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AMA: I saw The Nan M0vie/ last night (Sun) fgkhdsgfkdhsg

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genuinely, u watch the trailer & it does give u a Very Good idea of what this is like. I still cant understand why the fuck it got made; dont really know for certain, but surely Tate hasn't played this character since like... at the MOST Recent 2006 or smth, ykwim?

The jokes aren’t great, the modern day stuff and the period stuff mesh Extremely Strangely, complete tonal whiplash, and there’s these weird animated portions set in every so often which are, imo, extremely 2009, gfkshfgkds. 

With some of the jokes, like the militant vegan stuff, and the ‘craft therapy van’ I couldnt exactly tell like, where the joke is meant to lie, ykwim? like, is this directly making fun of this thing? Is the joke that the batshit old woman is really dismissive of it?? There’s also this sly thread of her calling her grandson a Nancy/Pansy/etc, which im probs a little too sensitive about, but  that weirded me out as well. (typing that out has made me remember the bit that has an Oitnb ref, as well as a bunch of prison lesbian rape talk :/ )

[At the end, when she finally reunites with her estranged sister, Walter - the person who her sister stole from her romantically/whatever, and that whole thing caused the estrangement, ykhii - is revealed to be a crossdresser. Given how the UK is, this made me, Pretty Tense!! i TRULY have no clue what the fuck they were trying to do with this, like its a cute reunion, there’s a couple of jokes about how Walter & the sister share clothes, they go thru a lookbook photo album etc; but there’s also the insistence of ‘nah but like, I’m totally a man, as masc as ever’, and stuff. And look, I’m not exactly expecting much - this is the fucken Nan Movie! - but :S ! couldnt get a read on that at all].

All that said, god is there a surprising amount of controversy/articles about this movie that almost no one in the world will ever bother to see, lmao. There’s no officially credited director, because supposedly all the period stuff was what the original movie was meant to be?? and then someone realised that “hey, kinda weird that our movie about a sketch show granny has no jokes in, yeah?”, so they scrapped it, got someone else to film all the modern shit, and used animation to paper over the gaps bc the budget was so fckn stretched by that point. The budget thing is why - and this might be the only reason to see the film, lol - a tonne of it seems to have been shot in Ireland! They’re using parts of Dublin to sub in for liverpool, the nightclub scene is LITCH someplace I have been several times, and there’s a bunch of footage that I think was taken on the M50 lmao. So, that bit was kinda fun.

Genuinely the period stuff is like, alright I guess? there is some real emotional performances being given, imo - or at least, they seemed that way in comparison with the rest of it, and I think my fave joke was probs in there, but idk.

But hey! I say all this but it made my friend cry bc she got so caught up in the emotions of Nan’s deceased husband growing old with her and getting ice-cream and stuff, so maybe its just not made for me.