MOVIE REVIEW: Damo & Ivor: The Movie

The Irish sitcom comes to the big screen.Â Damo and Ivor are twins who were split up at birth, one to a well to do Dublin Family and the other to what you’d call the wrong side of the tracks.Â Now they have been reunited and live with Damo’s Grano. Damo is the more rough around the edges brother, and Ivor has had a more pampered life through the years.Â There is another brother out there, and Ivor is determined to find him and maybe even their absent Mother.

I don’t know a lot about this sitcom, it was never my type of story, I do remember the short skits that they first appeared in and remember also not liking them very much.Â So guess that they have enough of a following to warrant a movie.Â Honestly I didn’t laugh, and if you ask any Dublin Film Critic who usually laughs at the stupid comedies that we get to see I’ll be the one name that they say, I don’t mind having this, I like stupid comedies.Â Damo and Ivor has zero jokes that hit me as funny so I sat there stone faced for the entire running time, which is, thankfully short running time.

One scene where a friend of Damo’s is wearing Sunglasses, you can see the entire behind the scenes crew in the reflection, and some very suspect editing makes you wonder if anyone has seen this film before releasing it to the public.Â I will grant you that the lack of a budget is evident straight from the start, where the characters engage in a Fast and Furious style car race, which goes nowhere and adds nothing to the film.

I struggled giving this comedy a one out of five, I really wanted to give it a zero, but there are a few moments, which are not comedic that redeemed it.Â These moments show a heart that could have been explored more, I mean if you’re not going to make sure that at least 50% of the jokes work, then work on what you are getting right.Â That is where it gets the one.Â Performances are shockingly bad in some cases all the way up to normal bad, and a lot of Irish performers that should have known better, than to attach their talent to this project, but I guess a paycheck is a paycheck.Â I also didn’t know how well this film was going to travel, I doubt that anyone outside of Ireland is going to get it, but you know each to their own.

I would strongly endorse not going to see this film, I wouldn’t, under pain of death tell anyone to go see it.Â I don’t take that statement lightly.Â Usually if I don’t like a film I’ll know someone who will like it and understand completely that they spend their cinema cash on this.Â Here I can’t tell someone I know, even strangers, that this is worth their cash.Â I’m not going to keep bashing the film as flogging a dead horse seems only to be the hobby of those involved.Â I just can’t say that this one film is worth your time and resources.Â I’d rather keep watching The Young Offenders, and the TV show, which is truly a great Irish comedy.

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