Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Michael sky Everyone who says that Nathan Barley is trash(bat.co.ck) never known anyone like Barley or Ashcroft. These days you can not help but be bombarded by the idiots who are going to inherit the world. I didn't have to watch this show. All I had to do was go outside of my apartment in London to see the idiots with massive amount of money and no direction.For me it wasn't funny watching my life portrayed by Dan Ashcroft who seems to be the only one who sees through the idiots persona. He is the only one who realizes that there is no escape, there is no turning back, there is nothing you can do to avert the rise of the Idiots.This is a sharp commentary on todays idiot youth. Its funny and to the point. Everyone should watch it and see if they know any 'Idiots'

Mr_Alex Opinions are mixed about Nathan Barley - suffice to say, if you expect Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker to re-hash their earlier work and be satisfied then you've misunderstood their ethos (wheras I'm guessing at it - but at least I'm making an effort!!)It's not Brasseye or TV Go Home, and why would it be? They're done, they exist and we can watch/read them. The target for their humour might be narrow, but it works from a city-dweller perspective - and as I recall from my youth, there's always stupid trend-focused fools in villages too!I loved it - you might? But it's not Jam or Brasseye, or TV Go Home or Charlie's Guardian columns (although I *would* like to see Charlie getting proper spleen-venting exposure!).

rupebear26 I came to Nathan Barley one Friday night totally by accident, as i am usually out and about on weekend nights. I stumbled on it and was immediately sucked in by their world. It may have got the lowest ratings channel 4 have ever received on a Friday night, but its popularity in DVD format shows its cult following. HMV (Leeds)sold out in their first week and had to re-order another 200 or so due to unexpected sales. The comedy depicts an image-conscious world where most of the characters are working in the media spectrum, either in newspapers (Dan Ashcroft), documentaries (Claire Ashcroft) or in websites/music or anything else he can get his idiotic hands into (aka Nathan Barley). The show is the typical 6 episodes. It centres mainly around the 'friendship' between Nathan Barley and Dan Ashcroft. Barley loves Ashcroft and wants to be just like him (e.g. copying haircut, salmon/scrambled egg coffee) but Dan Ashcroft despises him for being 'the King of the Idiots' and for wanting to sleep with his sister. Just as Dan seems to be winning his little personal duel against Barley, things go wrong for him. The comedy is layered and warrants multiple watches. I have watched 'The Mighty Boosh' last week to see what all the fuss was about. I personally believe Nathan Barley to be a far better comedy. More development of characters, better use of language, more money spent on design, interesting take on London society. Futuristic yet still very accessible, i recommend Nathan Barley to anyone. Even my dad managed a few laughs. It has catchphrases and songs, and games (Barley's take on paper, scissors, stones) and slogans (Suga Rape)and a high number of laughs per minute. It is worth buying the DVD just for the booklet of stencils and slogans and 'political comments' which accompanies it. Futures yeah! Would have been nice if Vince Noir (off 'the Mighty Boosh') had been given a better part. If Peep Show was the comedy of 2004, in the words of Ricky Gervais, perhaps Nathan Barley will end up being the new comedy of 2005. Believe.

thedavidovitch Perhaps because Chris Morris has maintained such high standards for so long, this dreadfully embarrassing, unfunny and achingly off-the-mark satire feels like even more of a let down than expected. But even the most die-hard of Morris devotees would struggle to raise the slightest titter.Morris is synonymous with cutting edge commentary of popular culture. So why did he choose to mimic a dot com coterie that is already five years out of date? And where is the characterisation, plot - or jokes? And WHAT is that direction? It's barely audible, barely intelligible and utterly bereft of humour.TV and cinema are littered with the corpses of those who tried to jump from one genre to another and didn't make it, because they didn't understand the different rules of the new genre. Perhaps this is what happened here. Morris is a great satirist. Charlie Brooker is a great, er, TV columnist. But neither of them seem to have the slightest idea as to what a sitcom is. In comparison to other contemporary sitcoms such as Spaced and Black Books, Nathan Barley looks like the work of a couple of stoned sixth formers with a DV camera.Here's hoping it's a blip. But next time, let's hope Morris works alone. Meanwhile, I'm assuming that Brooker crawled back into his box, proving once again that great critics do not great creatives make.*update* I see that from a very poor start of 1.2m viewers, by episode 3 NB is now down to an extraordinarily embarrassing 700,000. For a programme on primetime Ch4 and written by such a cult hero as Morris, that's a shocking slap in the face from the viewers. Who can blame them? I couldn't face another minute.