VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

jc-osms Before "Still Game", there was "Chewin' The Fat", a hilarious sketch show which amongst its umpteen characters indeed introduced the long-running Jack and Victor to the viewer. For my money though, they're not even in the top 10 of the numerous comedy creations that Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill foist on us here.I suppose it is fair to say that all non-Scots should abandon hope and not enter here, not only as they're unlikely to understand the plain-talking broad Scottish accents on show, never mind share much sense of identity with the characters displayed. There's no doubt though that for me and most of my fellow countrymen and women, it was a riotous, must-watch show, employing catch-phrases which are still recalled today like "Gonnae no dae that", "Good guy / w*#k", "I'm on the night shift", "M'oan the fishes", "Taxi for Saracen Street", "Ya couple of f*nnies", "Individual fruit trifle" "I smell sh*te" and loads more.I grew up in Dennistoun, a district of Glasgow, like Ford Kiernan, almost at the same time as him in fact so I particularly get the Glasgow strain to much of the humour. Of course there were occasional misses, for example the too-crude lifeboat sketches, but as for the rest, they're laugh-out-loud funny and as humorous to watch today as when first aired. Just from memory, my favourite characters would comprise "The Big Man", inept actor Ronald De Villiers, Rab McGlinchey interpreting for the Neds, the work-shy painter and decorators, Big Jock, the golf club bore and the forever-fleeing party-girl doing the walk of shame. Favourite sketches, well how about the Tayside "Star Trek" ("Phasers to Malky!"), "Do you come for the bounce?" and the substitute court-room sketch artist amongst many others.Kiernan and Hemphill take most of the parts in various guises, ably supported by Karen Dunbar and it's all great knockabout stuff. There are so many really funny characters and situations here that could maybe have been developed further that I think it's something of a shame that the F and G pair locked onto the Jack and Victor characters ever since at the exclusion of some of the gems here.

sadjlm Just got turned on to Chewin the fat. Absolutely brilliant Glaswegian comedy. Burned through every Still Game episodes and found this precursor. Though not from Scotland, having been multiples of times to Bonhill and Islay, found this one piece that made it all make sense. Laugh out loud comedy, crude or not. For those with tender mercies on their sleeves, leave this be. For others, like me, who found the comedic locale of Glasgow forbidding and hilarious, this hit the spot. Indeed, not for everyone. Yet, if you want to peer into the Glaswegian wit and lack of sensibility, this is the ticket. Give it a go if you have the patience for not so mainline sketch comedy. Worth every minute.

Grant Stab Personally, I think that part of the genius of Chewin' the Fat is that it doesn't need to be prestigious or live up to any kind of predecessor to be quality entertainment.There're countless jokes in the show which can simply be described as plainly silly, but its this naïvety and disregard for intellect makes these sketches hysterical on even the most primitive of levels.Chewin' the Fat is more orientated (and, indeed, is prone to subjectiveness) around the Glasgow way of life as opposed to that of Scotland in general; hence it's likely to appeal to an even more limited audience than anticipated.It's unjust to write of this show as a failure to amuse due to its skin-deep lack of precision, but this programme has mair baws than is widely concievable because the creators were aware that it didn't need to live up to any bygone acts.Top-notch; just don't watch it too many times :)

eeax2 Like so may other sketch shows before it this one is spotty. When its good then it is very good and I wiped many a tear away watching it. But I also just sat there a lot waiting for something funny and often even thru an entire show there was nothing. Compared to other sketch shows like Saturday Night Live and Python and Dave Chappelle it has about the same hit-miss ratio but only occasionally does it do anything new whereas the aforementioned have all broken their own particular patches of fresh ground. I like the way they kept the thick Scottish accents tho'. I think that made the jokes all the more rewarding when I could understand them. Definitely not for everybody, but I did manage to find a bunch of downloads out there about 18 months back.