I watched this film on xbox after I saw that it was the first film to be distributed straight to xbox live. I'm so glad I only rented it and did not buy. It was truly one of the worst films i have ever seen. I thought that because of this distribution deal the film may have had some value, I'm now guessing that xbox never watched it before they signed the deal.
The story made no sense, the characters are so misplaced and I had no desire to want them to succeed. (A rocker, who's a geek, also a hard nut, oh and he's a lady's man too!!!!!!), The protagonist is boring, weak and pathetic. The scrip is mess and many scenes are totally unnecessary and only in there to fill the masses of gaps in this joke of a film. Some of the jokes and sketches are blatantly stolen from other comedies which is obvious from the start.
It's a massive shame that people from all over the world will see this film as a representation of British comedy. There are many other low budget films far superior to this one that should get international distribution and acknowledgement.
The only positive thing I can say about this film is that the acting was not that bad, one slight saving grace of the film. Very slight.
The trailer for this film showed an interview with a girl who had just watched the film, she said after you watch it you will be quoting lines all night. The only line I can remember, which was just before I was about to turn the film off, was when the police office said to our protagonist 'We can do it next year', referring to resolving the main threat in the film, that's how badly the police want to catch the bad guys 'we can do it next year'. Who ever made this film ask yourself this --> If the police don't care, there is no purpose to the plot, when the main character is only slightly bothered, why should the audience be interested?
If you are unfortunate enough to watch this film and understand what i mean by this, the line will make you realises how bad this film is.
How this got 7 on IMDb amazes me, the only thing I can think of is that everyone that was in the cast or crew gave it a high rating.
One other thing that I noticed which angered me so much about this film is that the sound track is plagiarised. I'm not 100% sure about this but there is a song that's played which sounds almost identical to a Bloc Party song. The film makers paid some muppet to write a song that sounds very similar to the bloc party song, this is a cheap trick, if i were Bloc Party I would be phoning my lawyers. If you can't pay an artist for the rights to use their material maybe use a smaller band or an unsigned artist and give them exposure, don't rip off a popular track to try and create audience familiarity. This kinda put's the icing on the horrible cake for me.
