Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken £100 bet and sets off with his unconventional traveling companion for an adventure that proved to be entertaining, educational, challenging and at times downright silly.
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SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Amateur movie with Big budget
A Masterpiece!
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Honestly, I would give it a negative score if only it were possible.Marvel as an Englishman and his fridge travel around nondescript bits of English countryside that could very well be mistaken for nondescript bits of Irish countryside. Along the way he encounters other English people putting on Irish accents and acting the Paddy. Oh how we all laughed. Not since "Eastenders" went to Ireland have I seen something this terrible. It's that toxic mix of low-budget, low-imagination and low-intelligence.You could watch the paint dry for an hour or two instead if you were stuck for something to do. At least that would leave you feeling indifferent instead of mildly annoyed.Ed Byrne has a lot of explaining to do.
Tripe, drivel, rubbish, crap, dross, whatever you call it, it's still the same thing. This film missed the genuine sparkle contained within the book, which was a silly story about a silly person doing something silly. I've (obviously) read the book, and loved it! This tries much too hard to be funny, and as a result, falls flat. Tony Hawks' comedy is minutely observational, and can be cripplingly funny (see his website), so you would imagine he'd be a gifted scriptwriter. This steaming pile, however, is didacticism at its worst. Pity he didn't get his pal, Arthur Smith involved!.. I managed a whole hour, but it felt much longer. It started slow (not a bad thing), and slowed down! TH's career has stalled recently, so I guess this was a way to pay the mortgage!..Turn over, and watch the weather channel instead, it would certainly be more instructive, and may even be funnier!..Better still, read the book!..Here's hoping his next project, an adaptation of another of his books, 'Playing the Moldovans' at Tennis is better...
The film is an adaptation of Tony Hawks book and whilst it is difficult to capture the cheeky and unique story which happens in the book, the film is funny and has some brilliant cameos (spot the father Ted character!).The story deviates slightly from the book but provides an interesting and compelling story. It's not going to win any Oscars but provides some good honest fun within a small budget. Also some of the scenery is brilliant and captures the Irish countryside. Definitely better than other film adaptations - similar to Yes Man but closer to the original story.
OK so I didn't get to the end...in fact we couldn't get past 10 min before leaving....wooden acting...wooden dialogue...Now I have to write ten lines to make this review go through, but in all honesty, I've said everything I can about this film. I was expecting to laugh my head off but my partner and I were sitting there in stunned silence as we waited for it to improve. This has to be one of the worst attempts at film making that I have ever sat through, and as a forty something year old from Australia, that's saying something. It took me back to the B grade quality of films that Australia used to produce in the mid seventies...except without the humour.