I expected so much from this film. Which was always a worry. Another UK TV show that tried to transfer it's format to the big screen and failed in a majorly big way. The show as a TV entity is brilliant and can do no wrong. Sadly the same can't be said of it's big screen incarnation. The characters themselves are very strong on TV and thrive well in the setting of Royston Vasey. But the entire concept of this film is that the Gents themselves have decided to kill off those characters in favour of something more highbrow and serious.
So some of the characters of Royston Vasey make their way to the real world to stop this happening. Tubbs, Edward & Pappa Lazarou fail in this endeavor as they can't fit into the real world well enough. Bernice, Dr Chinnery & Pauline are supposed to be the next team to go through. Unfortunately for Royston Vasey, Hillary Briss, Herr Lipp and Geoff Tipps go through in their place as Hillary Briss was fleeing from the police.
They track down the Gents and kidnap Steve Pemberton replacing him with Herr Lipp (who makes a better Steve than Steve does). The film that the remaining Gents were writing is introduced as a (really bad) story within a story. Eventually the remaining 2 Gents discover Herr Lipp really isn't Steve and they arrange to trade him with the real Steve. Of course it means they all go back to Royston Vasey and have a really bad ending where all the Gents die.
Very bad film, very bad middle and ending. It has NO redeeming features. Best avoided even by fans.
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