Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie (2014)
Certified: 12
Duration: 94 minutes
Directed by: Ben Kellett
Starring: Brendan O’Carroll, Nick Nevern, Eilish O’Carroll, Paddy Houlihan, Jennifer Gibney, Danny O’Carroll, Dermot Crowley, Robert Bathurst, Dermot O’Neill, Fiona O’Carroll, Simon Delaney, Chris Patrick-Simpson, Keith Duffy as John
KRS Releasing Ltd

BBC’s hit television sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys makes its way to the big screen. The series was created by Brendan O’Carroll who also stars as the main character, as do many close friends and family members.

The TV show is unique in the way it approaches its production. with many mistakes made by the cast being left in the production on purpose.

In addition, O’Carroll also stars as the titular Agnes Brown, making him a sort of British Mrs Doubtfire but with plenty of the unorthodox and the unusual up his skirt. The series is a veritable hit in the UK and is gaining popularity in Australia. It has won several awards along the way while making enemies out of critics.

The film was made on a £3.6 million budget and in its few weeks has already tripled that sum in box-office takings, making it this year’s surprise British hit. The fans have responded and the result is a movie that delivers the laughs in same style as the sitcom.

Mrs Brown’s Boys takes on the classic premise of David v Goliath, with the little guy being a man dressed up as Mrs Brown (Brendan O’Carroll) – a role model of a mother and protector of the downtrodden – who is faced off by big corporation and Russian Mafia types who want to buy her food stall plot in Dublin’s Moore Street Market. The drag type Mrs Brown will bring all her resources to the rescue including blind ninjas!

Into this basic premise of a plot, O’Carroll places all the crass humour with a 1970s-style approach, so much that the movie looks like it could have been made by the Benny Hill show team. It has all kinds of innuendos that will either leave you amazed or simply laughing at the incredulity of the scenes.

It is obvious to whom the film is being aimed at: the show’s fans and the film plays out to the max to its loyal fan base. It delivers every action, comment and line of humour in a casual manner, making it a very relaxed movie, not deviating much from the sitcom, just expanding it to its new format demands.

Director Ben Kellett delivers the film with enough good intentions and well-designed cheer and fun. The fan base reaction has already been enough to encourage BBC Films to immediately declare that the company is ready to back up another movie starring the prickly Mrs Brown.