I think that film it's not funny as most comments on IMDb said. The movie aims to be a sort of Amelie, but remains in a failed attempt to create an aesthetic kind Michael Gondry (cheap sets, much cardboard painting with pen and funny cartoons that here are not), about an agoraphobic and his memories before to be. The actors are not funny, the story has no interest and also the script is silly and without any sense of humor. All the work of all that digital retouching, pretending not to be, is crass and without wit, all the aesthetic of the movie is so distasteful that makes you want to wake up because this world seems more an unpleasant nightmare than a dream.

Plot: Two friends take a road trip through Europe.Thank God the UK Film Council was abolished, considering it was funding such repulsive tripe as this. The film is a self-indulgent mess that confuses quirkiness for humour. The jokes are uniformly terrible, the nadir being a sideways shot of a flaccid penis that is supposed to provoke laughter. The lead is a perpetual adolescent, a whining bore who won't stop sulking about his failure at life. I wanted nothing more than to reach into the screen, slap him and tell him to pull himself together and stop being such an infernal wuss. That the script seeks every opportunity to degrade and humiliate him provides no emotional sympathy, whilst revealing a deeply unpleasant streak in the film makers. The plot is predictable and the 'wacky' characters tiresome - with quirkiness used to try and disguise the lack of depth to both. There are one or two visually interesting moments using the home-made arts and crafts aesthetic dear to hipsters but it never matches the wild abandon of 'The Mighty Boosh', which is its clear influence.Worth no viewings.

What makes this film absolutely sublime is the lingering melancholy - faint yet stubbornly persistent - ubiquitous through all the quirky, surreal, and comical sequences. It's never self-indulgent or over-sentimental. All elements, be it emotions, performances, sets, character development, or animation, are well-controlled and contained as a proper English would have it; yet it's radical, outrageous, bold, and sometimes uncomfortably daring. Elegance rises through vulgarity, and (almost unbearable) sadness screams silently. This film is unique, delightful, touching, funny, and yes, wicked. It's not Boosh but fans or otherwise shall be pleasantly surprised.

Probably one of the most anticipated movies of the year for me. The trailer really didn't do the movie justice. The story is essentially an adventure/drama (with a few comedy touches) but there's no denying that it's marginally darker than pretty much anything from the Mighty Boosh (if that's what you're expecting). The movie's visuals have pretty much been mentioned in every review, and they're are a very important part of the movie: fantastical, naive, fairytale-like, psychedelic. The movie never really lapses into reality for longer than a few minutes, which really plays into King's style of directing. The lead characters are really charming and believable, but the writing, especially the dialog was really lacking. It's almost impossible not to compare King's writing to Barrat/Fielding's because of the nature of the film and many characters being played by the cast of the show and it really doesn't compare in my opinion. However it's still a really touching and enjoyable film that has some of the most inventive visuals I have ever seen.