I love this movie so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

From great phrases to great characters. Gavin and Stacey has it all. The characters are all unique and have a story. The first episode, starts by the two main characters, Gavin Shipman ( Mathew Horne) Stacey West ( Joanna Page) talking on the phone at work, the characters are meeting up in London, after their relationship has blossomed online. They meet and the characters instantly bond. By the second episode, Gavin has proposed. To which Stacey's widowed mother Gwen and uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) aren't to pleased about, has Stacey has been engaged 5 times before!. On the other hand, Gavin's parents Pam Shipman ( Alison Steadman) and Mick Shipman (Larry Lamb) are really happy about and plan to meet Stacey's family. With laughs love and excitement, Gavin and Stacey is the perfect programme to watch and is suitable for all.

I bought the complete series of Gavin & Stacey in a box-set and could not stop watching it even though I wanted to delay watching the third and final season as it would mean that my viewing pleasure would be shortened.Gavin & Stacey is a story centred on 2 individuals, their family and friends. It has a very simple storyline showing how the characters relate to one another in their ordinary day to day lives.The romance between Gavin & Stacey aside, what I loved about the series is the friendship between Gavin & Smithy and Stacey and Vanessa. It is easy to identify with how the separate pairs of besties relate to each other and remain besties throughout the series despite their changing circumstances, like Gavin & Stacey getting married and each having to leave their hometowns and their besties at different points in the series.I particularly liked how Vanesssa (played by Ruth Jones) is so tough and yet vulnerable. Vanessa also makes makes some very terse remarks in her Welsh tongue which cracked me up. I love the soundtrack, and how the characters relate through music (music by New Order, for one).All the actors hold their own and both scriptwriters Ruth Jones and James Corden deserve the all accolades they have received for this series.

I had to stop watching this after the 3rd episode of the first series, I was cringing throughout at the poor acting, unnecessary over enunciation of the welsh accent and all things welsh and the unrealistic scenes, ( armed police about to fire on gavin for jumping over a ticket barrier). This tries hard and if I was very simple or very easily pleased, I guess i would find it funny but this was embarrassing to watch. Maybe the reason for the lame writing is because the two writers were two of the central characters here (james corden was especially hamming up his lines), either way it was a waste of Alison Steadman's considerable talents.

In the 1980s, the most famous hit of writer John Sullivan was 'Only Fools and Horses', but what actually won bigger ratings was a gentler comedy drama he wrote about two people falling in love, 'Just Good Friends'. And in some ways, 'Gavin and Stacey', a low key hit, is the 'Just Good Friends' of our time. At initial acquaintance, it's not riotously funny, and it's certainly not savage (unlike 'Pulling', another BBC3 hit); but the more you watch it, the more you find yourself smiling throughout, simply because the world it depicts is unquestionably the real world: this, in a way that few other television programs are, is a story of contemporary life. The central role of Gavin is quite passive and non-comic: the other characters are one-part sitcom staple, one part modern cliché, but still original - the mix works, supporting by acting and direction which overplays nothing and stays true to the rhythms of the everyday. As such, it's a record for the historians of the future to judge our age by; but very much also a comedy for us to laugh at now.