Submarine- Film Review

Submarine is the latest stab at conquering British comedy Heights topped by Hot Fuzz & The Full Monty. Its A Debut feature film from Richard Ayode (Moss from the I.T Crowd as he is probably sick of  being known as) follows socially awkward teenager Oliver Tate as he tries to solve all of his problems including stopping his parents from divorcing, getting a girlfriend and losing his virginity.

My favourite aspect of this film is that I could picture exactly what Ayode was trying to present and represent from every aspect of the filmmaking elements like cinematography and mise en scene. At points the camera work was beautifully done to represent characters emotions or at other times to increase the overall awkwardness of the film (Look out for main character oliver looking straght into the camera a lot, Made me chuckle a lot)

The characters are fully crafted and work very well together. The odd extremely socially awkward main character, The polar opposite confident sassy girlfriend, the quietly boring parents, and the new age hippie loser antagonist. All of these characters work very well with the socially awkward Oliver who would in real life be the social outcast in all situations.

I was particularly looking forward to the original songs recorded especially by Alex Turner (Arctic Monkey’s frontman) but as nice as it is to hear a normally mainstream rocky sound to be replaced with a quiet simple guitar music, I did get a bit annoyed that I probably wouldn’t be able to distinguish any of the songs from each other making them utterly boring.

Loads of the aspects of the film were very different and quirky e.g. every time a letter is read by the character not only is the author’s letter being read out by the author himself but there’s a long slow zooming shot of the character reading it in a dark room. These kinds of things made me chuckle.

Although the film was overall a bit odd and I ideally may need Richard Ayode’s assistance to fully understand the film; As a film it shows real promise that Ayode could become known as ‘That really funny British comedy director,’ rather than ‘Moss from The I.T Crowd.‘

And It's bloody funny!

8/10 Top Tip- Don’t go expecting to laugh at every sentence, only chuckle when it feels natural.