Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's an old format run into the ground. That's basically Celeb Big Brother in a nutshell.You get a few people each year that you actually have heard of, but when you have to be told in great lengths about who the people are, and why they count as being a celeb then surely the format is dead? Poor old Emma Willis has to stand there and make the 'twists' in the format seem exciting, and try to make us care about these Z listers, but by now I think we all spot this show for what it is - car crash telly.

This is a version of Big Brother that has celebrity housemates and much shorter series. Very few of the celebrities are actually famous. Most of them either used to be famous and are trying to make a comeback - or they are talentless wannabes who have never really been famous and are trying to use a reality show to launch their careers. Most of the housemates are either boring or are arrogant / obnoxious.

STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits The same concept as the original BB (where nobodies go in!), only this time with 11 'celebrities', though usually D listers or below or else once big-time stars desperate to re-vive their careers.What makes the regular Big Brother stand out is that it's 12 ordinary people who nobody knows and we watch to see what being couped up in a house with 12 different personalities will do to certain individuals and get a car crash sort of thrill out of watching them fall out, bitch and moan about each other. But as regards celebrities, we get enough of that in gossip columns and magazines with them, but still we as a society feel the need for a 'celebrity' big brother (although this year they've put a bit of a slant on this by putting an Essex girl named Chantelle in who's first task is to fool all the other real celebs into thinking she was in a girl-band that had a hit record!) Seeing what an impact last year's series had, I ended up feeling a bit left out that I didn't pay much attention to it while it was on, but I've payed pretty sharp attention to this year's series so far. We have a really controversial contestant in Michael Barrymore, still dogged by the unsolved death of a party-goer at his house five years ago and living in New Zealand since. He probably set many tongues wagging before he even set foot in the house, and equally disliked by some is Labour defector George Galloway, backing out of Blair's invasion of Iraq plan at the last minute and an alleged friend of Saddam Hussein's (he might be mourning a loss later on in the year then!) They are easily the two most controversial house-mates and, as the older ones, they've also tried to be the most dominating ones and are now seen as bullies in the eyes of some. Extrovert wise, we have cross dressing basketball champ Dennis Rodman, with his eye seemingly on all the sexy ladies in the house (including Baywatch's first mixed race babe Tracy Bingham and Sven's bit on the side, Faria Alam), and the unbelievable Pete Burns. The rest are the usual ones at the end of the celebrity scale ('Maggot' out of Goldie Lookin' Chain, some guy out of some band I've never heard of and reality TV favourite Jodie Marsh.) Like it's original counter-part, it is of course rubbish TV, where conflicting personalities are deliberately hoisted in together to cause friction, spirit-crushing 'tasks' are set to humiliate and wear down the contestants motivation and self-esteem and it's all basically as manufactured as a pop band, but it's also as big a guilty pleasure as it's CP and you can't help but watch it and get hooked in on it. And the series is only young yet, and we never know what will develop. ***

I started watching the normal Big Brother when Nadia, Victor and Marco were in the house in Big Brother 5. After this came Celebrity Big Brother which was pretty much like the regular show, still with Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary and narrated by Marcus Bentley, except with famous faces as house mates. I started from series 3, and since then they have had: John McCririck, Jackie Stallone (Sylvester Stallone's Mum), Caprice, Jeremy Edwards, Mark 'Bez' Berry (winner), Germaine Greer, Michael Barrymore, Jodie Marsh, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Pete Burns (who had surgery to look like a woman) and Traci Bingham. I would have loved to have seen Chris Eubank, Vanessa Feltz, Keith Duffy, Jack Dee, Melinda Messenger, Goldie, Sue Perkins, Les Dennis and Mark Owen. A very good show, just as good as the normal show if not a tiny bit better. Vanessa Feltz's suffering was number 51 on The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers, John McCririck's complaints were number 27 on The 100 Greatest Funny Moments, and it was number 15 on The 100 Greatest TV Treats 2002. Very good!