Rent The Festival (2018)

Festival is basically Inbetweeners Film part 3 - The Festival review by porky

Entertaining enough as an afternoon comedy but nothing more, I liked it but it isn't worth rushing to see anytime soon.

It comes across as if they intended it too be another Inbetweener's Movie but none of the rest of the cast wanted to do it.so they made it as a stand alone Movie 'Festival' instead .

Basically ALL the usual gags you get in any episode of Inbetweener's and Joe Thomas being exactly the same character only with different friends .and a slightly different girlfriend . but only slightly . if you like Inbetweener's then you will enjoy it .but that is all it really offers .

A terrible, aggressively unfunny film which I switched off after 40 minutes - The Festival review by TB

The Inbetweeners was a cultural phenomenon in the UK. Starting with the TV show, which was so successful that it was given three series and then two movies which broke records for the highest gross for British comedy films in cinemas, this was a concept which whilst it had been done before, at its best felt totally irreverent and fresh.

But, as time went on with the TV series and which was then exacerbated with the films, one thing became painfully clear: The Inbetweeners either worked brilliantly or totally failed. With the final TV series and the 2nd film, it was either the funniest thing ever (Simon trying to lose his virginity in the TV series, Will having a meltdown around a load of spoilt brats who have gone travelling to "see the real world" whilst living in 5 star hotels and off Daddy's trust fund in the film,) or completely unfunny and totally failing (pretty much everything else in the rest of the 2nd film.) For me, the worst thing about comedy films is when they are not only unfunny but aggressively so, with the performances/script getting more and more ridiculous to compensate for this.

And this is everything that this film is and more.

From the opening scenes, it is clear that Joe Thomas, who plays Simon in the Inbetweeners, has been brought in to tap into that fanbase and also to be subjected to many of the same embarrassing things which the characters encountered in that show. But none of it is in any way funny, at all. It just comes off as desperate. In the 40 minutes that I watched it, I saw exactly the same things that I would have expected in the show, but without anything funny to anchor them to. We see Thomas’s character Nick have a sexual accident, get dumped, embarrass himself in front of everyone, get himself into an extremely awkward sexual situation ect ect in the first 40 minutes. I had by then lost all interest in the film and switched it off, as I just didn’t care about it.

It was, to me, just a lazy and cynical cash grab aimed at the extremely vocal & at times crazed Inbetweeners fan base who have never been able to get over that there hasn't been any more content since the second film. And the biggest irony in this whole sorry saga is that after watching this, they will probably feel even more short-changed...

This film isn’t funny, edgy, radical, provocative, interesting or even controversial. It is simply bland, boring & uninspired. Can we please now stop having Inbetweeners inspired films which cast actors from that world and leave well alone. Stop traducing what was for many of us a wonderful and brilliant part of our teenage years.

Very childish, toilet humour, blatant sexism and just not funny! - The Festival review by CS

I've never watched the Inbetweeners, but it saddens me often what passes for so called comedy nowadays! A bunch of ex-graduate twenty somethings go to a music festival, camp in a field, get drunk, take drugs and have a lot of sex, so a  highly original script and storyline, not! There was only one scene which made me laugh out loud, and that was right at the beginning when his mum does something she shouldn't have and realises her error too late! What irritated me about this film is I feel that it sends out some very confusing mixed messages about what is and isn't acceptable behaviour, it's ok to break into and vandalise someones car, it's ok to engage in beastiality, it's ok for women to treat men like dirt and sleep around then attempt to blame the man because he's upset by your behaviour! There seemed to be an awful lot of women walking over men and treating them disrespectfully, accusing the man of being selfish when they really do need to take a good long hard look at themselves first! I find all this Feminazism really rather tiring and dull and incredibly hypocritical, but hey ho, that seems to be the new form, PC'ness killing cinema today!