Bereft of the focus and brisk energy of the studio-bound TV sit-com format, D'Movie is mostly a disappointing drag. The aspects that work best transfer surprisingly well from the TV incarnation - the fourth-wall breaking, the corpsing, the occasional meta-bits such as the opening that transfers the audience from a set to the 'real' world - but as soon as it moves away from the focus of the family members and tries to be more of a movie, such as an underwhelming opening song-and-dance number, it meets with far less success. There are a few laughs to be had (though often through mindless offensiveness: Parkinson's, Tourette's, visual impairment, racial and sexuality stereotypes), with far more to like than The Harry Hill Movie, and the cast try hard, but yet again the transfer from one format to another is not truly successful.
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