G Barnard

Firstly, my five stars is for this film being an epic comical cringe fest from the first moment. A lot of the things I say will have been said but worth repetition I think. The taxi driver at the airport who had swallowed a Doric dictionary with his epically mobile accent was the moment I knew I was going to love laughing at this film!! He then proceeded to drive to a supposed Aberdeenshire castle, via Inveraray to the north coast of east Lothian. From the castle it is just a short 40mile walk to the village of Culross in Fife. I know these things don't really matter for a story but just a little nod to reality wouldn't go a miss. Then we met the locals....now, I'm English and live in Scotland, but Scotland can't do pubs, and this one looked like a care home for the bewildered inhabitants!!! Each one of them a 'concern for' in anyone's book! So, we now come to the most unutterably giant cock up of them all.......McGuinty, which I believe is an Irish name, fair enough I can almost accept that til practically every tune played on a fiddle in the film is an Irish jig!!! Please tell me this was meant to be a comedy, because I pmsl from the moment it started to the excruciating Disney castle finale!! I haven't even mentioned the dukes obviously american big square chin and hair-do, the repetitive use of 'I guess' when we would say 'I suppose', the reference to a 'stick' for a manual gearbox car, Brooke referring to the battle against the 'british' in the 17th century!!! Should I go on? Would I watch this again? Absolutely! It has warmed the cockles of my soul!!! Now, I just need £3000 for my taxi to DunDunbar!