One of the most annoiying and boring movie. I have ever watched the plot is just.ad Move barely bothers to disguise its pilferings from the DNA of other comedies. The self-sufficient neighbours are descended from the Goods of The Good Life. The grouchy shopkeeper who barks questions at an invisible husband out back is a straight lift from Little Britain. There are Tykeish traces of Last of the Summer Wine. The main joke of the recent sitcom This Country was that the countryside is a moral and intellectual cul-de-sac. But the show's main ancestor is Lead Balloon. Bad Move is Lead Balloon in wellies.
It's hard to tell yet whether Dee's grouchy web designer will be as good company as his perpetually thwarted writer in Lead Balloon, and whether rural Yorkshire's cast of supporting players can supply anything other than sketchy gargoyles. No one's exactly stretching themselves - Miles Jupp as the smug paterfamilias next door in particular feels like he's phoned one in he did earlier, and Seann Walsh as the overgrown rock star next door is a wild card with limited appeal.
At the moment it looks as if the script has sent away its knives for sharpening and not got them back yet. But Dee's miserablism is a gift that keeps on giving. "We can't even take the easy way out and slash our wrists," he concludes. Might have to see how this one pans out.