Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
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Doctor Harry Hill brings his madcap humour to the big screen and he manages to rope in Matt Lucas, Julie Walters, Johnny Vegas, Sheridan Smith, Simon Bird and Jim Broadbent where he embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his pet hamster, Abu Hamster who is oozing green stuff only has one week to live. However this is only a scheme hatched by his long lost twin and a pair of henchmen.Trouble is Hill ends up in Blackpole where he spends a night in a guest house run by the Magic Numbers and takes a guided tour of a nuclear power plant by a cleaner (Oscar winner Jim Broadbent in drag!)The film contains sniper chicken useful for a midweek dinner, radioactive hamsters, a dog Jackson 5 tribute, the Dachshund 5, shell people, a fox that is a master of disguise and Blackpool.Its a madcap, surreal, silly mayhem. The film rather lulls in the middle when you feel its run out of steam and laughs. The humour is a bit hit and miss, however switch your brain off, watch it with the kids and it is mildly entertaining and amusing.
Harry Hill is and always has been a little bit like Marmite - you either like him or you hate him. The same can be said for The Harry Hill Movie.Harry Hill has always done surreal comedy, that's given, even back in the days when he was on Channel 4. In more recent times he became even more well known for TV Burp, which itself ran for 10 years and made Hill even more of a mainstream celebrity.Of course, having a successful show like TV Burp means anything you do afterwards is going to get compared to it. Including this film. Large chunks of the film are typical skits that with the right linking material wouldn't look out of place on TV Burp.The film's basic storyline essentially boils down to: Man takes dying hamster to Blackpool. Man's brother, who is into taxidermy and also a bit on the weird side, wants his brother's hamster to stuff. That premise stretches itself for 85 minutes - painfully. Not even the presence of Julie Walters, former Little Britain comedian Matt Lucas and the voice of Johnny Vegas can save this.Simon Bird features in this movie and can now have been said to have gone from one extreme to the other - his appearance in the excellent The Inbetweeners to his lacklustre own creation The King Is Dead (thankfully didn't last more than one series) and now Harry Hill Movie, which is only a step up from King is Dead due to the fact the movie had a bigger budget and was a better end production.There's a few things that could have worked better than they did but the end result appears to be a film made for the sake of making a film. The storyline starts off daft and gets dafter as the film progresses, ultimately concluding with a near obligatory final dance-off for no apparent reason.Harry Hill can do far better than this. Absolute die-hard Hill fans and those who loved, cherished and adored TV Burp will probably get a kick out of this but everybody else will just wonder what on earth is going on.
First of all i liked harry hill doing TV burp he was funny. Now he is dead to me he does not make me laugh like he used to. The film makes no sense and its just as bad as Keith lemon the film (oh the horror of that film). This movie has to be as bad as transformers 2. Julie Walters has good in her career but now she went the wrong way in acting. Harry hill's credit to comedy is gone like the hair on his head. Harry hills TV burp will never be the same again. The reason i give this movie 2 stars out of 10 is because i liked the idea that harry hill wanted to do a movie instead of just TV.Bad bad bad bad bad bad. This movie is so bad it makes Adam sanders jack and Jill look a wee bit good. Bad bad bad bad bad bad. If you liked this movie you either 1 love bad comedy's or 2 don't have a life and you laugh at anything.
When Harry's hamster Abu is targeted for kidnap by Harry's evil twin brother Otto, Harry and his Nan, believing that Otto has a mere week to live, decide to treat Abu to a week of living high on the hog. In Blackpool. While avoiding Otto's henchmen.Harry Hill is a British comedy performer, much loved on TV, whose work is characteristically eccentric and surreal, sometimes clever, and almost always child-like and extremely silly. The silliness appeals strongly to children: adults have to be in the mood and, in the context of a half-hour TV programme, adults can often find this mood. This film is 90 minutes of full-on Harry Hill silliness and, for adults, it may well be a bit tough to take - I know that, despite laughing intermittently throughout, I did. I suspect it will work a lot better for kids. Harry breaks the fourth wall throughout (as per his established persona), Julie Walters, as Harry's Nan, is so far over the top she's nearly at the bottom on the other side, and the jokes vary hugely (there is a romance between Harry and a marine princess whose body is completely covered in seashells - her name is "Michelle". This joke may well sum up the entire film).I suspect that this film will not travel at all well.