a more slack, disorderly sad-sack whose grief has blotted out his sense of self. That’s until Kane, with her zany comic stylings and that unmistakable voice, enters the frame with the irrepressible zest of a rising sun, clearing his clouds away; with her curiosity, ebullience, and raucous humor, Kane is the film’s animating force.

Both actors are elevated by a note-perfect ensemble, including a particularly welcome Smigel (known best for his work in a very different comic register as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) as a rabbi who, focused less on faith than finances, putts golf balls into the shofar, as well as relative newcomer  Madeline Weinstein  as his newly single daughter, Gabby. Though she enters the film an hour in, Weinstein shakes up its second half while enabling two of its standout sequences.

An anxious actress who’s returned home after a failed engagement, Gabby struggles as much as Ben to get her head on straight, as becomes apparent during an erotically charged interlude in a Jewish cemetery that’s about as morbidly hilarious as “Between the Temples” gets. In terms of soul-deep discomfort, though, it has nothing on a disastrous Shabbat dinner at which an intricate latticework of emotional dynamics—confessions, grievances, revelations, humiliations—comes undone in such transcendently shambolic fashion that one suddenly sympathizes with how the door to Ben’s basement door keeps shrieking with the agony of thousand damned souls.

“Between the Temples” was shot in gloriously textured 16mm by frequent collaborator  Sean Price Williams , at this point a mainstay of the New York independent film scene whose expressionistic lens is second to none when it comes to capturing the beating heart of chaos. The sense of total immersion in a scene his handheld camera conveys (especially his electrifying focus on faces and facial reactions) modernizes the film’s screwball melodrama. He observes the minutiae of human interaction, often in tight close-ups that move in concert with rapid-fire volleys of incisive dialogue to reach past characters’ deadpan self-defense mechanisms and reveal poignant inner tensions.  John Magary ’s unpredictable editing, with its skewed staccato rhythms, provides the film with a cheerfully chaotic locomotion that does perhaps even more to keep the audience on their toes.

The film’s premise most immediately recalls the bittersweet May-December romance of “ Harold and Maude ,” a comparison that the presence of Schwartzman—a frequent collaborator of  Wes Anderson , whose tragicomic sensibility and affinity for eccentrics, underdogs, and Cat Stevens certainly owe a debt to  Hal Ashby —makes unavoidable. But Silver is working in a more warmly improvisational key, letting in both light and life with such buoyant naturalism that you don’t question the honesty of his characters’ questioning nor the humility—and humanity—of their struggle to self-determine. There’s a core sweetness to “Between the Temples” that shines through. Gently but firmly, the film insists upon the miraculous nature of all the meandering paths we end up taking: in search of our lives, without a clue where we’re going, toward those who’ll give us meaning.

“Between the Temples” is in theaters Friday, via Sony Pictures Classics.

Isaac Feldberg

Isaac Feldberg is an entertainment journalist currently based in Chicago, who’s been writing professionally for nine years and hopes to stay at it for a few more.

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• Carol Kane as Carla Kessler
• Dolly de Leon as Judith Gottlieb
• Caroline Aaron as Meira Gottlieb
• Robert Smigel as Rabbi Bruce
• Madeline Weinstein as Gabby / Ruth
• C. Mason Wells
• Nathan Silver

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