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Having made the Welsh look bad in the repugnantly juvenile Twin Town, director Kevin Allen has now moved on to the unfortunate Scottish, with the misguided help of writer/star Craig Ferguson. This decidedly average tale of Hollywood, hair and coping in the face of adversity sees Ferguson, the plucky Scot, taking on the US of A... And if you can't guess the outcome, then you don't know your movie clichés well enough.
Of course, the fact that you can foresee the ending doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to shove disbelief out the fire exit for a few hours - - but there's no attempt to create a sense of suspense in The Big Tease. Ferguson's script is stuffed with just about every overused dramaticand comic device you can think of - Crawford is a hairdresser, therefore he's gay. He's gay, therefore he's flamboyant... You get the idea. In fact, the only surprise is that the finalé is far more preposterous than you could ever have imagined.
What tries so painfully hard to be a lightly comic feelgood flick will fail to make you feel anything, except perhaps boredom. With all the comic thrust of an ITV sitcom, The Big Tease amounts to little more than a big let-down.
