not horrible nor great

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This film is a classic case of a director at work who does not know how to direct. Dialogue awful. Acting poor. Plot ridiculous. A comedy requires humour and timing, both of which were sorely lacking. Too many scenes were simply too long. The plot line was absurd with reputable actors struggling to deliver awful dialogue, failing to make it convincing. A complete waste of almost two hours of my life. I can only advise: do not consider for a moment that this awful excuse for entertainment is worth watching... it is not!

Set in London after the 2007 banking crisis. Papadopoulos & Sons is a story about Harry (Stephen Dillane) who is of Greek origins, he started with the family chip shop business and went on to become an entrepreneur who is embarking to build a shopping mall and up to his eyeballs in debt. These loans are recalled after the banking fiasco.Harry and his children who have grown up enjoying the good life are back to their dad's roots and urban London. The only asset Harry has to his name is the run down chip shop he owned with his estranged brother Spiros (Georges Corraface.) Harry wants to sell the building to earn some cash, Spiros wants to renovate and re-open the chippy.Harry is reluctant, he wants to get back on his feet and salvage with his bankers what he can of his companies. Spiros wants to re- engage his brother as to the importance of life values, going back to that pioneering spirit and togetherness when they were young. As Harry became successful, Spiros life went off the rails.This is a feel good but bittersweet comedy about a family falling down from the top and making their way back. Harry's children realise with the help of Uncle Spiros that their is some worth in starting out again from the bottom but this is a lesson that Harry has little interest in learning.There is a side plot of outside investors which might come to Harry's rescue, a divorced banker who fancies Harry and a rival Turkish kebab shop owner whose son starts to go out with Harry's daughter.This is a small scale film, low budget and also a slim story but you sense the actors are putting all their efforts into the project to make it succeed.

Utterly dire, the worst type of contemporary British film - was this Lottery-funded, I wonder? Allegedly a comedy drama it is neither funny nor dramatic - the sort of piece they used to call 'heart-warming' for want of anything else positive to say.Dillane is catastrophically miscast - about as Greek as an Asda moussaka. Not the most inspiring screen actor at the best of times, for the first half he stands around looking stunned-to-blankly moody, saying little and little apparently going on inside either. But that's better than when he does finally start saying something - so bland he seems to have suffered a stroke. The script, the direction, the editing unutterably clichéd, unimaginative, predictable and SLOOOOOW - and I *love* slow when the slowness lets you watch interesting things going on. No such luck here.The most unbelievable brothers since Schwarzenegger and DeVito in 1988 - but this time it's not meant to be a joke. And finally the traditional British film failing: some really embarrassing supporting turns which should have been ruthlessly excised - the guy playing Lars, the Scandinavian money man, gets my award for the worst foreign accent of the decade...nearer German, if anything, but like one in a bad war film of the 1950s. The only Greekness I detected anywhere was in the music, but even that relentlessly trying to tell us what we should be feeling and when (the script and action having failed to do so) - sad, hopeful, joyful, sad again (and again and again)...and finally triumphant and (you've guessed it) heart-warming.At one point a character (Dillane? I forget) says, "This doesn't feel right" - the most truthful line in the movie, I'm afraid.

After following the film's journey via twitter, right the way through to the cinema release, I finally saw this when it was released in London with family and friends.I had been anticipating seeing this film before it even finished filming. It most definitely lived up to my expectations! Papa&Sons is such a sweet, funny movie with a fantastic cast! Great feel good film, I laughed, I cried, I laughed again and left the cinema with a big smile on my face really well written and made. Definitely something I'd watch again and again and AGAIN!! Look forward to watching it with my Greek Cypriot parents next time they are in the UK as it's soon out on DVD whoo-hoo! Great job Marcus Markou and one up for the independent film maker!!!!!