Inbetweeners Movie

Rating: 60%



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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

2011

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

None

Premiss:

Four White teenagers go on holiday together looking for sex.

Themes:

Alienation

Coming-of-age

Communism

Destiny

Emotional repression

Erotophobia

Family

Friendship

Gynophobia

Identity

Loneliness

Loyalty

Materialism

Narcissism

Personal

Political

Political Correctness

Pornography

Role modeling

Sadomasochism

Schizophrenia

Sex

Sexism

Sexual Repression

Social class

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White supremacy

Similar to:

Unknown

Review Format:

DVD

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All the Girls I Fancy are out of My league

Summary: The Grass is Always Greener Somewhere Else.

Mediocre revelation as to the sheer weirdness, relentless orificiality & social incompetence of emotionally-repressed and erotophobic Whites.

The fear of women - and their bodies - is so overwhelming that one wonders just what White sexual role models might actually be. There is no reflection, here, as to why Whites are like this (dysfunctional, inbred families?). Nor is there any admission that other cultures are different - as if there are, in fact, no other cultures (to avoid unflattering comparisons with POC) despite the fact that the bulk of this movie is set abroad; that is, anywhere outside of the British Isles.

Another oddity is the fact that there is no true male-bonding going on here, other than the false kind of supporting the same soccer team or being deeply-afraid of foreigners (ie, the non-British) and the non-White. These lads do not support each other emotionally and actually spend a great deal of time trying to force one another to run away from their true feelings via one-upmanship and give-and-take; while simultaneously imagining they know what others are feeling via White stereotypes.

Yet, there is much humor here, about the true nature of the White British, but not so much that you would want to be (or be accepted by) one. Without the jokes, this movie would be quite unbearable since the central characters are so unbearably banal, uninteresting and directionless - as is the movie, itself. And the non-stop sex-obsession quickly becomes turgid since the writer does not use it to explore character but merely to label it. And why, oh why, do Whites think getting completely drunk is equivalent to having a good time? And the fact they feel the need to go abroad for sex speaks volumes for the sensual-repression they experience at home.

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