D' Mrs. Brown's Boys Movie (2014)

If you are, like me, a great fan of the TV series, I would advise giving this movie a wide berth. Any funny gags are predictable and very few and far between. Some of the plot lines are poor to the point of embarrassment. This has proved, once again, that British comedy rarely transfers well to the big screen. The opening song and dance routine and the closing, vomit inducing, court room speech are just not what Mrs Brown's Boys is about. The scenes involving the blind ninjas are extremely clumsily directed and executed and O'Carroll's caricature of the leader of the ninjas is, to be quite honest, nothing short of crude and offensive. I hope they abandon any attempts to make further movies and try to resurrect the hilarious TV series in its true form before a live audience.

Fmovies: Now, I LOVE Mrs Brown on TV, I think she is a classic TV creation and I love the way the action moves and never let's you forget they are filming it live, including the out takes as they happen. Where as most sitcom-movie transfers are usually really bad ( so many to name but recently Keith Lemon and Harry Hill) some manage it (the Inbetweeners, Alan Partridge) and I hoped that using that same TV savvy,, it may be OK.. To be fair it starts OK with a nice musical number getting everything set up.. But that's pretty much the end. The story tries to be serious, tries to be about 'home' and 'change' and 'acceptance ' but ends up not saying much at all.. It's a little bit racist if anything. The TV version has 25 minutes to pack in as many gags as it can.. This movie packs in the same amount of gags in 100 minutes.. I was bored. It also seemed they had sidelined a lot of the lead characters and most of them ended up with little or no dialogue at all. The other thing missing was the trick of the TV ,, the filmed and repeated miss-step. There are a couple in the movie,, but not enough and as usual the gag reel in the credits was funnier than the film. We also miss the live laughter track with a lot of the jokes not giving Mrs Brown her time to react. Shame.. But I suppose it's what I should have expected.. It's hard to break tradition.

I am a massive fan of the TV series and was really excited to hear that a movie was being made. It had some highlights but overall it was major disappointment. Sadly, much of the humour was very unoriginal or very dated (reminded me of Les Dawson) or low brow stereotyping of the Chinese and Russians that was so bad I actually cringed rather than laughed. There is something wrong when the funniest bit was the outtakes shown during the final titles.

I also found the sound track to be a bit over the top.

Guys you are better than this movie, the TV show proves this - maybe the formula simply does not port well to movies.

D' Mrs. Brown's Boys Movie fmovies. Well... Were do I start?! £19.80 was the cost of 2 tickets and I can safely say that it was stolen from me! I almost called the police today after walking out 60 minutes in.

Me and my mum especially are fans of the TV show like everyone's saying here on IMDb, but I can safely tell you reading this that we are far from a fan of this movie!

The story line is awful, the jokes are even worse (that's if you can call them jokes at all). The acting is ropey at best, in fact for some reason the acting is far far worse than the TV series, it's like they've been replaced by robot versions whilst the actual actors have gone on holiday.

This is simply a cash in on the Mrs Brown success from over the years! Whatever you do DO NOT GO AND SEE THIS MOVIE! Save your money and use the £20 for something far more amusing like buying £20's worth of apples!

I have enjoyed the TV Show & live DVD's so I am not reviewing this as a hater of the Mrs. Brown's Boys Franchise. I didn't see it in the cinema but just bought the DVD to satisfy my curiosity. What I witnessed was one of the worse attempts at a movie I have ever seen. It is unfunny & an attempt at a plot to carry this for an hour and a half is invisible. Even the reusing of old jokes which has been Brendan O'Carrolls trademark for years couldn't lift this off the bottom of the septic tank it sits in. Brendan himself is very sharp & very funny as a comedian & in a live situation is hilarious. But he obviously wrote down all the jokes he heard in school & dusts them off oh too often. Only his sister Eilish who plays Winnie can claim she put in a decent shift in this. Delivery of the weak punchlines was slow & poor throughout & mistaking a Pakistani man for a Jamaican might be slightly funny the first time. Blind Ninjas & O'Carrolls attempt at what I assume was a Chinese man were embarrassing. We pretended to be Chinamen in school Brendan... snap out of it! Brendan O'Carroll has taken this recycling thing too far & whoever said in the trailer that 'it's the funniest film this year' was either well paid or has only seen one film this year! Avoid the movie but watch the live show.

Exactly what I had expected, a snapshot of a Dublin community, difficult task portraying it to such a wide fan base. Great pictures of Dublin, shown off in all its beauty, underneath the comedy a real subject is being dealt with the developers have spent many years trying to close it down, yet markets like it thrive in city's allover the world. As always there is no hidden meaning and no punches pulled. To those who complain about the language, do you walk around Dublin ? This is reality in the areas portrayed. As for those who say some of it is over the top ? The cinema is the place for over the top ! This is about Dublin shot in Dublin with Dublin people, not a set in Pinewood or Hollywood. A comedy played for laughs and succeeds. Well done Brendan I would not expect less.