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Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Use British English Vorlage:Infobox film The Inbetweeners 2 is a British comedy film and sequel to The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), which is based on the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners. It was written and directed by series creators Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.

The film involves four school friends who meet up again for a holiday in Australia, and stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison.

The Inbetweeners 2 was released on 6 August 2014 in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, to positive reception from critics, although several found the film to be misogynistic. It surpassed the record of its predecessor for the highest gross on the opening day of a comedy in the UK, with £2.75 million.

Plot

Vorlage:Overly detailed Will, Neil and Jay's girlfriends have all broken up with them since the events of the last film, and Simon wants to break up with his girlfriend, Lucy, who he finds too clingy. Will and Simon are at university, Neil is working in a bank and Jay is taking a gap year in Australia. He emails the others, claiming that he runs a night club, lives in a mansion and has regular sex, convincing them to join him there for a holiday.

Once they arrive at the club they find Jay in fact only works as a toilet attendant. While at the club, Will meets Katie, an old friend who is backpacking, and she convinces Will and his friends to join her. The four boys arrive at Jay's current accommodation, a tent in the garden of his uncle's house, and his uncle mocks him in front of his friends. Simon attempts to break up with Lucy via a Skype call, but due to Jay's Uncle's interference he accidentally asks to marry her and hangs up the call, not knowing how to respond.

The next day the four travel to a youth hostel by a Peter Andre-branded car nicknamed 'The Mobile Virgin Conversion Unit' alongside Katie and her group of backpackers who are on a bus. Will attempts to become friends with one of them, Ben, but he is looked down upon because it is clear that he is a tourist and not a "traveller" as he claims. After arriving, Will Skypes his mother and notices that someone else is staying at their house; he questions his mother about this, but she badly denies that anyone is staying.

The following day, the boys and the backpackers visit a water park, where Jay intends to find his ex-girlfriend (a secret he has only told to Simon) Jane (who formerly worked there) and Neil intends to find a job as a dolphin trainer. Jay plays a prank on Simon, telling other guests that he is a paedophile and pushing him onto a small child, which results in him being beaten up and Simon telling Will and Neil about Jay's attempt to find Jane out of spite. The park staff tell Jay that Jane has found a new job, but they don't know specifically where he can find her. Neil, following a conversation with Jay about how "cruel" the captive dolphin's raw fish diet is, pays to swim with a dolphin and feeds it fast food, inadvertently killing it. The stress of this instigates Neil's irritable bowel problem as he is about to ride one of the water slides after Will, causing him to accidentally defecate into the slide. Neil's faeces hit Will as he exits the slide causing him to begin vomiting in the large exit pool causing the whole pool to empty around him leaving him alone with a trail of vomit behind him in turn causing the water park to close.

Lucy tells Simon via Skype that Jane is working on a stud farm, and tells Simon that she and his parents have begun planning their wedding. Will decides to follow Katie instead of Jay, Simon and Neil, reasoning that it should be no harder for Jay to deal with a break up than it was for himself or Neil. However, Will struggles to fit in with the spiritual activities of the travellers and discovers that Katie is seeing multiple people at once, launching him into one of his foul-mouthed tirades towards them which leads Katie into having sex with Ben, whilst Will who is in a nearby bunk struggles to sleep.

The next day he leaves the hostel and by plane travels to reunite with his friends. While driving to Jane's workplace, their car runs out of fuel in the middle of a desert and the four unsuccessfully attempt to find a source of water or help. Desperately dehydrated, Simon resorts to drinking Neil's urine, but Neil misses and urinates over his face by accident. The group hold hands together as they realise that they will most likely die, but are rescued by Jane and her co-workers who reveal they have only been out there for two hours. Jane realises how far Jay came to win her over again, and although she is touched by the gesture, she does not take him back.

Back at Jay's uncle's house, the boys find that their parents have travelled to find them after hearing of their near-death experience. The boys are shocked to find Phil Gilbert (their old head of sixth form) there too, and Will's mother announces that she and Phil are in a relationship, to the horror of Will and amusement of the other three boys. Meanwhile, Jay pathetically attempts to attack his uncle (by slapping him) for insulting Jane's weight, instigating a fight between Jay's uncle and father. Over Skype, Lucy breaks up with Simon because she is now in a relationship with his university friend, Pete (who should have been his best man), which Simon responds to by cheering and abruptly hanging up on her.

The four boys decide to travel around Vietnam for some time, which is depicted in a montage during the film's credits which also include the boys at a shooting range. As they return to England, Will's mother reveals that she and Phil are engaged and Will attempts to run away from them back towards their plane and is wrestled to the ground by security.

