Cemetery Junction (2010)

Excellent but underrated film

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

When I first watched this film I did not really feel as this was a masterpiece but it had a great spirit. It was a feel-good movie after the first watch and that was the reason why I watched it the second time. After thousands of seeing this film, I still feel like this was the perfect movie to show what it is like to be young, to be at the beginning of your very own life. You have to make decisions that will follow you all your life, so you really have to figure things out. And you also have to figure out who you really are. All the characters have to deal with a different problem, and the different stories reach a perfect conclusion together. Beside all these, it is not a heavy movie to watch either. You will laugh, and in the end you will think about what you have just seen. I never really had a favorite movie, but if I had to choose one, this would be my choice!

I liked this movie. I didn't quite live like these lads, but I had a few friends who were like them. It is such a realistic recreation of those times. Well done for this wonderful piece of nostalgia.Come to think of it, there are characters like those Snakes running the insurance industry who operate in other industries as well, today.Ricky Gervais plays the hard-working good Dad.I wonder why it didn't do well at the box office.Maybe people don't like to spend £10 on nostalgia.I watched it on TV few days ago. Just seeing the leisurely opening shots of hillside with music and the credits GERVAIS-MERCHANT PRODUCTION told me it would be worth watching. And it was

There is much to enjoy about this film, from its authentic early seventies look and feel, to the realistic dialogue of the period, and a script which is often a delight. It is much more than a romantic comedy, or a comedy drama, with its clever messages just as apt now as they were for the time the film personifies, and it is the inspired moments of direction by the writers which make it such a delight to watch.I haven't always enjoyed the Gervais/Merchant partnership in operation perhaps because the subject matter is often just too clever for its own good. But this glimpse of out of town Reading clearly demonstrates how good Gervais and Merchant can be when opening our eyes to familiar fare from a slightly different perspective and their own devilishly cunning way of expressing all our faults. We are treated to territory that is always embarrassingly close to us, regardless of era.The acting is classy from a very sure footed Christian Cooke as Freddie, an excellent Jack Doolan as Snork, a wonderfully expressive Felicity Jones as Julie, and all the support. I'd give each a mention were it not for the limited space. We are given a decent insight to each and every one of the characters on display and a chance to feel what they feel, and this is down to first class screenplay and direction.Cemetery Junction isn't a great film but it is certainly good enough to receive seven out of ten.

Clichés abound in "Cemetery Junction", a wholly generic "coming of age" movie, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, two big name comedians in Britain.Aside from several gross-out gags and moments of crude humour, the plot is pure formula, the audience watching as a group of friends attempt to escape the dreary confines of small town Britain. Of course, like "American Graffiti", the one kid who has his heart set on staying in town and getting a "proper job" (the film rightfully despises post 60s white collar Britain), ends up leaving and going on an "artistic adventure", whilst the bad boys and likable losers, all of whom previously looked ready to take on the world, remain stuck behind. If you've seen "American Graffiti", "The Education of Charlie Banks", "The Last Detail", "Scent of a Woman", "Bad Influence", "Starter For Ten", "The Wanderers" etc, you've already seen this movie. Ironic that most movies which advocate "non conformity", "sticking it to the man" and "being yourself" are so drearily formulaic.Still, Gervais and Merchant insert some good jokes here and there and the film is fast and slick enough to overcome its clichés. Like most films made in Britain, "Cemetery Junction" uses every trick it can to make England seem bright, sunny and cheery. Here we see Gervais and Merchant overusing colour correction and straining to shoot on sunny days. The film is ashamed of itself, trying to capture the more marketable, sun-kissed tone of LA.7/10 – Worth one viewing.