DVD REVIEW: My Brothers, new on DVD, (15), (90 mins).

By The Newsroom
Published 7th Nov 2012, 19:01 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:42 BST
My Brothers is a film which labours under the misapprehension that somehow quirky Irishness will always be enough.

Here, it painfully isn’t in a turgid end-of-life road-movie which has three young brothers setting off to find a replacement watch for their dying father.

Noel (Timmy Creed), the oldest of the three, took the watch for safekeeping and is distraught when it is broken beyond repair in a fight. With a broken hand (and therefore unable to change gears), he drags in middle brother 11-year-old Paudie (Paul Courtney) as his co-pilot for their trek to Ballybunion amusement park in a nicked bakery van.

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Little Scwally (T J Griffin) – obsessed with Star Wars films he has never seen – is allowed to tag along so he won’t tell on his brothers, and off they go, running into motley oddbods and even a pervert along the way.