People are voting emotionally.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A Disappointing Continuation

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This show was huge back in the day. It was one of those shows buried away on the smaller BBC channels, became a hit and then got bumped up to BBC 1 purely based on the public's love of it. It was the same with Miranda.Only difference is that Miranda was funny. This show tries to be a modern 'Just Good Friends' and fails miserably. It has it's moments, don't get me wrong, but I highly doubt it will last the test of time as a classic sitcom.The only saving grace is James Corden, a funny man who quite rightly has gone onto bigger and better things, albeit sadly in the US. His charm and timing make this show in places, and his subsequent success is not a surprise.People love this show, and that's fair enough, I'm just not one of them.

This is a WONDERFUL comedy, and I can't recommend it enough! The very first episode had me hooked, and I finished the entire series in pretty much one sitting. Smithy and Nessa are my favorites, they're completely lovable characters and I think Jones and Corden were at their prime for this entire show. As someone who isn't Welsh or English, I liked how the slapstick and deadpan comedy still made everything so relatable and even though some of the obscure references went over my head, I still think every inch of it was ace. Every episode guarantees a good time, and some hearty laughs. It took me a while to warm up to some of the supporting characters though, but I think all in all they're collectively brilliant, and this show deserves to have more reruns aired on regular TV! Absolute must-see. Please give it a chance! It is very much comedy gold and is SO MUCH BETTER than most of the crap that passes for comedy on TV nowadays (ex., later seasons of HIMYM, blech). Have fun seeing it!

I bought the complete series of Gavin & Stacey in a box-set and could not stop watching it even though I wanted to delay watching the third and final season as it would mean that my viewing pleasure would be shortened.Gavin & Stacey is a story centred on 2 individuals, their family and friends. It has a very simple storyline showing how the characters relate to one another in their ordinary day to day lives.The romance between Gavin & Stacey aside, what I loved about the series is the friendship between Gavin & Smithy and Stacey and Vanessa. It is easy to identify with how the separate pairs of besties relate to each other and remain besties throughout the series despite their changing circumstances, like Gavin & Stacey getting married and each having to leave their hometowns and their besties at different points in the series.I particularly liked how Vanesssa (played by Ruth Jones) is so tough and yet vulnerable. Vanessa also makes makes some very terse remarks in her Welsh tongue which cracked me up. I love the soundtrack, and how the characters relate through music (music by New Order, for one).All the actors hold their own and both scriptwriters Ruth Jones and James Corden deserve the all accolades they have received for this series.

In the 1980s, the most famous hit of writer John Sullivan was 'Only Fools and Horses', but what actually won bigger ratings was a gentler comedy drama he wrote about two people falling in love, 'Just Good Friends'. And in some ways, 'Gavin and Stacey', a low key hit, is the 'Just Good Friends' of our time. At initial acquaintance, it's not riotously funny, and it's certainly not savage (unlike 'Pulling', another BBC3 hit); but the more you watch it, the more you find yourself smiling throughout, simply because the world it depicts is unquestionably the real world: this, in a way that few other television programs are, is a story of contemporary life. The central role of Gavin is quite passive and non-comic: the other characters are one-part sitcom staple, one part modern cliché, but still original - the mix works, supporting by acting and direction which overplays nothing and stays true to the rhythms of the everyday. As such, it's a record for the historians of the future to judge our age by; but very much also a comedy for us to laugh at now.