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With their Garage career seemingly in the past, their aspirations are rekindled after they discover potential fame and recognition on the other side of the globe. Grindah is a postman, Beats works in a Bowling Alley, Chabuddy G lives in his van and is still a wannabe entrepreneur and Steves is still taking copious amounts of drugs. We begin with members of Kurupt FM years later working regular jobs.
KURUPT FM BIG IN JAPAN CINEMA MOVIE
So instead of making a miserable film about getting old and having kids a la Bill & Ted: Face The Music, the narrative of this movie really comes out of left-field. With the audience being told that Kurupt FM has lasted for 15 years with only two songs, as well as Beats making a comment about dragging “it on for years”, this is a show penned by writers who understand what fans want. With comments about “’01 to ’04 – the golden era” and “2005 was when music got shit” this has everything to do with old-school vibes and nostalgia. Thankfully, all these issues are handled in this film the secondary characters are hardly in it, which means this serves as both a reunion or back-to-basics of the original cast and a follow-up. Unfortunately, in that time, Garage and Grime have waned somewhat, other than a few old-school samples here and there.
KURUPT FM BIG IN JAPAN CINEMA SERIES
This kind of spoof would have been welcome back in the late ’90s or early ’00s but it took until 2014 for the first series and seven more years for this mockumentary movie. Like I already mentioned, the other problem is that Garage music is well and truly in the past. Just like Bill & Ted’s marriage in the sequel (but thankfully not as terrible as its threequel) the Kurupt crew slowly became family-men and we were introduced to new characters in the later series (namely Beats’ partner and son, and Miche’s boss) who brought a completely different feel to the show. Personally, I thought that the show slowly lost that special ingredient that made it so good almost a decade ago. They’re told to dance, change their costumes and haircuts, and perform at a pop concert as a boy band, because that’s the only way they’ll make cash and attain fame. Once in Tokyo and with their manager sidelined, Kurupt FM are told to change their name to “Bang Boys” (which Steves says sounds like a “paedophile ring” 🤣). We follow the Brentford Massive as they travel to Japan after discovering that one of their tracks has been used on a popular game show “The Bang Bang Show”. After five series, People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan, is basically a neat and satisfying conclusion to the BBC show. Along with Man Like Mobeen, People Just Do Nothing is one of the few comedy shows that represents regular working-class British people whilst successfully making us all laugh.
Almost in the same vein as Bill & Ted, we follow underachieving musicians MC Grindah, DJ Beats, Steves, Decoy, and Chabuddy G as they take drugs, DJ, MC, and never make it in the music scene.
KURUPT FM BIG IN JAPAN CINEMA TV
This plot therefore, is right up my alley and I’m pleased to say that this continuation of the TV show is very funny and entertaining.īefore I get to the film, I’ll describe the show in case any of you missed it… People Just Do Nothing is a hilarious mockumentary about a four-man Garage crew-cum-pirate radio station known as “Kurupt FM” and their hapless manager.
People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan is a fantastic satire about musicians’ credibility, selling out and watering-down their style in order to become famous, which is what I always used to harp-on about on back when I used to focus on Hip-Hop music. Of course, several years later, the parody of current music is less relevant and the show is a little bit more popular, which is kinda what this film is about. I remember watching the pilot on BBC Three late one night and wondering to myself why this wasn’t a bigger and more popular show.
I was a big fan of People Just Do Nothing back when it came out in 2012. By What Went Wrong Or Right With.? on Aug
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