It's easy to tell when British TV performers think that they are proper stars - they make an execrable low-rent film. Ant and Dec did it with Alien Autopsy, Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook with Sex Lives of the Potato Men and now James Corden and Mathew Horne have done it with *** Vampire Killers.
They inevitably always bomb for the very good reason that the people in them aren't as funny as they think they are - they may have achieved fame, usually from the skills of someone else - but talent doesn't automatically follow bombast.
Personally I've never found any of the above particularly talented in their TV work, Gavin and Stacey is especially nauseous and is saved only by Rob Brydon, but surely Corden and Horne's filmic efforts represent the very nadir of the genre, revealed by its particularly juvenile title.
I've never understood what goes through their minds when they think that making a film is a good thing to do - other than money. The only TV couple to have achieved any real success, either from the critics or at the box office, is Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
And Corden and Horne are certainly nowhere near as good as them. In fact, I'm confident in saying that their film will bomb, Gavin and Stacey will end after people grow tired of the one joke that seems to sustain the series and they will disappear without trace in a year.
