Small, grotty universe of the Inbetweeners lands in Australia for smutty, unfunny sequel
THE Inbetweeners 2: Defenders of all things Inbetweeners will say the derogatory manner in which women are spoken of is all of a bit of a lark. It is not.
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WHEN outright simple math is applied — and this movie is the work of outright simpletons — the feature casting of The Inbetweeners 2 just doesn’t add up.
Four main characters supposed to be aged about 20 are played by blokes who all look as if they’re 30-plus, and carry on as if they’re not yet 10.
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Not that such over-age oversights really matter when it comes to traversing the small, grotty universe of The Inbetweeners.
After all, this is a movie that considers the height of comedy to be a grown man involuntarily soiling himself at an amusement park, and then swiftly distributing the associated waste from the top of a busy water slide.
This sad, smutty, unfunny sequel is all the more tragic because it was filmed right here in Australia.
The plot centres on a quartet of hopelessly horny social outcasts from Britain taking a backpacking holiday ’round our fair nation.
The group’s sex-obsessed shenanigans are pathetic for the most part, save for one disturbing trait the Inbetweeners franchise must be called out on as a whole: the derogatory manner in which women are spoken of (and often depicted) is relentlessly, callously crass.
Sometimes even hateful.
Defenders of all things Inbetweeners will say it’s all of a bit of a lark. It is not.
When a movie like this actively targets immature young males and tells them it’s OK to collectively describe the opposite sex as a single body part, well, you have to worry for the women they’re going to meet later in life.
The Inbetweeners 2
Director: Damon Beesley, Iain Morris
Starring: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas
Verdict: One star. Tales of ordinary lad-ness
Originally published as Small, grotty universe of the Inbetweeners lands in Australia for smutty, unfunny sequel
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