by pauloone1989 on 17 February 2007
14 out of 17 people found the following review useful:
'Kevin & Perry Go Large' is a really successful follow up to Enfield and Burke's original TV characters. There is always an ever present danger with feature length adaptations of TV shows, in that they'll not always transfer onto the big screen with quite the same clout (Think Family Guy).
BUT, K&P have done very well.
So maybe the content is crude, but quite frankly it's a perfect reflection of youth culture abroad (yet obviously within a slanted comedic context). People do go to such destinations as Ibiza, Malia, and Ayia Napa and they DO lose their moral code.
K&P is if not anything else, a depiction of REAL youth culture.
Whether it glorifies that culture or not is up for debate. I'd argue that it doesn't as I feel that Enfield's character rather pokes fun at the naivety of youth, and whilst I've been partial to my own dalliances in nutty behaviour, I can sense a critical undertone in the Kevin character.
The film is funny, and the plot is definitely good enough to keep you watching. As a pre-pubescent teen at the first time of watching, I found the film better then, than perhaps I would do now - but I know I could always whip out the DVD, watch it, and enjoy it time and again.
Enfield and Burke were obviously well versed in their roles, but as always too the Mum and Dad characters played by James Fleet and Louisa Rix, were fantastic. Their uppish standards and typical parental attitudes are thrown out the window in Ibiza, and the denigration of these standards not only shocks, but humours you too.
Eyeball Paul (Rhys Ifans) is a refreshingly crude character, and the relationship between him and the boys is one of the anchors of the flick. Typically Ifans plays the role with precision, taking any subtleties and throwing them straight out the window.
All in all, K&P is a good film, but perhaps nothing but. It's hard to tell whether it's supposed to be a no hold barred comedy, or a tongue in cheek critique on British society. Am I supposed to take the film seriously? Or not? For that reason, I've given it six out of ten.
KEVIN AND PERRY
by Robert Lough on 1 May 2000
11 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
I thought that this movie was quite funny. However some of the jokes are stretched out too far. The story sees Kevin and Perry (from the Harry Enfield and Chums sketch show) go to Ibiza with Kevins parents. I would recommend this film only if you are a fan of the Harry Enfield show, or you like gross humour. I give KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE a 7/10.
Great comedy to watch with your friends while drinking some beers.
by martymaster (martymaster@hotmail.com) on 23 July 2002
17 out of 29 people found the following review useful:
I had just been on vacation with some of my friends and we had been out clubbing every night.So we really had the feel for this movie.We also like this kind of humor.The soundtrack in the movie is great and Kevin and Perry is just hilarious.They are so stupid that it is cool.
Only appeals to certain audiences
by michael-mcghee3 on 3 March 2008
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Anyone who grew up in the nineties or early millennium will easily enjoy this. Not quite a great film, but an enjoyable enough storyline, topped off with a lot of funnies and a great soundtrack.
Also anyone who didn't grow up in the era of dance/rave music then I would say you are wasting your time watching this film, as the best thing about it is that a lot of teenagers/young adults can relate to it.
Lets be honest people in their forties or fifties aren't going to listen to Rave Music and go on a holiday to Ibiza to find some sex, pop pills and attend raves.
I would also say anyone who enjoyed the Kevin and Perry sketches in the Harry Enfield programmes should find this interesting also as the film tops any sketch ever featured on the TV programme.
Not a masterpiece, but if you are British, quiet entertaining.
by alicante22 on 21 October 2007
6 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
I like the film, I gave it a 7, I even use a quote as my signature ("all I wanna do is do it") but I can see that it is not an amazing film, but it does what it says on the tin: its a Harry Enfield comedy - so its a puerile, toilet humour driven extended comic sketch. But it does have an awesome soundtrack, and does chronicle, in a comical way, the rights of passage for a British teenager from the late 90's and the traditional image of holiday with your parents in THE place to be at the time - ibiza.
I was a teenager in the 90's, I loved and still love dance music, I went to ibiza many times and now even live here, and I, like millions of other brits at the time, was a fan of Harry Enfields comedy. So for those reasons, this was more than a reasonable evenings entertainment. If you are looking for a masterpiece of comedy, then Anchorman is a good place to start, so too is The Office. Don't look in the direction of this film unless you know what you are going to get in advance - Lowest common denominator humour that pulls no punches and loves what it is. Enjoy!
