When I read the jacket for this I thought they must be kidding.
It's pretty much as low brow as it gets, it's certainly not going to win any awards, nor become a hidden gem or even some kind of underground cult classic.
In fact there are many aspects of it, which on face value are just plane bad.
But hold on a minute, why is it then, that when I think back on it, it makes me smile? Why is the friendly visitor track stuck in my head? I'm not sure I know.
But, if you find yourself in the supermarket looking through the under a fiver DVD bin and you come across this film, and then one bored afternoon you find you have 74 minutes spare (it's mercifully short), give it a watch.
It's not great, but there is something about it that's quintessentially Irish in the best possible way.
It's pretty much as low brow as it gets, it's certainly not going to win any awards, nor become a hidden gem or even some kind of underground cult classic.
In fact there are many aspects of it, which on face value are just plane bad.
But hold on a minute, why is it then, that when I think back on it, it makes me smile? Why is the friendly visitor track stuck in my head? I'm not sure I know.
But, if you find yourself in the supermarket looking through the under a fiver DVD bin and you come across this film, and then one bored afternoon you find you have 74 minutes spare (it's mercifully short), give it a watch.
It's not great, but there is something about it that's quintessentially Irish in the best possible way.