bowmanblue
Now, I'm reliably informed that Keith Lemon (or the guy who plays him - whose name I don't actually know) does other - very popular - shows like Bo Selecta and Celebrity Juice. However, I never saw any of those.I rented Keith Lemon, on the grounds that I kept seeing articles and interviews about it in The Sun newspaper. The papers were also full of stories on The Inbetweeners Movie (which was awesome!) so I kind of considered, based on the massive newspaper publicity campaign, that this one must be worth a watch too.It's not.I was about five minutes in when I gauged the level of this movie. In short, it's just not funny. I don't mind toilet humour. I don't mind crudeness. And I don't mind silliness. However, crude, silly toilet humour has to actually be funny to pass. Keith Lemon used all of these and just never manages to make a joke. It relies on celebrity cameos every couple of minutes. Most of these are misfires and come across as forced and badly-acted.It's just bad. Seriously, check out the other reviews on any other website (I wish I had). The majority of people are giving it one star (and that's positively generous).I'm tempted to watch Bo Selecta or Celebrity Juice to see if they're any better. I'm sure this guy must have made some good stuff, otherwise he would never have got this travesty of a film off the ground.Stick with The Inbetweeners Movie if you want a taste of British humour at its best. Just bury Keith.If life gives you lemons, don't make a movie about them.
FlashCallahan
Ten years ago, Leigh Francis was funny. Bo Selecta came from nowhere and really degraded certain celebrities who were a little too big for their boots.The show got cancelled, and then a new character came by. several series of a panel show later, we get a film, and it's really poor to say the least.i knew it wasn't going to be anything special, just a love in with a lot of famous people (well to us Brits anyway) making nudge nudge wink wink references to the camera, with a little sub-plot, involving a new invention.The trouble is, this sub-plot is stolen from The Jerk, the classic Steve Martin movie, and makes the whole thing pointless and un-original.They even rip off the fault with the glasses from the original.It's just a poor movie, harking back to those smutty seventies Carry on movies, and other movies like Holiday on the buses.When Kelly Brook is the best thing about a movie, you start to worry. I would give this one star, but it made me laugh when Paddy Mcguinness stared at the camera and said 'See you in the Sequel'.Delusional, but funny.A horrid affair in every sense, with no redeeming features.
Jackson Booth-Millard
When I saw the trailer I was keen to see this film because I love the lead character in Bo' Selecta! and Celebrity Juice, but I was put off when I read many negative reviews, saying it was one of the worst films ever made, I eventually decided to watch and see whether I would agree. Basically Keith Lemon (Leigh Francis) is hoping to make a success and a business from his invention, the securipole, by taking it to a convention in London, and he has been trying for twenty years to get it off the ground, but it fails to get any attention or investment. His girlfriend Rosie (Laura Aikman) meanwhile has to confide in his best friend Dougie (Kevin Bishop) after discovering she is pregnant, and also with a ridiculous order of 1,000,000 securipoles at the failing company that have been delivered by Evil Steve (also Francis) who is owed the money for them. Keith takes the advice of fellow business Kushvinder (Coronation Street's Harish Patel) to give up on what is not working, and he offers him his business that is also not working, a whole range of touch screen mobile phones that he can do whatever with, and his only request is to get a percentage of profits if he makes it successful. He is also gets in touch with someone calling himself "the fixer", who will turn out to be his guardian angel, Archimedes (Verne Troyer), who manages to get him a spot on the prime time television chat show hosted by The Hoff - David Hasselhoff, and also appearing is the woman he has always fantasised about meeting, model and actress Kelly Brook. On first instance Keith fails to grab attention with his phone, but he sticks a sticky lemon sweet on the back of it and astounds the audience, and he instantly becomes an overnight sensation selling millions of the new model of phone, that he calls the Lemon Phone, the Keith Lemon Phone. Kelly Brook is impressed with his newfound fame and fortune, and they start dating, with Rosie unaware, and Dougie, dressed as Keith, trying to find him to bring him back and sort the problem with Evil Steve, but with all the money he wants, able to get anything he wants and having the gorgeous star by his side, Keith's ego has been changed. Eventually though his luck ends when a major technical fault is discovered with the phones, it cases the users' mouths to go wonky and gain a speech impediment, and with this happening all over the customers are out to get him, blaming him for what has happened to them, and he knows he has no choice but to return to a lowly