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David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

Comedy | 96 minutes
2,98 216 votes

Genre: Comedy / Mockumentary

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ricky Gervais

Stars: Ricky Gervais

IMDb score: 6,3 (22.534)

Releasedate: 19 August 2016

David Brent: Life on the Road plot

"The boss is back"

David Brent has been working as a self-employed door-to-door salesman for 15 years after his dismissal from Wernham Hogg. However, his big dream is still to break through as a musician. When a camera team comes to follow him again, he decides to go on tour with his band Foregone Conclusion, in the hope of gaining the fame he so longs for.

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mrklm

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Ricky Gervais seamlessly reprises the role of David Brent, the central figure in the brilliant faux-docuseries 'The Office'. Brent decides to use his savings to finance a tour with a band consisting of session musicians and a rapper who has not been used too effectively. Obviously his lack of skill (as a copywriter that is), his ego and his neurotic behavior stand in the way of success. Although David Brent is a brilliant creation here too, this film has few surprises and feels a bit like a repetition of moves. The basic idea is very strong and the combination of excellent arrangements with subtly cringing lyrics is irresistible at times, especially with 'Native Americans' and 'Don't Cry It's Christmas', but this could have been a much nicer film.

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Roger Thornhill

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A nice sequel to The office that offers little else : David Brent is still half pathetic and half intolerable, and his attempts to become a rock star result in the expected success. His character remains strong and the lyrics of the songs are often wonderfully cringeworthy (about an orphan who dreams about Santa Claus: "Although you'll never see him, he's not just in your mind / It's not that he's invisible, it's because you' going blind"), but what kills the film a bit is that in the interviews edited in between, the band members of Foregone Conclusion in their unvarnished opinions immediately reflect the (supposed) judgment of the viewer, with the two undesirable consequences that I feel like viewer does not feel taken completely seriously (because why does it even have to be explained how embarrassing Brent's behavior is?) And that every joke is actually made twice, once "live" and once in the commentary. Incidentally, the songs themselves are often musically clichéd but still quite nice, and it's nice that Brent gets his own "moment" of sympathy and contact at the end (just like at the office party of The office[/ i]). All in all entertaining and funny, but also a bit disappointing due to the "repeat recipe" and because of the double-op interviews. The official video for David Brent's [i]Lady gypsy on YouTube is actually just as witty in 200 seconds.

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flaphead

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Phew, this is secretly painfully cliché bad. It's nice that Gervais is pulling the famous character out of the closet again and the vicarious awkward embarrassment is plenty. But it doesn't really work (anymore). That is mainly because every scene of the film is predictable, really the story from beginning to end. There are certainly some laughs and chuckles in it, but overall it's not really fun. Certainly not when morality is pushed forward and there is a horrible cringeworthy 'feel-good' scene including Christmas music; what a horrible drama. If only that was meant as a parody, but no, the film takes itself way too seriously here. As icing on the cake, the office romance also unfolds for a while. Sigh.

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