Andrew Scott’s The Stag / The Bachelor Weekend
Movie Review: The Stag (The Bachelor Weekend in the U.S.)
In this Irish comedy, Andrew Scott plays Davin, a Best Man forced to take his friend, Fionnan, on a stag weekend before his wedding. They end up taking along Fionnan’s gay brother (played by the super hot Michael Legge) and his lover, as well as another friend (played by Brian Gleeson), and the ultra-hardcore brother-in-law (nicknamed “The Machine”). All sorts of shenanigans ensue, starting with the guys getting stuck in a tent…in the forest display of a sporting goods store. And Andrew has a hilarious phone call scene in which he tries to dissuade The Machine from coming: “This weekend, we are embarking on a silent walking retreat with some transsexual friends of ours in the rain….It will be wet and silent and boring and weird.”
The premise is the same as the Hangover films, but there the similarities end. Instead of exploring Vegas, in this movie six men unsuited to the outdoors go on a wilderness adventure and explore hidden secrets and what it means to be alive and in love. It actually reminds me much more strongly of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Third Star, just without the tragic terminal cancer element. The Machine teaches the other guys about being more “manly,” but what makes this movie really stand out is that the other five end up educating him on the softer side of being a man.
Plus, you get to hear Andrew Scott sing a lovely Irish ballad (“Raglan Road”) and get naked in the woods, hell yeah!
More Andrew Scott reviews here.
In this Irish comedy, Andrew Scott plays Davin, a Best Man forced to take his friend, Fionnan, on a stag weekend before his wedding. They end up taking along Fionnan’s gay brother (played by the super hot Michael Legge) and his lover, as well as another friend (played by Brian Gleeson), and the ultra-hardcore brother-in-law (nicknamed “The Machine”). All sorts of shenanigans ensue, starting with the guys getting stuck in a tent…in the forest display of a sporting goods store. And Andrew has a hilarious phone call scene in which he tries to dissuade The Machine from coming: “This weekend, we are embarking on a silent walking retreat with some transsexual friends of ours in the rain….It will be wet and silent and boring and weird.”
The premise is the same as the Hangover films, but there the similarities end. Instead of exploring Vegas, in this movie six men unsuited to the outdoors go on a wilderness adventure and explore hidden secrets and what it means to be alive and in love. It actually reminds me much more strongly of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Third Star, just without the tragic terminal cancer element. The Machine teaches the other guys about being more “manly,” but what makes this movie really stand out is that the other five end up educating him on the softer side of being a man.
Plus, you get to hear Andrew Scott sing a lovely Irish ballad (“Raglan Road”) and get naked in the woods, hell yeah!
More Andrew Scott reviews here.