Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

hyped garbage

From my favorite movies..

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

This is the ultimate spoof of life. The acting is just out-of-this-world, and the writing wonderfully takes our preconceptions of 'normality' and puts them through a magic mushroom blender. Growing up in England is a very confusing thing. As is portrayed perfectly in the show, there is a strange social normality within which people talk and interact with one another. Big Train takes that casual, chatty 'everything's normal' atmosphere, and injects a little quantum mechanics into it. But it's not just British culture getting splurged, Big Train takes any situation that upon slightly closer inspection is just plain weird. Super villains, the over-the-top dramatic stylings of American movies and sports events all get torn to shreds, and given a chelsea smile. If you've ever felt there was something grossly abnormal about normality, then this show will open the front door, take your shoes off, get you a cuppa, and make you feel right at home.

One of the funniest British sketch shows I have ever seen. Vastly misunderstood by a lot of people. In my opinion it's truly hilarious and I've shown it to a lot of my friends, who have absolutely loved it.The 'Jockeys in the Wild' sketch is one of the most hilarious, brilliant sketches I have ever seen, same goes with a lot of Big Train sketches.I can understand why some people just don't 'get it' but what I would suggest is don't watch it expecting too much. Just watch it expecting a funny, British comedy and that is what you will get. I'd say it's something of a 'cult comedy' and with most cult shows or films the people who do love it, really, really love it. And there's a reason for this kind of appreciation, it's because it's marvellous! I'd highly recommend this to anyone who likes the shows Mighty Boosh, any Simon Pegg comedy, Peep Show, Little Britain. A great British treat.

I'm surprised to see the largely negative response to this programme.I think it's one of the best Pythonesque shows that has emerged. I watched it religiously and was hyperventilating with laughter.There are so many classic skits: Ming the Merciless hanging around his house and singing along with the telly tubbies, A Cat and a mouse having a fight after a night at the pub, show jumpers wanting to be fire fighters and, of course, the staring competition grand finals. What made the sketches so appealing was the immense absurdity of the whole thing, yet the amazing cast was able to ground it in some reality.These great actors have since emerged in shows like "Spaced" and "How do you want me?". That's an indication of what level they were at.The best show of its kind in decades. It buries "The Fast Show".

As much as I like the Fast Show for it's homelyness, many of the charachters and sketches become to predictable, repetitive and sometimes are forced to reach that 'hilarious' catchline.Big Train is the solution. Many original sketches sometimes never repeated. Show Jumpers obsessed with being fireman? and people say this isn't original?As for the World Stare Out Champs with Barry Davis and the summarisers, just superb. More of this please!