Huge (2011)

Critic Reviews

• Jason Solomons, Observer [UK]

  Miller catches the dinge of the pub stand-up circuit nicely and certainly nails the desperation.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  Expect bigger laughs staring at the roof of your own oven with gas hissing into your ears.

• Jason Best, Movie Talk

  You'd think comedian Ben Miller's day job as one half of double act Armstrong and Miller would have stood him in good stead for his directing debut - a film about a comedy double act. It hasn't. His screen duo aren't the least bit funny or enaging.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  It's yet another of those British films with a good idea squandered because someone gives the go-ahead before the script is fully developed.

• Caroline Jowett, Daily Express

  Huge is painfully unfunny and desperately unconvincing.

• Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo

  Sadly, despite all those comedians the movie falls short on laughs.

• Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]

  Goes behind the scenes of the open-mic circuit where it proceeds to trip over the cables and get tangled in the curtains.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  [A] failed comedy, disguised as a dopey drama, shot with the most dispiriting fuzzy flatness, and scripted like a soap. It's all epically feeble.

• David Parkinson, Radio Times

  The almost complete absence of wit from the screenplay ensures that this study of aspiration, delusion and desperation is as unendurable as one of Warren and Clark's routines.

• Tim Evans, Sky Movies

  It's a downbeat, low-key peek into the thankless task of climbing the greasy entertainment pole and you're rewarded - not with laughs - but a grim insight into quite how unfunny the comedy world can be.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Poorly directed, badly written and cripplingly miscast, this is a desperately unfunny comedy that fails on every conceivable level.

• Patrick Peters, Empire Magazine

  Not hugely funny.

• Ed Whitfield, The Ooh Tray

  ... The lack of mirth coupled with the self-conscious kook employed in characterisation, make it hard to care whether they succeed or not and difficult to know if they'd deserve it if they did.

• Neil Smith, Total Film

  A thoroughly disheartening affair that looks like it was shot through gauze...

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