The Harry Hill Movie (2013)

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.

The humour was alright in this film, but it lacked adult humour. Harry Hill tried to aim at kids with this film, and not his general audience.It was a silly story and made out Harry Hill as very annoying, Simon Pegg was amazing as a villain in this, and the other tall guy, I can't remember his name, sorry was brilliant. The problem was the main villain was the most boring character in the movie.It will make more sense if you have watched TV Burp, but because it is aimed at kids, it just doesn't make sense, kids aren't going to have watched TV Burp! Adults may find a few laughs, but other than that, the movie is mediocre.

Really funny surprise. This movie should not be funny, it starts out like The Pee-wee Herman movie, and in a very solid way without ever wavering from the nut hatchery, you end up with a real treat. I honestly Enjoyed this movie, and for all of the reasons that at first glance were just too over the top. The colour is fabulous, and all of the characters are so well fleshed out down to the henchmen who could have felt really stupid, but came across quite well. I want to not like the Shell folk, but well they do smell a bit off. This is at it's heart I think a musical, with montages, and crazy out of the blue singing, and dancing that is so out of place that it actually fits. Nan has knit a cozy for everything, and why does she, and Harry share a bunk bed when Abu gets a room to himself will forever be a mystery, but that hamster is as alive as the baby on Family guy, and the fact that no one understands him is really well handled. This movie is as good as any Muppet movie of the past 20 years, in fact Abu really reminds me of Bean Bunny. I recommend this one for the whole family, or every kid over the age of green.

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.