areatw 'Green Street Hooligans' is more than just a hilarious comedy movie, it's also a brilliant look at two very different cultures and ways of life. One being the violence driven world of football hooliganism, and the other the life of a middle class academic. It's a film that has just about everything - humour, violence, drama, romance, and much more. It is so much more than a comedy film and it pulls off everything it attempts.While fights and violence account for a large portion of the film, it's the storyline and script that makes this film the classic that it is. Granted, a middle class American Harvard student finding himself in the English football hooliganism underworld is a pretty far-fetched scenario, but it does work and once you've got over the initial idea, 'Green Street Hooligans' is a hugely enjoyable film.

Ersbel Oraph This is This Is England meets Fight Club. But it does not rise to the level of any of them. Probably the biggest production mistake is Elijah Wood. For the entire length of the movie every time he was appearing on screen I could not think anything but "Frodo!" and giggle. Even the exposed belly fat when he gets inked screams "Frodo!". So bottom line: this was a comedy for me.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

mharah There must be something redeeming about British football, but I have yet to find it. Media representations, both factual and fictional, seem largely concerned with bad behavior by young (and not so young) males. (To be fair, male American football fans aren't a whole lot better, just less violent.} Elijah Wood portrays Matt, a young American student at Harvard who is falsely accused of drug-dealing and expelled. That plot gets lost early on, but it does get him to London, where he bunks with his sister (Claire Forlani, a Brit, herself playing an American), now married to a Brit. Her brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), a football hooligan, is also on the scene. He is delegated to help Matt adjust to life in London, an assignment Pete is initially not thrilled about. Events spiral downhill from there. Wood is well-cast as the straight arrow Harvard boy who (for whatever reason) takes the fall for his well-connected, politically ambitious, drug dealer roommate. He is thrust into the violent Hooligan culture of London and takes to it. Hunnam, who has been criticized for his accent, realizes that film is an international commodity, and English is the language of commercially successful films. Actors have to be understood everywhere, not just locally. Most of his mates don't get that, and it makes much of the dialogue problematic. Forlani is given little to do and does little with it. This could have been a brilliant film; Wood always has the potential to make his vehicles be so. But it does not achieve that goal, and British football is the culprit. It is hard to sympathize with anything which finds its inspiration in a sport typified by the unruly behavior of its advocates.

johnbirch-2 It is entirely possible that the original draft of the script for this film was probably quite good, but then it rather appears that some committee got hold of it. "No, you can't say that" they seem to have said "Americans would not understand it. You need to explain". Time and time again...The result is, while I could forgive the wild inaccuracies, like catching a train from Kings Cross to Manchester, or the strangely empty Blackwall Tunnel, it was the huge lumps of clanking unrealistic dialogue that, for me ruined the film.The acting is average at best, the violence dull and repetitive, the story predictable. Shame really. There was probably a good story in there once.