Review of Cemetery Junction (2010) by Greg T — 21 Apr 2010
The thought of watching a Ricky Gervais film sends a chill of despair through me akin to the threat of sitting through another 3hr David Lynch film that stops making sense 3 minutes in. Not, though, because Gervais is incomprehensible, but because I just don't find him funny.
"The Office" was painful, and the less said about his two Hollywood outings the better. But "Cemetery Junction" promised to be different - a tale of friendship and stasis in a Reading that was categorically missing the joys of London's flash propensity for swinging.
And, annoyingly, it is different - genuinely (rather than painfully) funny, touching and convincing, with an eye and ear for the era last seen in the similarly excellent "Nowhere Boy". Of course there's no subtlety here - racism, sexism, mysogyny, teen angst, alcoholism - all are presented as broadly and unsubtlely as the tattoo on the fat kid's chest.
But you didn't expect subtlety from the writer of Flanimals, right?
This review of Cemetery Junction (2010) was written by Greg T on 21 Apr 2010.
Cemetery Junction has generally received positive reviews.
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