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* CreatorBacklash: The film has ultimately become an OldShame for the company behind it, as they have refused to have it reprinted or distributed on online movie sites, even going as far as to have the tagline "the lowest form of life" printed on all dvd copies of the film as a way of denouncing it. Averted with the film's director, however, who still defends the movie to this day, even accusing people who dislike the film of not understanding it.

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* CreatorBacklash: The film has ultimately become an OldShame a source of embarrassment for the company behind it, as they have refused to have it reprinted or distributed on online movie sites, even going as far as to have the tagline "the lowest form of life" printed on all dvd copies of the film as a way of denouncing it. Averted with the film's director, however, who still defends the movie to this day, even accusing people who dislike the film of not understanding it.



* GenreKiller: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that Series/TheInbetweeners, which is universally agreed to be far superior in every-way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie ever could.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Dvds of the film are long out of print, and to this day, the movie is unavailable to watch on any movie streaming services.

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* GenreKiller: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that Series/TheInbetweeners, ''Series/TheInbetweeners'', which is universally agreed to be far superior in every-way every way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie ever could.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Dvds [=DVDs=] of the film are long out of print, and to this day, the movie is unavailable to watch on any movie streaming services.
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* CreatorBacklash: The film has ultimately become an OldShame for the company behind it, as they have refused to have it reprinted or distributed on online movie sites, even going as far as to have the tagline "the lowest form of life" printed on all dvd copies of the film as a way of denouncing it. Averted with the film's director, however, who still defends the movie to this day, even accusing people who dislike the film of not understanding it.
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* CreatorKiller: The film's writer and director, Andy Humphries, has been limited to directing only TV movies and shows, most of which have fallen into obscurity, after this movie was released.
* GenreKiller: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that Series/TheInbetweeners, which is universally agreed to be far superior in every-way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie did.

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* CreatorKiller: The After directing this movie, the film's writer and director, Andy Humphries, has been limited to directing only TV movies and shows, most of which have fallen into obscurity, after this movie was released.
including even his most recent ones.
* GenreKiller: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that Series/TheInbetweeners, which is universally agreed to be far superior in every-way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie did.ever could.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: DVDs of the film are long out of print, and to this day, the movie is unavailable to watch on any movie streaming services.

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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: DVDs Dvds of the film are long out of print, and to this day, the movie is unavailable to watch on any movie streaming services.
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* CreatorKiller: The film's writer and director, Andy Humphries, has been limited to directing only TV movies and shows, most of which have fallen into obscurity, after this movie was released.
* GenreKiller: The film was intended to be a resurrection of the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre, but it ultimately ended up killing it instead. It wasn't until a few years later that Series/TheInbetweeners, which is universally agreed to be far superior in every-way possible, would do a much better job (albeit, very briefly) at resurrecting the genre than this movie did.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $1.8 million. Box office, $1.25 million. Often cited as one of the worst British films in years, this AwfulBritishSexComedy was slammed by virtually every critic and has a rare 0% rating on Website/RottenTomatoes. Compounding the issue was the fact that one-third of the budget was provided by the National Lottery's "good causes" funding via the UK Film Council and this "absolutely, indescribably horrible, vulgar, stupid, tawdry, depressing, embarrassing, filthy, vile, stinky, repugnant, slimy, unclean, nasty, degenerative and mind-numbing" film (as Creator/MarkKermode put it) is ''not'' what people expected their money to go towards.

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