ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

tmhughes768 The songs Ricky Gervais has written for Brent on his YouTube channel are nearly all very funny and would have carried this film to be a smash hit. Unfortunately, he decided to rely on old jokes from The Office and the basic same story from The Office Christmas Specials. Get back with Stephen Merchant please, everything you have done on your own has been average at best.

John Zackarias As a huge, long-time fan of The Office, I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about this spin off movie. Upon watching it, my skepticism was confirmed. Apart from an inexplicably annoying nervous laughter (or whatever it's supposed to be), which will surely make you cringe more every time you hear it, Brent's usual characteristics are intact: his horrible sense of humor, his complete inability to read the room, his ineptitude with understanding how he comes off to other people and his larger than life-view of himself. Still, the movie never impresses. Perhaps it is because in The Office, David Brent wasn't the only developed character. It had other fleshed out characters that gave the viewer some breathing room, ensuring that every second with Brent was complete, brilliantly panic-inducing hilarity. In this movie, Brent is the only person we ever get to know anything about, so without a solid bunch of likable characters, it is easy to tire of him. Unfortunately, the concept of Brent being a musician quickly loses its charm. In The Office, it was enough to hear his band name a single time to burst out in laughter. This movie creates more of a beating the dead horse-situation.I wouldn't deter any fan of The Office from seeing the movie, but I would advise that they do so without expecting too much.

Leofwine_draca I was in two minds about David Brent: Life on the Road when I first heard about it. I absolutely adore THE OFFICE but I fully realise it was made over 15 years ago, when the idea was fresh and novel. Ricky Gervais has subsequently made stuff I wasn't so keen on (EXTRAS and LIFE'S TOO SHORT were watchable but I didn't even bother with DEREK) so I had no idea what to expect from this.Viewers should note that this is an OFFICE spin-off rather than follow up; the biggest disappointment is that none of the cast of THE OFFICE return aside from Gervais. However, Brent is such a larger-than-life character that it doesn't really matter, and he has an all-new office of characters to support him here. Jo Hartley, of THIS IS ENGLAND fame, brings some surprising warmth to her part of one of his few allies.Most of the film takes the form of a road trip in which Brent and his band mate buddies go on various gigs around the country, seeking fame and fortune. Gervais is a pretty good singer but he chooses the dumbest lyrics for his songs in order to embarrass his character. And this is a film all about embarrassment and cringe-making scenes, as you'd expect. A lot of the jokes are familiar from THE OFFICE, but somehow it's fun to see Brent back to being the brunt of all the hatred again. Ben Bailey Smith gives the stand-out turn as the rapper that Brent teams up with. I'm not sure about the random Hollywood ending stuff but the rest of the film is a nice reminder of what made Brent such a compelling character in the first place.

SnoopyStyle David Brent (Ricky Gervais) gained a little notoriety from the BBC2 documentary The Office. The film crew has caught up with him once again. He now aspires to be a singer-songwriter in between doing sales calls. His band is called Foregone Conclusion. He is now working at Lavichem selling toilet products. He continues to be the same clueless self-obsessed idiot as before. He signed half-black rapper Dom Johnson and starts writing for him. He decides to spend all his money to go on tour with his music.Brent in an office continues to be good comedy. When he's on his concert tour, the comedy becomes flatter and more one dimensional. Everybody is smarter than him and sees the idiocy of his songs. Some of the songs are actually good in its fun stupidity. This is for those who love the original Office but also those who like Gervais' brand of comedy.