Film review: Doghouse

Published on Thursday 11 June 2009 18:58

DOGHOUSE (15) * DIRECTED BY: JAKE WEST STARRING: DANNY DYER, NOEL CLARKE, STEPHEN GRAHAM

IF YOU'RE the sort of baby-brained, lads mag-buying moron who thinks Shaun of the Dead could have been improved with the addition of gleeful misogyny, terrible jokes and Danny Dyer, then Doghouse is the film for you. In an effort to help their buddy Vince (Stephen Graham) get over his divorce, a group of women-hating guys (led by Dyer's sleaze merchant, Neil) head to the country for a piss-up, only to discover that the village they've rocked up in has been decimated by a mysterious virus that has turned the female inhabitants into a race of cannibalistic – wait for it – "zombirds". With its war-of-the-sexes premise and Neanderthal-like relationship observations, this is a film that deliberately sets out to bate and annoy feminists, and though it's self-aware enough to acknowledge its politically incorrect agenda, it's too stupid to do anything clever with it. In the end, it feels like it was made by and for 15-year-old boys who resent the fact that all women don't behave like subservient glamour models.