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Keith Lemon: The Film (2012)
I want to give this a 0...
I love Celebrity Juice and I love Keith Lemon so I actually chose to see this film over Ted. It was pretty much a recycle of every joke and special appearance made on the show but it being scripted made it lose the hilarity- you know none of the reactions or comebacks are natural. (By the way I'm not dumb enough to think Celebrity Juice isn't partially scripted) It just seemed so forced. I didn't laugh once, it was actually painful. I tried so much to like it... I really tried. There wasn't one laugh in the whole film from the entire audience (albeit not completely full but still).
It is the only film ever where I have wanted to walk out repeatedly and the only film I have seen where I wanted to ask for my money back.
(Seriously regretting spending that £9.) Just don't do it. It's not even worth Orange Wednesday.
EDIT I know Keith Lemon is a character, how obnoxious to assume that I did not know. I referred to "Keith Lemon" specifically as it is the Leigh Francis character that I DO LIKE. I DO NOT LIKE his characters in Bo Selecta. (Much like I Like Sacha Boran Cohen as Borat and Ali G but NOT Bruno) Me failing to understand that (which I did not) did not lead me to fail to understand the film. There's really little to understand...
LOL (2012)
Siggh
Disappointing. It's such a shame up and coming and talented actors such as Booth became involved in this project. I hope it doesn't harm any future opportunities.
The plot is a mess. It has some interesting concepts but none of them were developed well enough for them to be relevant to the story. The storyline was all over the place and the first half seemed like a never ending commercial for Apple. If the writers had taken the time to develop the characters instead of relying on their good looks to win us over then this venture would have been more of a success. I didn't care about any of the characters and despised Cyrus' character Lol. (I am not a Miley hater by the way, I tried so hard to like her character in this film. I'm not commenting on her acting ability either, she really wasn't given much to play with here) She was empty, shallow, vapid and spoilt and I couldn't empathize with her in the slightest, she had no depth to her and no personality. The themes were vague. I wish they had spent more time creating decent dialogue instead of relying on wishy washy montages. It just wasn't coherent and to watch was completely frustrating. To say this film is about a mother that discovers her teenager's diary is misleading also as this literally happens in the last 15 minutes and is quickly resolved. There was no real relationship between the two anyway so this seemed like a pointless way of injecting some actual action in to the story as it feels like nothing really happens.
They could have easily just focused on one theme- either the friendship and development of a relationship with one of her best friends (they didn't even seem like best friends to begin with? we just had to rely on "He's been my friend for a really long time" quote) or the relationship between a mother and daughter (they didn't seem to have one either?) or this "reliance on technology" thing that wasn't even that prominent. It was just irritating and annoying to see them text each other all of the time. It was like an excessively long phone commercial. It just seemed like this aspect was added so the film makers could claim this is what their film was about.
The more I write the more frustrated I become. I don't know. I'd just avoid it. A complete mess.