Cast

From left to right: Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, James Buckley and Blake Harrison

• Simon Bird as Will McKenzie
• James Buckley as Jay Cartwright
• Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland
• Joe Thomas as Simon Cooper
• Emily Berrington as Katie
• Belinda Stewart-Wilson as Polly McKenzie
• Tamla Kari as Lucy
• Freddie Stroma as Ben
• Lydia Rose Bewley as Jane
• David Schaal as Terry Cartwright
• Alex MacQueen as Kevin Sutherland
• Martin Trenaman as Alan Cooper
• Robin Weaver as Pamela Cooper
• Greg Davies as Mr. Gilbert
• Brad Kannegiesser as Jasper

Daisy Ridley's scenes were cut from the final version.

Production

Parts of the film were shot in the isolated Outback settlement of Marree, South Australia

Development

Although originally intended as an unambiguous ending to the television series, the unprecedented popularity and box office success of The Inbetweeners Movie led to speculation over the possibility of a sequel. Producer Christopher Young also openly recognised the possibility of another film based on the series, claiming that "if there is a sequel it will come from the creative elements ... We've talked about it. In the short term people are dispersing and doing other things but I'm sure in the medium term a sequel is very possible. It won't be immediate but it's definitely not closed."

On 21 August 2012, it was announced that a sequel was in early stages of pre-production. On 8 November, it was announced by series creators Morris and Beesley that a script was being written and it was at "version 0.5" On 1 May 2013, it was announced that, although nothing had been signed, a sequel was in the planning stage possibly set in Australia and to be released sometime in 2014.

Ben Palmer, the director of the first Inbetweeners film, was involved with Simon Pegg's film Man Up, so Morris and Beasley directed The Inbetweeners 2.

On 2 August 2013, the sequel was officially confirmed for release in August 2014. The series' Facebook page revealed on 15 March 2014 that the sequel would be released on 6 August 2014.

On 9 May 2014, a teaser trailer was released, in which the characters drive through the Outback and call an Aborigine a "fire wanker". A second trailer, this time full length, was released on The Inbetweeners official Facebook page on 18 June, showing more of the storyline.

Filming

Filming began in Australia on 7 December 2013, before moving to the UK in January 2014. Part of the film was shot in Marree, South Australia, an isolated Outback settlement without mobile reception or Internet.

Release

The film premiered at Leicester Square, London, on 5 August 2014. In attendance were guests including Beverley Knight and Union J.

Reception

Box office

The Inbetweeners 2 grossed £2.75 million on its opening day, surpassing its predecessor as the top grossing opening day in the UK for a comedy film.

Critical reception

Vorlage:Album reviews The film received positive reviews. As of 11 August 2014, it holds a 74% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10. On imdb it has a rating of 7.6/10 based on 3635 reviews

Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph gave the film four stars out of five, saying "Perhaps the biggest compliment you could pay the film, apart from that it’s by and large hysterically funny, is that it is unmistakably film-like, with a smoothly arcing plot and gross-out moments staged with the verve and ceremony of an action-movie set-piece." In The Guardian, Mike McCahill gave the film three stars. He found fault in its treatment of female characters, saying "Some of the abundant thought channelled into knob gags could have been diverted towards developing the boys' female counterparts beyond harpies and lust objects". Unlike Collin, he found The Inbetweeners 2 to resemble a television show more than a film: "as with the first film, number 2 never quite shakes its resemblance to primetime E4, complete with ad-ready fadeouts and Walkabout interiors...couldn't the vehicles transporting them to the wider world display slightly more ambition?". Chris Hewitt of Empire magazine gave the film four stars out of five, summing it up as "The Fannytastic Four leave us on a poo-flecked, piss-soaked, sun-burned high that more than overcomes its familiar flaws to become a real contender for the year’s funniest film. Four star wankers".

A negative review came from Graham Young of the Birmingham Mail, who found the film's humour to be repetitive: "Damon Beesley and Iain Morris have both directed this sequel which lacks an emotional arc to create momentum...Yes, it can be funny, and you’d have to be a prude not to laugh...But the endless, alliterative phrases for sex and countless in-your-face sight gags dilute the characters and turn the mood wearingly lewd. Like Nick Frost’s The Cuban Fury [sic] earlier this year, The Inbetweeners 2 takes a funny premise – and then ruins it." Writing in The Observer, Jonathan Romney gave the film two stars out of five, summing it up as "British TV comedy's favourite Four Stooges take another holiday, resulting in fountainous poo, pee and puke, rampant misogyny, "ironic" rampant misogyny, rampant "irony", and that old Carry On staple, horror of sex (especially among the over-25s)". He however predicted that on the record of the first film, The Inbetweeners 2 would be a financial success. In Time Out, Tom Huddleston gave the film one star out of five, saying "‘The Inbetweeners 2’ is riddled with contempt: for its characters, for its audience and most notably for the entire female gender. That a film in 2014 can still get away with depicting all women as either dumb, hapless sluts or ball-busting harridans is frankly unbelievable."

Legacy

At its premiere on 5 August 2014, Simon Bird said of the film:

See also

• List of films based on British sitcoms

External links

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