Expect too much, or lack the cultural indoctrination? SPOILERS!!!
by ETCmodel02 (e@ianchristy.com) on 24 October 2002
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!!
Ah, another fine boys trying to get their first shags under their belts while simultaneously conquering the Ibiza DJ universe comedy. Although wanders around a bit, it has tons of great gags, the mega-huge inflating winkies in the trousers were a huge hit as a recurrent gag, the explosive zits Tetsuo: Iron Man style and the rest of the femme grooming sequence a total joyous gross out, DJ Eyeball Paul's antics and lingo banging, lotsa coastal clubbing eye candy and the beats throughout were ab fab fly. So the real question is whether I would have expected too much, or lacked the cultural indoctrination being American and never having heard of the show this is derived from? Perhaps, but never have I seen Germans teased as such, seldom see a new twist on a winkie gag (that's saying a lot by itself) and appreciated the very quick gesture conveying Eyeball Paul's ill intention that belys a deft grasp of the physical humor many hammer you over the head with it American comedies lack. True, American Pie is better wholistically. True, I'd rather have seen the full troupe from the TV show in the film because if a measley 2 can carry a show, I can only imagine what a hoot a dozen plus would have been. So I give it an average score, because it's a good place to start and I can only hope for more and better.
A good laugh
by kam-wing pang (kamwingpang@hotmail.com) on 24 October 2000
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
This film was a good laugh. Really enjoyed Harry Enfield's TV show, so it was good to see it cross over to film.
Shame that they didn't bring out more of the characters from the show. Should have had more of Paul Whitehouse... he was hilarious as the bouncer!
The bit in the bedroom with his erection was side splittingly funny...
Nice for an afternoon's mindless fun...
Classic
by adrianben7 on 8 May 2012
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
I loved this film when it first came out especially as it basically portrayed the whole Ibiza\dance music scene at the time. It actually inspired us lads to book up the following year and have great time. If you were a teenager who liked dance music and\or went to Ibiza in the early 2000s then you will at least appreciate the awesome music and feel like going out after seeing the club scenes. Kevin and Perry Go Large basically takes the mick out of the whole Ibiza\Club\brit abroad type thing by portraying stereotypical teenagers, DJs and even Germans. This film is typical Harry Enfield humor, just an extended sketch from the TV series really, so again if you don't think he is funny then don't watch it.
funny, fun
by bigdaddydave on 22 October 2002
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
People take this film WAY too seriously!
Honestly, did you go into it thinking it was going to be high brow humour? no, it was going to be jokes about shagging!
I do think i have a developed sence of humour and very rarely laugh at feature films, (especially from across the pond) but this was funny all the way through, and there were 2 or 3 jokes that had me in stiches.  (the bank robbery!!)
Go and watch it, it is funny.  It is not Shakespear.
Cheesy film but I like it
by bennlanglands on 19 May 2006
4 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Kevin & Perry go large (well they certainly do in this film). The way Kathy Burke & Harry Enfield act as teenagers as if it is quite lifelike, i think she does a better job and she does put on a good masculine voice (at times). The D.J played by Rhys Ifans is i suppose your typical D.J, thinking he is the dogs ******** and is a nasty *******, and he plays it extremely well top marks Rhys. Laura Fraser and Tabitha Wady, Whos the better actor? Id have to say laura she seems more comfortable in front of a camera than Tabitha (sorry Tabitha). The one scene that we all know about is when they decide to clean up, doesn't it make you cringe? (I hope girls in real life don't look like that lol). O.K some people may say its a bad film but they're more than likely comparing to those big blockbusters e.g lord of the rings. But in its own right its a great film if you ask me. The music in the film is your typical Ibiza music and i like that sort of stuff. The funniest scene would have to be when Kev and Pel are with Mr and Mrs Patterson in the restaurant and Pel gets a "banana" because Mrs Patterson is speaking Spanish. The worst scene (thats easy) Where they exit the airport and Pel says "Kev look the girls of our dreams" oh dear how bad that was. All in all great film.