
About 13 years on from his appearance in the documentary series The Office, a documentary film crew is once again following the life of David Brent. He is now working as a rep for cleaning goods distributor but still harbours dreams of making it big in the music business. Acting on this, he takes three weeks off work and tours with a new-look version of Foregone Conclusion, the band he was in in the 90s (he's the only remaining original member, for various reasons...).... (Full plot summary below)
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About 13 years on from his appearance in the documentary series The Office, a documentary film crew is once again following the life of David Brent. He is now working as a rep for cleaning goods distributor but still harbours dreams of making it big in the music business. Acting on this, he takes three weeks off work and tours with a new-look version of Foregone Conclusion, the band he was in in the 90s (he's the only remaining original member, for various reasons...).
Leave your thoughts about David Brent: Life on the Road.
| FILMINK (Australia)Roger Smith...you're in for an hour-and-a-half of Brent at his best. |
| Daily StarAndy LeaIt's hardly surprising Brent's first big-screen outing is, by far, the funniest movie of the year. But I didn't expect it to be one of the most heart-breaking too. |
| SlateWilla PaskinMaudlin and unrealistic, it's also a lot less funny than what came before. |
| Adelaide ReviewDavid 'Mad Dog' Bradley[The songs are] just bland and not terrible enough to be amusing. Or amusing enough to be amusing, come to that. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessThe film doesn't really do anything radical here; it sticks to the mock-doc format perfected by This is Spinal Tap, but it's funny in that cringe-inducing laugh-or-cry way that made The Office such a great show. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob Thomas[Ricky] Gervais seems to have forgotten what made Brent such a strangely captivating figure on the original show. |
| The VergeRich McCormickThe 90-minute runtime torpedoes any sympathy for the character viewers may still hold after more than a decade away. |
| Stuff.co.nzSarah WattWith four hearty laughs in the first two minutes, David Brent: Life on the Road starts with promise and goes on to be an immensely satisfying, sometimes uncomfortable, return to form. |
| ABC Radio (Australia)CJ JohnsonHysterically funny and desperately acute examination of one of mankind's greatest, and most universal, weaknesses ... Gervais is masterful at portraying the exactitude of life in the smaller towns of England ... his finest hour and a half as a director. |
| The Sun (UK)Jamie EastAlthough signposted a little more heavily than before, the jokes are as fast, relentless and shocking as we remember. |