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This looked good. I was hoping for a silly, no brainer piece of entertainment. Yeah, i got that, but i got it with a huge smack in the face of thanks for the cash advance.

It is to me a massive self gratification exercise for Jack Black, he just wants to cover those rock songs and double up on any earnings from the original score and from the selling for the film.

There are SO many brilliant and fun adaptations of this story into film and i urge you to see those instead. This slap stick approach is insulting with its simplicity. It did not even hold the entertainment of the younger members of the audience.

I am struggling to write enough to be able to make sure no one wastes there time or money on this feature in either the cinema or public release in due course.

Mr Nice - I read the book and went in knowing the film was not going to be as good as the book. So it was no surprise it was not. But unlike some other adaptations, it was horribly below the quality of the book.

We should have experienced all manor of emotions, but instead I was left feeling all manor of disappointment. I am a fan of Rhys Ifans and also Howard Marks. But even with fond feelings of these people I could not help be feel let down.

READ THE BOOK - Skip the film and read the book. I don't read much, only a few books in my 30+ years but this was one that grabbed me. The film, should have and could have grabbed me, but it knocked me into a stoned submission of comatose.

I nearly walked out, they tried to cram too much in and while many normally complain adaptations supply not enough, or it did not follow the book in true form, for this it was the opposite. They tried too much and in an effort, it was all done too fast. It is hard to keep up. If I had not read the book, I would not have known what was going o, how, where, who or when.

We go from the brilliantly cast Rhys Ifans to the damn right confused and outrageous bad placement of Omid Djalili, a rather weak stereotype.

This could have been a deep flavoured and full bodied red wine. Instead it was a weakened squash that is so diluted it tastes like slightly sugared water with a funny colour. Shot beautifully capturing the different times with the technology of filming from that time. But let down far too much by the speed of story, the empty and incomplete endings to all the strings started but so few meeting at the beginning, middle or end it made me feel angry.

When I first read about this film, I liked what it was saying, I liked the direction and I liked the bigger picture of the dream of ordinary people.

There are some great lines, great moments, great scenes but it does not hold together greatly, in fact it is rather badly held together at all.

To me, it felt piecemeal, it did not come together anywhere near as well as it could have done.

I felt it deserved the low score because it easily had the potential to become a great film and even with some possible cult status later on. However the passion was not there to do it. It feels more like a money spinner with some up and coming names, a great idea and an old veteran who could do and has done a lot better.

I really wanted to enjoy and want more from this film. The fact was, I did want more, but only because it was lacking in so many areas, and not for the great feature it so easily could have been