In the third episode of MTV’s remake of the hit UK comedy The Inbetweeners, Simon, Will, Jay and Neil endeavour to go both bowling and clubbing, with predictably disastrous results.
As with the previous two episodes, this third effort borrows liberally from a couple of the UK shows, without managing to hit the comedic highs that made the original Inbetweeners such a British phenomenon.
Proceedings kick off with the boys endeavouring to get hammered in a bowling alley, their twisted logic dictating that drinking on a school night will raise their social status.
Inevitably they fail to get served at the bar, and so have to befriend a strange loner with blue balls to aid their quest. But rather than reaching any kind of comedy crescendo, this early sequence goes precisely nowhere, failing to raise much more than a generous chuckle along the way.
But much like last week’s episode, the bulk of the plot revolves around Simon’s efforts to stalk Carly, this time by following her and her friends to a nightclub called Spectrum.
Watching the foul-mouthed foursome trying to get lucky and laid while way out of their depth should be funny, but ends up being a somewhat painful viewing experience.
Worst culprit is Will, who fails to be both endearing and funny in equal measure, no-more-so then when he hits the dance floor, his lack of rhythm utterly mirthless.
Jay raises a smile in his guy-liner but seems to be trying too hard in this instalment, while Neil cutting his penis should be funnier than it is. As for the interaction between Simon and Carly, what began as funny an honest now consistently fails to ring true.
Part of the problem is the fact that the show lacks the energy – both in terms of performance and direction – of its UK counterpart. And so where in the original the episode brilliantly built to a hilarious finale involving Simon’s car, a homeless man and a pair of sh*t-stained trainers, here those same jokes fall flat, the episode concluding with a whimper rather than a bang.
The creators have previously talked about following the formula of the American Office, borrowing UK plots to get the ball rolling before eventually crafting plots and jokes of their own. On this evidence, the sooner they do that the better, as the longers MTV’s Inbetweeners goes on, the paler an imitation it becomes.
And for the record, Bus Wankers is funny. Bus Turds is not.
Source : feeds[dot]ign[dot]com
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar