Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

craig-hopton A gentle comedy drama about a Greek family living in London who go from rags to riches and learn what is really important in life.It's not exactly an original idea but it's performed by a good cast of actors whom it is easy to warm to.It's impossible to dislike the Papadopoulos family. There's the two estranged brothers Harry and Spiros who have to work through their differences, and then there's the three children, of which the star is Theo, played by Thomas Underhill.Theo is a child genius who wears a bright bow-tie, likes to trade on the stock market in his spare time and gets all the best lines. This would be a poorer movie without him.The actual plot is rather predictable. Harry loses his fortune and even when he has the chance to get it back, learns to prioritise his family and his roots. His high-flying accountant is a cliché of a greedy banker. And of course there's a pretty love interest.Papadopoulos & Sons is not an exceptional movie but it's warmhearted and easy to watch.

JOHN MOONEY Nice camera-work but the lack of storyline severely limits this film's potential. Although it looks good the story never really develops and there are huge leaps of both imagination and plot.At times there is a strong flavour of the work of Mike Leigh but this cannot detract from the fact that the film itself is so boring. It is so slowly paced, there is so little in the story for one to feel empathy for the characters and the story itself is so stilted that you are left checking how much more of the film there is to endure barely half an hour into it.Very unsatisfying fare. Like cutting into crispy batter to find no fish inside.

MattyGibbs This is a rare example of a film that to my eyes has no redeeming qualities at all. The premise is good but that's about all I can say that is in anyway positive. The characters are awful caricatures, the casting is appalling with characters that in no way ring true, the acting is unbelievably bland and uninspiring, the script is witless, and the music is terrible. I don't mind slow moving films but this moved slower than a snail with a bad hangover. I stuck with it in case it improved but sadly it just meandered painfully on and on and on. This is one of the most boring and dismally acted films I have ever had the misfortune to sit through. It's touted as a comedy drama but has neither of these things. Avoid unless you have trouble sleeping, in which case this will be the perfect remedy. Appalling.

cinematic_aficionado Despite not being anywhere near the league of great film, still it is one of the better British films of recent times, in the sense that we get to escape from the council estates and the thugs they supposedly breed as well as the horrible language that makes one wanting to have a shower after a screening.We follow the story of two brothers who migrated from Cyprus to England, one of whom became a millionaire and fully embraced the British ways whilst the other did not do so well and remained faithful to his routes and culture.There is real warmth conveyed in this film and the importance of family is never underestimated, again a non-entry in many British films. In a short space of time we undergo a journey of emotions, hopes, aspirations and sadness that is a part in an immigrant's life.A man goes from top to bottom and struggles to come to terms with the new reality of both the situation and the fact that he has to give up his ultra posh life and move to a lower middle class neighbourhood. Whilst we can rush to assume him as a snob, the truth is that he isn't; the issue he has is not so much encountering his brother and the old life, but the fact that as far as he was concerned all this was left behind him and simply moved on to a different place.Despite the presence of elements that could potentially have made this a gem of a film, somehow it is rather corny (or simply not aimed high enough) and that reduces it to a warming, charming family comedy.