West Is West is the follow-up to the 1999 film East Is East, even though everyone should have left well alone and busied themselves elsewhere. Didn’t they have curtains to hang, or cars to MOT, or kids to ferry between guitar and football and judo and extra maths? (Honestly, kids today; why can’t they stay in and play more computer games?)
This film has no real purpose in and of itself, or none that I can think of, and simply exploits what residual affection you might have for the original.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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