{"id":319227,"date":"2011-03-18T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/submarine-an-eccentric-british-romcom-with-an-original-edge\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T08:37:03","slug":"submarine-an-eccentric-british-romcom-with-an-original-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/submarine-an-eccentric-british-romcom-with-an-original-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Submarine: An eccentric British romcom with an original edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"86.8781725888\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 8:37 AM on 18th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: <span>Offbeat British comedy<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Submarine: An eccentric British romcom with an original edge\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-03-18T08:31+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/26143e5bg_showbiz_3.gif.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"3 Star Rating\" title=\"3 out of 5\" \/><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Submarine is another British romcom, and it\u2019s both more adventurous<br \/>\nand less commercial: a self-consciously quirky rites-of-passage comedy<br \/>\nabout a pale, gloomy 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy (Craig Roberts) trying<br \/>\nto lose his virginity with his comically unromantic girlfriend (Yasmin<br \/>\nPaige), who\u2019s bad-tempered and suffers from eczema.<\/p>\n<p>At the same<br \/>\ntime, he\u2019s attempting to help his depressed dad (Noah Taylor) \u2014 yes,<br \/>\nthat\u2019s the second depressed dad of the week \u2014 to rescue his<br \/>\nnone-too-bright wife (Sally Hawkins) from the clutches of their<br \/>\npreposterous New Age guru neighbour. <\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4ad41a5d677_468x286.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Original: Submarine, starring Craig Roberts, is sure to attract a cult following\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original: Submarine, starring Craig Roberts, is sure to attract a cult following<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this uncharacteristically<br \/>\nbroad comic role, Paddy Considine boasts a terrifying mullet that must<br \/>\nrank as the screen\u2019s scariest hairstyle since Javier Bardem\u2019s barnet in<br \/>\nNo Country For Old Men.<\/p>\n<p>First-time writer-director Richard Ayoade is a talent to watch, and his film is always amiable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our<br \/>\nschoolboy hero is endearingly awkward, not unlike the hero of Bill<br \/>\nForsyth\u2019s Gregory\u2019s Girl, and as engagingly pretentious as Sue<br \/>\nTownsend\u2019s Adrian Mole.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are many moments when the<br \/>\nplot meanders, and a few when it grinds to a halt. The style \u2014 indebted<br \/>\nto Rohmer, Truffaut and early Godard \u2014 isn\u2019t truly reflective of a<br \/>\nmodern 15-year-old boy\u2019s culture, even if he is supposedly addicted to<br \/>\nthe chansons of Serge Gainsbourg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The happy ending also feels too conventionally art-house: it\u2019s a dead ringer for Truffaut\u2019s 400 Blows.<\/p>\n<p>Because<br \/>\nSubmarine seems geared more towards middle-aged film critics than real<br \/>\nteenagers and fails to deliver fully on its comic potential, it probably<br \/>\nwon\u2019t be a mainstream hit; but it will deserve a cult following as an<br \/>\nartier, British equivalent to 500 Days Of Summer \u2014 an eccentric romcom<br \/>\nwith an original edge. <\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/4ad41a5d677_468x286.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-1367492\/Submarine-An-eccentric-British-romcom-original-edge.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Submarine: An eccentric British romcom with an original edge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submarine: An eccentric British romcom with an original edge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 8:37 AM on 18th March 2011 Verdict: Offbeat British comedy Rating: Submarine is another British romcom, and it\u2019s both more adventurous and less commercial: a self-consciously quirky rites-of-passage comedy about a pale, gloomy 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy (Craig Roberts) trying to lose his virginity with his comically unromantic girlfriend (Yasmin Paige), who\u2019s bad-tempered and suffers from eczema. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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