Admirable film.

Absolutely the worst movie.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The TV series Mrs. Brown's Boys has divided opinion from audiences and critics alike, and it was inevitable that with the great success of the show the creators would attempt a full length movie. Basically Agnes Brown (Brendan O'Carroll) is an independent market trader, selling fruit and vegetables on her stall in Moore Street market, in Dublin. But her livelihood is threatened by greedy businessmen who want to take out all the market stalls and build a shopping centre on the site, Mrs. Brown is threatened when she has a bill for unpaid tax. Mrs. Brown has to prove that this bill has already been paid, this matter is taken to the courtroom, but she is unable to present evidence, her case gets a lot of attention from the press, who praise her as the best mother in Ireland, but she makes a shock confession that she briefly had some of her children put into care. Eventually it is discovered that a receipt exists of the bill payment at the NRS, failed attempts are made to take the receipt to the courtroom, but Russian mobsters are getting involved in the corruption and get to it before Mrs. Brown's friends and family can get to it. In the end, Mrs. Brown is proved to have paid the bill, when a braille version of the receipt is found, the case against her is dropped and everyone celebrates as the market is saved. Also starring Brendan O'Carroll as Mr. Wang, Eilish O'Carroll as Winnie McGoogan, Jennifer Gibney as Cathy Brown, Danny O'Carroll as Buster Brady, Paddy Houlihan as Dermot Brown, Fiona O'Carroll as Maria Brown, Rory Cowan as Rory Brown, Gary Hollywood as Dino Doyle, Pat Shields as Mark Brown, Dermot O'Neill as Grandad Brown, Fiona Gibney as Sharon McGoogan, Amanda Woods as Betty Brown, Martin Delany as Trevor Brown, Cold Feet's Robert Bathurst as Maydo Archer, Conor Moloney as Father Damien, Father Ted's Frank Kelly AS Justice Cannon, Dermot Crowley as P.R. Irwin, Sorcha Cusack as Justice Dickie, David Armand as James (PA), Jimmy Gibney as Father McBride, Boyzone's Keith Duffy as Security Guard John and Eamonn Holmes. O'Carroll is likable as the brash heroine with a foul mouth, unfortunately he has not written or produced something that memorable, all the supporting cast from the TV show do fine as well, especially Eilish O'Carroll as the reliable sidekick and Danny O'Carroll as the dimwitted career criminal being less than helpful. The best qualities of the show are the studio audience interaction, and the inclusion of production mistakes, fluffed lines, tomfoolery and cast laughing and smirking, the audience is missing and only tiny elements remain from the format, the story is only mildly and the jokes are a bit obvious, to be honest, it is not as funny as I'd hoped it would be, I suppose it's an alright comedy. Okay!

I had been a fan of Mrs. Brown since the theatre years before the TV show ever came along which would sky rocket Mrs. Brown to fame. When I first heard about the Movie I was expecting the usual really dirty jokes that Mrs. Brown is best known for, usually Mrs. Brown is absolutely funny as hell. However...that wasn't the case with the Movie, what I thought was going to be a great film was instead a complete "pile of s***", it's absolutely terrible... My question is, what went wrong? Although Brendan O'Carroll who plays Mrs. Brown did write the story but the movie felt like it wasn't in his control. Most of the jokes were not funny at all, there were some really good moments but for the most part it was like nobody put any real care for the movie. But the worst thing of all, what happened to the really dirty humour that we love Mrs. Brown for? It's so bad, it's actually making me think about stop being a fan of Mrs. Brown for good because it's a real shame that the movie is ruined with a poor direction.Sure you can take the theatre out to the TV but it looks like you can't take the theatre into a movie.

So the titular character owes €3.8 million in taxes, and has to pay it or her livelihood will be taken away.That's the story. Other sub lots involve the Russian Mafia, Racism. Blind Ninjas, Sexism, breaking the fourth wall on several occasions, and then pretending to do an outtake halfway through the film, because hey, a lot of the people who watch this abomination on TV wouldn't know what good comedy was even if they were visited by The Spanish Inquisition....And truth be told, its terrible, from beginning to end, its cringeworthy stuff, and as soon as the titular character turns over and broke wind at the beginning, just confirmed the shameful, lazy writing that this thing has.The breaking of the fourth wall is awful, but the worse thing that this film has, are the silly out takes that we get 'treated to' in the second act, its clear that they are staged.All in all, yes, it's made a shedload of money, but that doesn't mean that many people liked it.Come the end of the film, I saw Keith Duffy, and realised I wasn't actually watching the film, I was just looking at the screen, bored senseless.Do not treat your 'mammy' to this, this Christmas, as all the advertising will no doubt say.A poisonous cash in, stopping people seeing something decent at the cinema.

I really looked forward to seeing this. I love the TV show. Put simply though, like so many great television comedies, it just doesn't work in a full length movie. Of course there are funny (or at least mildly amusing) moments, but just not enough of them to carry the rather absurd plot. The solicitor's character and affliction had rich comedic potential, but was wasted in style. Hopefully this disappointing effort will not damage the reputation of what is a great success story. If you get bored like I did, at least the last line gets the biggest laugh of the whole thing (at least it did when I was there). However, that says more about the quality of what has gone before than it does about that moment.Very poor.