Truly Dreadful Film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

The biggest problem with this show is that it tries WAY too hard to both funny and hip for the kids.Jack Whitehall is an okay actor, but he tries so hard to humiliate himself to get a cheap laugh. To be honest, some of his jokes work, others don't.The episode where he asks a farmer "Do all meerkats come from Russia?" is just so cringeworthy.The students are stereotypes that we have seen in other High School comedies. We have the gay kid, the smart Asian one, the slut, the tough kid and the wannabe rapper.The show also suffers from really annoying dubstep music, again trying too hard to be cool for the target audience. Also, the editing......... dear God, the EDITING! It looks like a child edited this. Jokes have to work because of the timing, but when you have sudden jump cuts between comedic scenes, it doesn't work.But the number one thing I hate about this show is Fraser.I HATE THIS CHARACTER WITH A PASSION!I get that the joke is that he tries too hard to be cool and fails everytime, but he is just not funny. You can't have a character suddenly shouting "REWIND!" and "TOP BANTER!" and expect it to be funny. Its like a child tugging at his or her's parents clothes and saying "Look at me!"This show is like Jack Whitehall's stand up; Only funny in small doses.

This was one of the last really popular sitcoms to be broadcast on BBC Three before it was shut down and taken online, I was really thankful that it was repeated before I missed out on the opportunity to watch it. Basically the series takes place at the fictional Abbey Grove School, in Watford or Tring, Hertfordshire, and it focuses on posh, newly graduated secondary school history teacher Alfie Wickers (Jack Whitehall, also writing). Alfie is a bigger kid than the kids he is teaching in Class K, his students include teacher's pet Joe Poulter (Ethan Lawrence), tough guy Mitchell Harper (Britain's Got Talent's Charlie Wernham), wheelchair-bound rude boy Leslie "Rem Dogg" Remmington (Jack Binstead), inappropriately flirtatious Chantelle Parsons (Nikki Runeckles), camp Stephen Carmichael (Layton Williams), the studious Jing Hua (Kae Alexander) and outwardly fiery Cleopatra Ofoedo (Weruche Opia). Throughout the series, the mismatched youngsters give him a hard time and take the mick, but often they can relate to them, banter with him, and become his good friends. Also throughout, Alfie is constantly trying to impress his crush, openly bisexual biology teacher Miss Rosie Gulliver (Sarah Solemani), trying to appear "cool", often his efforts turn into embarrassing situations or humiliation for himself, the students or the teaching staff. Alfie also has to contend with the the teaching staff, including eccentric headmaster Shaquille Banter "Simon" Fra$er (Mathew Horne), and meet the expectations of the deputy heads, including demanding dictator Isobel Pickwell (Michelle Gomez), ruthless yet cringe-worthy Professor Celia "Pro Green" Green (Samantha Spiro), and his own father, dramatically inappropriate Martin Wickers (Harry Enfield). Also starring Jack Bence Jack Bence as Grayson, James Fleet as Richard, David Bradley as Ennis, Roger Allam as Maurice Hewston, Lethal Bizzle as Rapper and Colin McFarlane as Politician. Whitehall gives a fantastic performance as "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system", the supporting cast members, young and old, all do great as well, Whitehall's writing is brilliant, all three series are both cringing and hilarious, it may have had the critics being negative towards it, but I found a very entertaining and funny comedy show. Very good!

If you haven't watched this then give any of the episodes a go. It is just pure entertainment, there is not supposed to be a point to any of it other than to make you laugh, (which it repeatedly succeeds in doing). It is slick, has fresh tight scripts moves along at a pace and you don't really need any prior knowledge of the characters to enjoy each episode fully. Don't expect the main protagonists to develop over time. This isn't one of these get to know the characters and feel empathy with them over a course of a series things. Ultimately comedy is about making you laugh and this one manages to do that with its absurd set-ups and excellent dialogue. Co-written by Jack Whitehall, he deserves credit for creating something which is very enjoyable.

I'll give this terrible education an 8; a score given almost entirely on the value of dialogue. In every concept this show is plainly, used, but the stereotypes stay fresh with a stream of static wit. Banter fights back and forth from start to finish. The character palette is too robust to ever stay looking at one color for long. Characters are stably defined, and growth among any of them is highly unlikely. But as they interact, the extreme envelopes them as you get to sit and watch these kids ride toward utter nothingness mislead by a teacher who seems to be skilled in absolutely nothing but responding to any situation, anywhere, instantly and in the worst way possible. I suggest checking it out if dialogue is your thing the British have been doing it a long time. ~Ideophobe