The Inbetweeners Movie Soundtrack Review
For those of you who are massive fans of The Inbetweeners, you need to buy this. Even if you’re not a fan, then it’s a soundtrack that you’ll find yourself listening to again and again.
rating: 4
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Everyones heard of The Inbetweeners. If you havent, then where have you been? Living in a cave for the past couple of years? Visiting the most desolate places in the world? Attempting to break the record for the longest a person has gone without watching T.V. or logging on to the internet? Becoming a hermit and not communicating with any form of the outside world? For those of you out there who fit into these categories (and I congratulate you on finding this review considering youll be a bit out of date with modern technology), heres a bit of background information about the television series thats taken the country by storm. The first ever episode was aired on 1st May, 2008 and it attracted 238,000 viewers. By the end of the first series, it averaged 459,000 viewers with 474,000 watching the final episode and as a show of how much it impressed people and of its calibre, The Inbetweeners received two nominations at the British Comedy Awards. These were for Best New British Television Comedy and Simon Bird was nominated for Best Male Comedy Newcomer. Both of these awards were won by the show. By the start of series two, the buzz had been created for the show to really take off and for it to become a household name. The first episode of series two attracted over a million viewers an obviously huge increase from series ones first episode and it was the highest audience of 2009 for E4. Series three, episode one was watched by 2.6 million viewers; breaking a record in the process for an overnight average audience. The Inbetweeners, by then, had well and truly made it as a successful show and many phrases and terms that the characters would regularly say were being used on the street by fans. Bus wankers, is one of these phrases that became almost cult-like in its usage and it still brings a smile. People just couldnt get enough of the hopelessly pathetic characters and loved the lad style of humour that was the shows chief protagonist for laughs. In 2010, it won the Audience Award at the British Academy Television Awards this was just due course for the show, and also could be seen as a fitting finale as the series ended after series three. Many people were gutted when the show ended: what would they look forward to on telly now? Repeats of Taggart are hardly appealing; neither is a documentary on teenage pregnancy, so when it was announced that The Inbetweeners movie was going to be made, millions of people couldnt wait to watch it. Seeing as the movie focuses on the cast going on a boys holiday, the music choice would be essential in getting the atmosphere just right and its got to be said that the soundtrack has been picked very well and the right musicians have been chosen. The whole track-listing is good, so Im not going to bore you by writing about every song. The tracks that specifically stand out are the ones Ill write about but the best thing to do is go and buy the soundtrack for yourself youll know then that this review would have been more like an essay if I were to tell you about every good song. Gimme Love by The Vines is perhaps the most different track here. Its essentially a rock song, and considering the rest of the songs lie in the dance/pop/R & B genres, it is bound to stick out to the rest. Its a song that youd expect from The Vines, as it has plenty of frenzied guitar-playing, frenetic drumming and vocals and lyrics thatll stay in your head long after the song is over. Gimme love / gimme love / gimme love/ I really need it / gimme love / gimme love / gimme love / just set me free. The epically named Clunge In A Barrel by Mike Skinner has got a beat thats hard not to move to.