The film loses its satiric edge as it begins to melodramatically detail how Maurice Flitcroft inherited the mantle of folk hero.
Thanks to a strong performance by Nicholas Hoult, the film keeps threatening to become more dynamic and self-critical than its final result.
The promo materials implore us to vote either #TeamFrat or #TeamFamily on Twitter, though we’re way more likely to be split between #TeamPecEfron and #TeamByrneBoobsplosion.
Following their successful The Beauty Inside, Inside Films premiered a new “social film” yesterday called The Power Inside
The film mistakenly assumes that its dialogue-heavy focus will compensate for its dearth of personality.
Mostly, Submarine succeeds by perfectly recapturing the way teenagers behave.