existence. Finally deciding to listen to those he formally cared about he takes advice from best friend Dougie to leave Kelly Brook who only cared about his money and go to save Rosie who has been kidnapped and held by Evil Steve, he does manage to help her, and life returns to normal as he forms a good business from home and has children. Also starring Paddy McGuinness as Gary, Nina Wadia as Pat and Abigail Hamilton as Keith's Auntie Fanny, with cameos from Peter Andre, Gary Barlow, Fearne Cotton, Emma Bunton, Melanie 'Mel C' Chisholm, Gino D'Acampo, Jason Donovan, Jedward, Vernon Kay, Ronan Keating, Chris Moyles, Billy Ocean (who Keith claims is his father), Craig Phillips, Phillip Schofield, Rizzle Kicks, Tinchy Stryder, Denise van Outen and Holly Willoughby. Francis has his popular character say his famous catchphrases, "Ooosh", "Bang tidy", "If I don't see you through week, I'll see you through window" and "I'd smash her back doors in", and he becomes Businessman of the Year, he also pleases the Bo' Selecta! fans with appearances from his other popular characters, rubber masked Craig David and Mel B, The Bear and Avid Merrion, the celebrities appear quickly and in near succession, Brook is sexy and sassy, Bishop is ridiculous, and Troyer is daft but alright casting. Critics and people watching gave this film the lowest of the low opinions and reviews, I will confess that I found some of it kind of fun to watch, but there are many overly crude and disgusting moments I can agree are awful, the worst being a spunking scene, and it certainly is not a good film, I was probably laughing for the wrong reasons, well, not even much laughing, if like me you love the character or his shows you'll watch it once, but no more because it is a very disappointing comedy. Pretty poor!
richy1024
There has always been a temptation for successful television series to have a stab at the big screen. Unfortunately, as many have tried notably all fail to reach the heights they cheered on broadcast television. There was of course the noteworthy astonishing success of The Inbetweeners, grossing over £45 million at the UK box office. E4's teenage bonanza was undeniably a surprise package. Its plot possessed a distinct relation to its audience and their lifestyle, refreshing memories of drunken unities on economical holidays abroad with your chums.A year on and next in line to attempt the leap of uncertainty is Leigh Francis, with his ultra-successful character Keith Lemon, that of ITV2's Celebrity Juice. A similar audience barrier, similar purpose but a programme of distinct difference and quality done in a game show format. Celebrity Juice is quite simply massive in the UK, with various 'trendy' celeb names on board and the attendance of the female Ant & Dec it in Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton, i.e. Big Chest and Nostrils. Mr Lemon is charismatically known for his visualisation of clothing, 'strawberry' blonde locks, his raving Leeds accent, his flamboyancy and grotesque personality, groping his testicles as often as the assets of every female acquaintance he has on-set. Keith Lemon: The Film in essence consists of an alternation of these rudiments. The film is amateurish, poorly written and full of squeamish non-laughable habits that do not posses the same reaction they do on Lemon's enigmatic television series. The waves of hilarity are sadly non-existent on the full-size screen. The northerner's humour is flat, repetitive and bullied by too many sexual references.Keith's journey begins on a dirty sheeted bed, full of sweat and a potato sandwich. He then quickly morphs into a multi-billionaire over night by 'inventing' a new mobile phone with a squishy lemon on the rear. To cut to the trimmings, the script takes us through a tasteless party of celebration, paradise jewels and Kelly Brook. Kelly's acting 'skills' have never gone without notification. Efforts in Three (2005) and most recently in Piranha (2010) were forty winks material and nothing more than another medium for the model to flash her figure at. The 33 year ought to stay in front of the lingerie camera than ruin her reputation with even more supplementary remarks of fury at her on-screen capabilities. Furthermore, Verne Troyer seems to have raised the squeak and David Hasselhoff needs to close the curtains. Short cameos from a number of celebrity faces can be recognised from their attendance on Lemon's TV collection but apart from those bothersome Irish twins, Jedward, the list of others seem too embarrassed to be associated with the movies existence.Celebrity Juice will continue to flourish over the coming years, but once the programme adds itself to the endless list of witty slapstick TV schedule gap fillers, many would doubt Leigh Francis to create another lasting alternative to his current character. Francis will forever be documented as Keith Lemon, no matter how often he posed as Avid Merrion. The film is about as awful as La Vida Loca and Lemon's ghastly fitness DVD regimes. Save yourself the ticket and walk onto the next screen where you'll surely see the comparison between television and motion picture acting.
