Okay-this is definitely trying to parade around as an English Bueller... but the thing is, is that the book is terrific, and if they just stayed on track using what was there it would've been a lot better. Amis must've gotten huge pay dirt to okay the screenplay and help write it.
My suggestion- go buy the book, or take the book out from your local library and have a good read. Charles Highway is an irritating character but still quite lovable and the movie does him, nor Rachel (who is actually supposed to be English) no justice.
Martin Amis is a talented author, especially in the area of humour, and this movie does not allow for that natural laugh to come through. In many areas it seems like a low rent British "Fast Times" with the characters rolling around on the ground in lousy sex scenes and then stumbling through lines of dialogue as if they had just gotten the script that morning. It is too bad Amis let whatever it is that got in the way of a good film, get in the way of a good film.
My suggestion- go buy the book, or take the book out from your local library and have a good read. Charles Highway is an irritating character but still quite lovable and the movie does him, nor Rachel (who is actually supposed to be English) no justice.
Martin Amis is a talented author, especially in the area of humour, and this movie does not allow for that natural laugh to come through. In many areas it seems like a low rent British "Fast Times" with the characters rolling around on the ground in lousy sex scenes and then stumbling through lines of dialogue as if they had just gotten the script that morning. It is too bad Amis let whatever it is that got in the way of a good film, get in the way of a good film.