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Lack of good storyline.

An unexpected masterpiece

Absolutely the worst movie.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I must say this movie surprised me. It's beautiful and made me fall in love with the 70's again. An amazing sense of humour and an enjoyable soundtrack. With characters trying to do everything to avoid ending up their lives the way everyone wants them to. I highly recommend this movie. You should always dare to do what you feel you have to do.It's not my fault, I'm inspired.

It's summer of 1973. Freddie Taylor (Christian Cooke) comes from working class suburb of Cemetery Junction. He doesn't want to follow his father (Ricky Gervais) into the factories. He takes a job selling life insurance from district manager Mr Kendrick (Ralph Fiennes) and Mike Ramsay (Matthew Goode). He has a cool friend Bruce Pearson (Tom Hughes) and an idiot friend Snork (Jack Doolan). Childhood acquaintance and his boss's daughter Julie Kendrick (Felicity Jones) returns to town and is now engaged to Mike Ramsay. Mrs Kendrick (Emily Watson) is the long suffering wife.Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have mashed together a lot of coming-of-age stories for the setup of this movie. It's got great actors although the three male leads are unknown to me. That is its main drawback for the first half. It takes a little while for me to get involved with these friends. Then the movie take some interesting turns in the characters' journeys. It takes some digs at the stale British life. It's a bit uneven between broad comedy and tough social commentary. But I do like the effort it makes.

This was the film on late last night on BBC One, so it was one of those things that one just watches to pass an odd hour or so between the late-evening programmes and bedtime, without really demanding too much of oneself. However, it inevitably raised one of those half-forgotten aspects of British 1970s Popular Culture - the at-the-time ground-breaking BBC TV fly-on-the-wall documentary series 'The Family', set in a working class neighbourhood in nowhere else but Reading. I simply could not help humming the unforgettable signature tune of 'The Family' as I made my way upstairs to bed. I know I have only been on the 'Trivia' and the first page of the 'User Comments', but I am amazed that nobody has thought to mention this parallel, especially given that Gervais' 'The Office' was itself, essentially, filmed as a faux fly-on-the-wall documentary.As a sort of Northerner, by the way, (well a North MIDLANDER, at any rate!), it's interesting to see the South take for itself a little bit of the 'ownership' of Northern Soul in the night club scene. Maybe that, itself, raises the engaging matter of non-Northern Northern Soul back in the 1970s heyday. I suppose that, like 'The Family' exposed those living in more northern climes to the fact that there were such things as blue collar neighbourhoods in the apparently privileged provincial South and East, one didn't have to have lived in the North to have experienced the essentially blue collar-driven social scene that was Northern Soul....an antidote to 'SoulBoy' and its Stoke-on-Trent setting? Not a film to set the world alight, but one that raises a couple of intriguing questions, nevertheless.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant create a feel good film set in the 1970s Reading suburb. The focus of the film is three friends, Freddy Taylor, Snork and Bruce. Ambitious Freddie wants to rise above and work at a high post wearing a suit and tie. Bruce is the 'bad boy' who talks about leaving his job for something better but he only ends up being a troublemaker. Snork is the goofy one who works at a railway station and wants a girlfriend.Merchant and Gervais's attention to detail towards the life and culture of that time is brilliant. The contrast between family dynamic, class, and social attitude is very well depicted. Most of the humour works but some of the jokes felt forced. An example is the 'c' word joke that Snork mentions after performing at Kendrick's party.I found the characters of Bruce and Freddy to be problematic. They just didn't seem very interesting and failed to involve the viewer in their world. Their interactions felt bland. Christian Cooke and Tom Hughes are quite average. Of the three friends, Jack Doolan appealed to me at most. His best scenes were when he was trying to flirt with the baker's daughter.The supporting cast is superb. Emily Watson is the standout. She has a tiny role but is incredibly convincing as the quiet desperate housewife who continues to yearn for her husband's affection. Ralph Fiennes is great as the snobbish Mr. Kendrick. Ricky Gervais has about four scenes and, along with the actors Julia Davis and Anne Reid provide some of the most hilarious scenes of the film.Overall, even though I found something to be off about the lead characters Bruce and Freddy, 'Cemetary Junction' is quite likable. It's definitely better than Gervais and Merchant's previous 'The Invention of Lying'.