Inbetweeners Movie pulls in more than 3 million viewers

Channel 4 picked a winner with its broadcast of the record-breaking adolescent romp, taking a 16.4% share of the audience.

It's pretty much as feared: while Channel 4's The Inbetweeners series delivers plenty of laughs in quickfire half-hour spurts, it fails miserably as big-screen comedy. This crude, lewd but very funny sitcom about four 'clunge'-obsessed but socially inadequate teen schoolkids sees the lads heading to Crete with some inherited cash. You can guess what's going to happen from the moment they set foot in their ghastly holiday apartment block. There's no story to speak of, and it mainly revolves around their earnest determination to have one hell of a good time. They drink, they say 'cock' a lot, they wear bright pink T-shirts with 'Pussay Patrol' emblazoned on them, they fumble about with a quartet of English girls and they are threatened by a Greek waiter and a handsome studmuffin. All the traits and trappings of a typically decadent British holiday, then. There are a few amusing moments, but it's nothing like as funny as the series and littered with failed gags and deadends. Despite its record-breaking box office, this is another British TV comedy turned bad.

Inbetweeners Movie performs poorly at U.S. box office

It's the cult TV hit that became a cinematic sensation at the UK box-office, earning a staggering £45 million. But in the US over the weekend, The Inbetweeners Movie took less than $36,000 at only 10 screens, and the film's co-creator Iain Morris has blamed it on the language barrier.

The Inbetweeners: will they score in Hollywood?

To promote the film's US release the British teenagers are pictured with a foot-long sausage - but something may be getting lost in translation.

The Inbetweeners Movie to be shown in USA in September

It has been revealed that The Inbetweeners Movie is set to make its way stateside this September.