Staggered Details

Martin Clunes's debut as actor/director is packed with neat cameos, tasty situations and well-timed gags. Yet, like the 1992 British road movie Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, it suffers from the cinematic equivalent of long stretches of motorway without a service station. Deposited on a Scottish island after his riotous stag night by a best man with designs on his bride, Clunes has to thumb his way across the country to make it to the church on time. There's a wonderful sequence involving Griff Rhys Jones, and Clunes makes an amiable travelling companion, but the comedy is, occasionally, rather ridiculous.

Sporadically amusing, episodic movie that has its moments; it often borders on the obvious, but the acting and direction display a good sense of comic timing.