Celebrity Juice - Brilliant, hilarious. Lemon Da Vida Loca - Very entertaining. Keith Lemon: The Film - Thoroughly disappointing.

From the opening scenes this "film" lacked comedy and creativity and just when it looked like it would get better it went on to nose dive even further. The storyline lacked originality and wasn't really in keeping with Lemon's character, and the heavy splashing of celebrities wasn't used to its' full potential.

We expected constant laughs, but comedy content was light and generally a repeat of what you see on the telly. The outtakes at the end were probably the highlight!

This is Keith Lemon in a bad film, not Keith Lemon being Keith Lemon. If you like Keith Lemon on the TV your time would be better spent watching Celebrity Juice re-runs on You Tube.

The funniest thing about this movie has to be its trailer, which took all the best lines and scenes from the film, changed their order and context, and portrayed a very different movie to the one you end up watching.

The two main problems that I found with this movie is that for one thing, Leigh Francis's character of Keith Lemon is fundamentally unlikeable, and secondly, the entire cornerstone for any humour in it is based on catchphrases and jokes that any fan will already have heard a hundred times before.

During one of the many times that my mind wandered away, I wondered what the point of the film was. Was it meant to springboard the character to an international audience (hence the need to shoehorn in every catchphrase and joke ever uttered on Celebrity Juice to regions that might not have seen or heard them before), or was it a nod to existing fans (seeing as the whole film seemed to be done on a shoestring budget and couldn't possibly be considered a serious international contender).

And I still have no idea what the answer is, and therefore have no idea why this film exists at all.

The Keith Lemon character has been over-exposed on UK television for some time now, and I'm of the opinion that Leigh Francis is well aware of this fact himself, and decided to wring every last penny out of it rather than to come up with a new character or new material.

Seeing this film has only served to put me off Keith Lemon, to the point where the new series of Celebrity Juice (due to begin today) has gone from being a viewing highlight that I was looking forward to, to a case of "I'll give it one chance and if it gets on my nerves like the film did I'll stop watching entirely".

There's no need for a spoiler warning in this review because there's no film to spoil. There's very little in the way of acting, plot, script, pacing or storyline. It's just Keith Lemon rehashing everything you've heard before, except you're stuck in the cinema watching it and wishing you were somewhere else.

If you're a Keith Lemon fan - avoid. And if you're not - avoid it twice as hard.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!

When I first heard that Keith Lemon was getting his own film, I was quite excited. Leigh Francis' character Keith Lemon is somewhat of a guilty pleasure, and the excitement for his film was born from my love for ITV2's show Celebrity Juice, which although isn't the most intelligent show on television, it is crudely funny, and I guess something a teenager like myself is supposed to enjoy. My excitement was slightly dashed after the airing of 'Lemon La Vida Loca', which although mildly amusing, was a totally different side to the character, which had moved from real life interactions, to acting as a real life character.

My fears were confirmed as soon as the film started, as it was obvious the same 'reality acting' would be continued. Still, I wanted to give the film a chance since I was such a fan of Lemon, which started off with him in bed with Kelly Brook. To be honest, the plot of the full film was lackluster at best, which involved Keith, a struggling Leeds businessman, dropping his useless invention, for a phone that he rebranded the Lemon phone, going on to dominate the market, and subsequently lose the fortune he had earned. Although the film boasts plenty of B-list celebrities, the cast was disappointing with no actor standing out and celebrities not being used well.The whole film felt silly, and I made the comparison with 'The Mighty Boosh', especially the villain Evil Steve among other quirky comedy.

Amongst attempts at gross out comedy, the film was laden with overkill use of Keiths catchphrases so to speak - 'oush' seem to make it into most scenes, with 'finger blast', 'smash your back doors in' and 'morererer' also making regular appearances. One thing that annoyed me was a repeated misuse of his northern accent when counting, for example 'two and a 'alf', something I have never seen Lemon do before, and was neither funny nor witty.

To be fair however, the film wasn't laughless. A scene in a taxi with various spice girls, a running joke with Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating and Simon Pegg; and Keith and Paddy McGuiness' character in a strip club all raised a smiled. But this wasn't enough to save the film by any stretch of the imagination.

Overall, Keith Lemon: The Film was a huge disappointment, they took away the reality and shock from Lemon, the one thing that made him funny, and made Francis act, to a script that must take longer to read than it did to write, which left the character looking awkward and unfunny, and ultimately set the film up to fail. Before wasting your money on this, perhaps consider other films that are out, especially if you want to be entertained, unless a partially naked Kelly Brook is all you want to see.

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