In the Loop Reviews

Very funny political satire

If you are a fan of political comedy, you will really enjoy this film and I must confess to not having seen the TV series it is spun off from, The Thick of It. This film has a good cast which demonstrates the political complexities and how a few miss timed words can hilariously de-rail the opposition to proposals. The plot could be conceived to be dangerously close to real life political events, which makes the way the arrive at the outcome truely scary!

The No.10 character does use some offensive language, but it will always make you laugh - especially when used on the Americans! Brilliantly thrown into the mix are constituency matters which all MPs have -with Steve Coogan at his best - and I felt it was a cocktail for a very good film. Enjoy!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Entertainment for the pretentious...

If you're a 'modern' person who works in government, or a kind of 'Jeremy Paxman' type git, this is for you. Quick fire political shenanigans with four hundred swear words a minute. Actually, it's just crap.

Boring

Got bored, switched it off, don't bother unless you into politics!

[Highly rated reviewer]

poor

Was expecting a comedy but didn't make me laugh once in the 45 mins I endured.Just putting the 'f' word into every sentence dosn't make it funny.

[Highly rated reviewer]

In The Loop

Don’t expect West Wing standards here. This isn’t so smart, and doesn’t try, with an array of inept and bumbling politicians, looking out only for themselves, this is only a caricature of real life isn’t it? Despite the gratuitously offensive language, this is very funny, with many laugh out loud moments. And there lies the problem, these people couldn’t take two countries to a needless war could they, and why are we laughing?

[Highly rated reviewer]

Original and hilarious

There are films you have to see at the cinema and this is one of those. You are in stitches from beginning to end. A fantastic satire that destroys any chance of American cinema goers stereotyping the British as Hugh Grant. Fantastic.

Very Bad

One of the worst films I have seen. Easy to lose interest. Just real bad.

[Highly rated reviewer]

The smell of a pissed seaside donkey this is not

If you watched the TV series then a lot of the actors in this film will be familiar and the pace and language won't come as too much of a shock. It's sharp, witty and pacey in style with the most creative swearing I've heard in a long time (well since South Park the movie if I'm honest).

It's easy to see this as merely a movie version of the TV show, but In the Loop stands on its own as a very clever version of real life events from the recent past. If even half of this is true it's terrifying and from reading interviews with Armando Ianucci I suspect that more than half of it is.

Peter Capaldi steals the movie, with Tom Hollander a close second as the incompetent minister from DfID. If you watch this and don't find it funny maybe stick with JCVD movies instead.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Excelllent

This film was great. It's adapted from the political satire TV series 'The Thick of It' with most of the same cast although only 2 of the original cast play the same role in the movie. One of those characters is one of my favourite characters ever to grace a TV screen, Malcolm Tucker. Man, this guy is amazing. Every time he opens his mouth I find it funny, even though every time he does he's volleying a torrent of abuse at someone but he does it with such aplomb you have to admire it. He's got swearing down to a fine art and it's an amazing job from Peter Capaldi, I really could watch him all day long.

The story is all about government spin and different government officials trying to get their own way on the subject of war and one slightly insignificant minister being thrust into the spotlight. Some really funny situations arise, some of which seem absurd but can't be too far off what actually happens behind the scenes in government.

So, it was a great laugh.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Very disappointing for a top chart

This film looked good in the review but they must have choosen all the best parts out of the film. Very disappionting - Got very boring within the first ten minutes, the story line is very hard to pick out, acting is very dull. The only thing which I think makes people laugh is all the swearing, but even that gets very repetitive after a while.

All in all, a very disappointing film, would have expected better!!