Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

craig-hopton A gentle comedy drama about a Greek family living in London who go from rags to riches and learn what is really important in life.It's not exactly an original idea but it's performed by a good cast of actors whom it is easy to warm to.It's impossible to dislike the Papadopoulos family. There's the two estranged brothers Harry and Spiros who have to work through their differences, and then there's the three children, of which the star is Theo, played by Thomas Underhill.Theo is a child genius who wears a bright bow-tie, likes to trade on the stock market in his spare time and gets all the best lines. This would be a poorer movie without him.The actual plot is rather predictable. Harry loses his fortune and even when he has the chance to get it back, learns to prioritise his family and his roots. His high-flying accountant is a cliché of a greedy banker. And of course there's a pretty love interest.Papadopoulos & Sons is not an exceptional movie but it's warmhearted and easy to watch.

pollythras After following the film's journey via twitter, right the way through to the cinema release, I finally saw this when it was released in London with family and friends.I had been anticipating seeing this film before it even finished filming. It most definitely lived up to my expectations! Papa&Sons is such a sweet, funny movie with a fantastic cast! Great feel good film, I laughed, I cried, I laughed again and left the cinema with a big smile on my face really well written and made. Definitely something I'd watch again and again and AGAIN!! Look forward to watching it with my Greek Cypriot parents next time they are in the UK as it's soon out on DVD whoo-hoo! Great job Marcus Markou and one up for the independent film maker!!!!!

cinematic_aficionado Despite not being anywhere near the league of great film, still it is one of the better British films of recent times, in the sense that we get to escape from the council estates and the thugs they supposedly breed as well as the horrible language that makes one wanting to have a shower after a screening.We follow the story of two brothers who migrated from Cyprus to England, one of whom became a millionaire and fully embraced the British ways whilst the other did not do so well and remained faithful to his routes and culture.There is real warmth conveyed in this film and the importance of family is never underestimated, again a non-entry in many British films. In a short space of time we undergo a journey of emotions, hopes, aspirations and sadness that is a part in an immigrant's life.A man goes from top to bottom and struggles to come to terms with the new reality of both the situation and the fact that he has to give up his ultra posh life and move to a lower middle class neighbourhood. Whilst we can rush to assume him as a snob, the truth is that he isn't; the issue he has is not so much encountering his brother and the old life, but the fact that as far as he was concerned all this was left behind him and simply moved on to a different place.Despite the presence of elements that could potentially have made this a gem of a film, somehow it is rather corny (or simply not aimed high enough) and that reduces it to a warming, charming family comedy.

Kaoru Sato I was invited to a preview screening of Papadopoulos & Sons and went without any expectations one way or the other. The narrative is deceptively simple but hides a surprising number of subtexts that reveal themselves through the compact running time. One one level, it's a straightforward recession era story of a family's struggle in dramatically reduced economic circumstances. The Greek diaspora background adds poignancy given that country's particularly fragile position within the economic crisis, but also adds a more mythological framework as a particularly ancient Greek style familial tragicomedy plays out with an onlooking comic chorus of London types from Kebab shop owners to asset stripping loss adjusters.Deep down it is a warm hearted and unashamedly sentimental British family drama, albeit distinctively shot through with a Mediterranean sense of fable. A likable ensemble cast and an unobtrusive camera guide you through with a smile on your face.