The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Good English comedy-drama. Light, whimsical, subtle and understated - i.e. a typical good English comedy-drama! Decent, mostly character-driven plot, though threatens to unravel near the end.Solid performance by the stunningly beautiful Gemma Arterton in the lead role. Well supported by Luke Evans, Roger Allam, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Greig. Despite all these good performances, the show is stolen by 18-year old Jessica Barden. Her over-the-top, kooky, intense performance as the seemingly-deranged schoolgirl Jody is screamingly funny, and keeps the movie moving.

I usually like English movies but this was the worst drivel. I hated this movie. The 15 year old girl Jody is one of the most pathetic and dare I say hateful characters I have ever seen.The guidelines for this site say I am suppose to write ten lines of text for this review. But I already feel like I have wasted too much of my life on this. I WANT THAT TIME BACK. I'm sure there is an audience for this film but I would not want to know the people who would find this film interesting. As an American I realize that English movies are perhaps an acquired taste. I happen to like a lot of English films but this one I despised.

If you liked the Tamara Drewe serialisation in the Guardian or bought the graphic novel or are just a fan of Posy Simmonds, prepare to be disappointed.In the first place, the film is the original work forced into the straitjacket of "comedy". This means the original ending has been totally re-written, since teenage girls dying of solvent abuse isn't something that could be played for laughs, not to mention the possibility of messing up the certification. It also means some characters are made into clownish caricatures, principally supposed indie drummer Ben Sergeant whom Dominic Cooper plays as some ridiculous greaseball rock-n-roller so that we might believe the writers' last experience of popular music was going to see David Essex in That'll Be The Day in 1973. Barden and Christie also overplay the teenage awkwardness of Jody and Casey to the extent that Charlotte Christie at times seems to lumber about like Frankenstein's Igor, which leads to the second problem: mis-casting.Gemma Arterton is pretty. Luke Evans is good, Bill Camp is good, the others are all wrong. See above for Dominic Cooper. Tamsin Greig is too hot to be frumpy fifty-something Beth but Roger Allam not hot enough to be her philandering husband: he has a face that says "Harrumph" and its hard to believe a queue of younger women are waiting to bed him. Bronagh Gallagher is added as another clown whose Ian Paisley voice doesn't work among the up themselves novelists.The film is a bimbo. It's not so bad if you want a few giggles with darling scenery, screwball characters and a pretty actress who looks nice with not much on, but if you actually want an adaptation, stay away.

The idyllic monotony of a Dorset village is disrupted by the return of Tamara, sporting a re-modelled nose, but unreformed distaste for her home town. Her presence revives long-buried passions for handyman Andy, and minted author of "airport fodder" Nicholas, as well as sparking new intrigue for various other inhabitants of the village, including a blocked American writer, and two bored schoolgirls.So who is the film about? Everybody and nobody: don't be mislead by the title into thinking that Tamara will drive the narrative. She is more 'done to' than 'doing', and that is one of the film's main failings - quite why anyone is doing what they are doing remains a mystery, most of all Tamara. She resists the obvious attraction to Andy in favour of a soiled, sneering, effete drummer, and then tops that in the disgust stakes by shacking up with the repugnant chinny Nicholas. The lack of character development means this fails to function as a drama, and it was not till after the film was over and I took a look at the DVD case that I realised they are pushing this as a 'comedy.' I didn't laugh once.The acting is fairly good and Dorset looks nice. The drummer, two schoolgirls, Nicholas and weekend crime novelists are annoying. Andy and Tamara lack depth and never change. Wife Beth and the American writer have some intrigue to them, but their particular romantic tale gets lost in the rest of the twee village rambunctiousness. This story might function well as a village hall amateur dramatic production, but it isn't cinematic. A surprising mis-fire from Frears.