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Sex Lives Of The Potato Men [2004]


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A laugh a minute - but very rude.
Review date: 2008-04-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film was canned by Mark Komode on Radio Five Live when it was released as possibly the worst film of the year. He says that about Pirates of the Carribean and low and behold a common theme is that Mackenzie Crook is in both!!!. I generally heed what Professor Komode says and I had no desire to see this film, until I came across it whilst channel hopping Sky Movies. What a delight and great late night entertainment however!!

I never really liked the Carry on type of films and found the innuendo pointless. This film has no innuendo it leaves nothing to the imagination and it is really a lads film. Saying that my wife laughed as much as I did.

The film follows the pranks and day to day activities of a number of guys who sell potatos. The two main chartacters, Jonny Vegas, who makes me laugh just looking at him, and Mckenzie Crook are a pair of guys who have very different luck in regards to their sexula encounters, one who can't get any and the other who has no morals or standards.

Maybe I like the film because in my youth I knew guys like this, but regardless the film leaves nothing to the imagination.

There are a number of real classic scenes including early on the woman with chronic dandruff serving chips with a coating of the same and`numerous sex`scenes which can't be described here.

Ok its not a great cllassic, but I do defy you to either not laugh or not recognise some of the characters as some guys you know (or ladies to that matter).

Take it for what it is good boardy British Sex Humour and you won't be disappointed.

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A REALLY FUNNY COMEDY
Review date: 2007-08-06 Rating: 8 out of 10

OK, in case you hadn't guessed, this is not a film for kids or watching with your parents. However, getting a group of mates down the cinema to watch this is definitely recommended.

A mate of mine came up to see me last week and suggested we go and see a film. This was the only thing on by the time we got out the door and so there was little choice in the matter. I was curious to see what Johnny Vegas would be like after 'Blackball' which I was a tad disappointed by (but that's another review for another time, folks!) and Mackenzie Crook after being Gareth (in The Office for any Yanks). I absolutely loved it. The plot was consistent and believable enough (for a sex comedy) to make the scenarios that little more amusing. The characters, although necessarily exaggerated, were spot-on and the running gags had me in stitches. I will never be able to look at strawberry jam in the same way again...

Johnny Vegas was his usual slightly bemused working class hero and Mackenzie Crook made a very good sidekick, showing that he really is a good comic actor without the pudding-bowl haircut.

I give this **** out of *****. A thoroughly good film which will have you grimacing and guffawing in turns.


could try harder
Review date: 2007-05-13 Rating: 6 out of 10

This had an atmosphere around it that it was maybe an idea for a TV Show that ended up being a film based as it is on little episodic moments in a linear 'plot'. Seems like an updated take on 'The Confessions of a...' films that were popular in the 60/70's (?) where women greeted the milkman in a flimsy nightie and had some nookie while the husband was at work. Taken in this context it is an amusing reappraisal of sexual mores post-millenium. Also, there is something terribly sad about sleeping on a stock room shelf that touched my funny bone rather more than all the odd sex stuff which some of the older generation could find 'shocking' but I found quite lame. But then I suppose that is the point of the film - the difference between the promise of kinky sex and the grubby reality (reminded me of an episode of The League of Gentlemen in some ways).

best british comedy for years
Review date: 2007-03-15 Rating: 10 out of 10

This is not a film for the easily offended/politically correct mob, so see it before you dismiss it. There are plenty of jokes about kinky sex, but they are carried off with great artistry by Vegas et al. Also I think this film deserves credit for its commentary on contemporary gender roles: the women are completely liberated and in control; the men are left out in the cold - delivering spuds. In the end though it is a wonderful little film and a fantastic laff.

Just awful
Review date: 2007-02-21 Rating: 2 out of 10

Quite what messrs Gatiss, Vegas and Crook are doing in this dross in anyone's guess. Although I would have to suspect that a few quid for a couple of days work had everything to do with it.

This is a repellent piece of film making that features a witless script, flat direction, hopeless incidental music and a level of acting that could best be described as gurning.


Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Dominic Coleman
Mackenzie Crook
Johnny Vegas
Mark Gatiss
Barry Aird

Creators:
Johnny Vegas (Primary Contributor)
Mackenzie Crook (Primary Contributor)
Andy Collins (Cinematographer)
Andy Humphries (Writer)
Guy Bensley (Editor)
Andy Stebbing (Producer)
Anita Overland (Producer)
Nigel Green (Producer)
Robert Jones (Producer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Entertainment in Video
Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
EAN: 5017239115028
Binding: VHS Tape
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2004-06-28
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running time: 83 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2004

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