The Inbetweeners Movie

Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie opened in the UK in August 2011 and grossed over £45 million at the British box office in its opening run — making it at the time the highest-grossing British comedy film ever made and the third-highest-grossing British film overall in 2011, after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and The King's Speech. The film won Best Comedy at the British Comedy Awards 2011 and the Empire Award for Best Comedy 2012; it was nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Film 2012.

The film is the cinematic continuation of the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, created by Iain Morris and Damon Beesley and broadcast on Channel 4's youth strand from 2008 to 2010 across three series and eighteen episodes. The original cast — Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison — return for the film, all four having been cast in 2007 when none had previously held a major screen role. The film was written by Morris and Beesley and directed by Palmer, who had directed multiple episodes of the television series.

The Greek sequences were shot largely in Magaluf in Mallorca rather than in Crete (despite the fictional setting in Malia) for production-cost reasons. A 2014 sequel — The Inbetweeners 2, set in Australia — was directed by Morris and Beesley themselves, opened to similar commercial success but more divided reviews, and effectively closed the property. The original four leads have since worked extensively in British television comedy across separate productions; Bird in Friday Night Dinner and Such Brave Girls, Thomas in Fresh Meat, Buckley in White Gold and Harrison in The Bay and Three Pines.