Low-key whimsy
The Honeymooners review
By
Savage from London, England
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19th April 2008
Shot on a budget that would disgrace a shoe-string, here's a commendable attempt to do something different with the rom-com formula. You still know that the boy and the girl are going to end up together at the end - as cutely as possible - but the journey is something different, taking us from middle-class Dublin to the Donegal coast (although it was actually shot in Antrim, since the makers could squeeze a few extra pence out of the Northern Irish film board). It all looks far too cold to be wearing what the poor cast do (let alone going for a dip in the sea), but the tale itself, of a relationship gradually thawing out, is diverting. There's nothing very remarkable here, and the fact that the budget couldn't stretch to a tripod on which to stand the camera is likely to put some audiences off (those disposed to sea-sickness, for instance), but it's amusing enough.
