Director: Richard Bracewell

Stars: Graham Fellows, Amelia Davies, Ethaniel Davies, Michael Dalton

Graham Fellows, partly channelling his John Shuttleworth persona, is the best reason to watch this underwhelming British comedy. He is Kev Maddams, a green-fingered gardening enthusiast Grandad in Norfolk’s Fens district. When two school friends Jayce (Davey) and Paula (the likeable Davies) discover that Maddams has unwittingly grown a shed full of weed on his allotment, they offer to fence it off. The neglected elder and the aimless teens discover a sense of purpose and camaraderie in their new enterprise, but they must contend with the local dealers’ syndicate. Director Bracewell, who helmed the disappointing Horrible Histories Shakespeare spinoff ‘Will’ fails to bring any momentum to the proceedings, while the script, co-written by Patrick Dalton, creator of the ‘Shit London’ toilet book series, relies too much on the well-worn comic collision of parochial buffoonery and conventional crime pic for laughs, which come seldomly. ‘Ghosts’’ Laurence Rickard turns in an amusing cameo as a conspiracy theory subscribing mechanic, and such are Fellows’ comic gifts, he is able to summon up some laughs from the tired old square-gets-high comic trope.

David Willoughby

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