Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)

Excellent adaptation.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This is possibly one of the worst examples of culture man has ever produced. There is not a single redeeming feature about this tripe The acting is awful. The direction is pedestrian and awful. The screenplay is awful. Even beautiful Ireland looks awful. If you want to experience a cultural artifact that will make you despair of civilisation's achievements then this is it. Tony Hawks must have mortgaged and remortgaged his house to raise the funds for this as I cannot imagine a single penny being volunteered by anyone who is not currently brain dead and on life support. I see he has made another movie from one of his books. The man needs to be stopped from inflicting this utter, utter plop on the world

Honestly, I would give it a negative score if only it were possible.Marvel as an Englishman and his fridge travel around nondescript bits of English countryside that could very well be mistaken for nondescript bits of Irish countryside. Along the way he encounters other English people putting on Irish accents and acting the Paddy. Oh how we all laughed. Not since "Eastenders" went to Ireland have I seen something this terrible. It's that toxic mix of low-budget, low-imagination and low-intelligence.You could watch the paint dry for an hour or two instead if you were stuck for something to do. At least that would leave you feeling indifferent instead of mildly annoyed.Ed Byrne has a lot of explaining to do.

A hunch tells me that the script to 'Round Ireland With A Fridge must have been written amongst laughs, giggles and mass hilarity, probably by a couple - or more - of drunken TV writers, in a pub probably;RIWAF tells the story of a declining daytime TV star who chooses to go on a bet-inspired hitchhiking trip 'round Ireland dragging a small fridge, at first for no real reason except maybe to get away, then with the purpose of finding himself and tasting long lost freedom.Along the way he runs into a nice looking girl and then falls in love (yes, i know, you have seen it already).Besides the lame premise, the main character's voyage of discovery never really develops, and the meat of the story boils down to a bunch of rather not funny sketches. The love interest is visibly forced into the role, and the supporting characters are either badly acted (the radio DJ) or never developed properly (everyone else); being this ireland and him an englishman, you'd know there would be the pub scene where he comes in the pub and wants a quick pint hurriedly, with the old irish man telling him "we do things slowly here in ireland", later proving this to be a great bit of philosophical advice:yeah but no, they have that bit but he just walks back out of the pub. no revelation here. no character development. same for the truck driver. the hostel owner. the next hostel owner. the next next hostel owner. the guy in the street. the shop keepers. then as a stroke of genius the underplayed, understated, underscripted conclusion, and the lame ending that hints (yay!) at a romantic conclusion, for two characters we didn't really know even liked each other. and why.to be honest, i did laugh a couple times, but more because "its so bad" kind of way; in a way, the film isn't even just a collection of clichés, because these are used by filmmakers as their end result is known and good, even if obvious. this is just a guy travelling in a non-scenic part of ireland with nothing really happening, and small and i dare say underutilized clichés to bind the non consequential scenes together.take Apocalypse Now. remove the subplot about the colonel. take out the great lines such as "napalm in the morning", and the great scenes such as the choppers with the loudspeakers on the sides. tone down the action, make all the shots close, water down the ... aww, no, Apocalypse Now would still be better.such a shame, as the film was properly made (production, editing, music and so on), but there is just no real reason to watch it. it's not a comedy, its not a chick flick, its not even a beautiful glide through nature, its a half baked hour and half of nothing with some fat birds and ugly blokes being not any funnier than your mates are when you go down the pub.scene: not having changed one bit by his trekking adventure, the Man© tries to forget the love interest that doesn't interest him at all and land some bird. he goes on stage to show he's back being cool, but realizes the audience isn't going to like it. so he bounces a golf ball on a golf iron. and thus gets a free pint and then the pub characters whom he befriends are never seen again, he lands the bird but loses her right away, and also screws up a relation he didn't really have with bird n.2i'm not really sure what is enticing in this story. is it the fridge? is he on a journey of discovery? because if he is, he doesn't discover much of anything. does he get the girl? he doesn't, apparently, nor is he better/worse for it. does he have fun~? i didn't think so, and neither do we.right.. final vote 5/10 but i know some films worth 3/10 i'd rather watch.

So having just returned from the world premier of 'Round Ireland with a Fridge' I felt compelled to put the word out...What a fantastic film! People always say 'oh the film is never as good as the book' but in this case I would not agree. Obviously it differs from the book in certain parts, but it's a film and the book's a book so they are different forms of media (if you haven't read the book, you definitely should). The film has a really rounded-story feel to it, leaving you feeling as if you have seen a complete story which is rare nowadays as most people are hoping for a sequel! It was a warming film about a guy (who's nice in real life!), a bet with his mate and a fridge (an obvious must for a film about hitchhiking!) with loads of good gags in it. I can imagine the fun it would be to be in the room with Tony Hawks and Ed Bye as they write the jokes! During the credits you'll see that quite a lot of the lovely music throughout the film was actually done by Tony Hawks himself which is quite impressive and just goes to show how much personal effort has gone into the film, and it shows.It had a loads of good characters with a good general positive feel about all of them, beautiful scenery, good gags and a fridge! Lots of little jokes as well such as the 'Fridge D'Or production company' (shame on you if you don't get it) Well worth going out to the cinema to watch!Look out for Tony Hawks' other films, would be a shame to let good examples of books-being-done-well-as-films pass you by!Oh, why 9 out of 10 you cry? Well only because of one thing... People were laughing/talking over a nice little joke at the end of the credits (fridge related of course). Other than that, top film and perfect evening.