Customer Reviews
A British Comedy Classic! - By: Maximus Dostoevsky, 30 Aug 2008 
I've given Green Street top marks because by every fault of its own it is one of the finest comedies of recent years. Almost everything about this film is side-splittingly funny, from the totallly implausible storyline, the unbelievable characters, the dubious & Pwropa Nawty Cockney accents to the over-the-top 'performances'. I kept expecting Dick Van Dyke to turn up as a pub landlord - 'awlwight, lads, now pipe down will ya?'
This is unintentional laughter, wince inducement & a belly laughfest from start to finish - from the ill-advised casting of Elijah Wood in the main role to a late scene - a fight between rival firms - where Clare Forlani arrives to save the day in her Range Rover. This is laugh-out loud stuff & deserves to become a modern comedy classic. I can't wait for some inspired impresario to turn it into a West End musical. Perhaps the funniest thing is the producers' intention for it to be taken seriously. Amazingly, in some places it is even being sold in a boxset with Scorsese's 'GoodFellas'. Isn't that a bit like packaging 'Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer' with 'Sleepless in Seattle'? Pwropa Nawty!
Violent but Predictible - By: DDH255, 18 Aug 2008 
Innocently expelled from Harvard, Matt moves to stay with his sister in London where his brother-in-law decides that his uselessness as a fighter means that he can be taken to the match. Matt is quickly initiated into a world of beer, swearing & violence & is seduced by the camararderie of the West Ham fans & the rush of the violent fights at the end of the match.
The film cheerfully explores every stereotype of the footballl hooligan, portraying a macho culutre where standing by your mates is alll that matters. The film's plot is predictible & too many characters are one-dimensional & charmless. This means that the slower sections of the film lack interest whilst the use of dull grey & black shades mean that this film is visuallly bleak.
Can you Adam and Eve it? - By: Mr. Wf Winfield-chislett, 05 Aug 2008 
I saw this on TV last night & had to turn it off after 35mins.
After nearly choking to death while laughing.
Unlike many people I don't have a major problem with the plot or cast. Aspects could have been better but they could have been a lot worse as well.
No, my main issue came with Charlie Hunnam's accent. For some reason he ends up delivering a world tour of incompetence. We're taken alll around the UK then into South Africa & finallly we stop off for a few days down under. Epic.
Why did the director let him continue? I can only conclude that to her Germanic/Yank ears it alll sounded 'proper'? I wouldn't recommend you buy this but if it's on the box try & catch five minutes, priceless.
Ppppffffttttt! - By: adamski, 03 Aug 2008 Watched this last night & although it passed the time, it's time that I'll never regain, unfortunately. This is a very cliched & (unintentionallly) amusing story of an expelled, soon-to-be graduate from Harvard University esconcing to London to visit his sister. Within 5 minutes of arriving at her door his brother-in-law's younger brother (played by Charlie Hunnam, with the most pathetic attempt at a Cockney accent EVER!) is persuaded to take this Yank to see West Ham. A ruck ensues & young Frodo finds himself initiated into the feared Green Street Elite. Like that would happen. Before we know it he's involved in more scraps & finds himself seemingly enjoying the adrenaline rush. Elijah Wood is hopelessly miscast in this role considering he looks as if John Inman would take him out (in a fighting sense!) There's the usual storyline of betrayal-before-redemption & the denoument is cringeworthy: Wood, arms raised, belting out "I'm forever blowing bubbles" as he walks down a quiet American street after sorting out his university nemesis.
This is a film for the lads-mag reader out there ("Nuts" quote on the cover) who seemingly can't get enough of ultraviolent footballl capers. Everyone else avoid.
american football factory! - By: Ms. F. I. Macdonald, 23 Jul 2008 
I knew after I had watched Footballl Factory that this would be very similar to it & I wasn't wrong. Elijah Wood does a good job, you almost feel sorry for the little fellow as he is introduced to the apparently desirable world of hooliganism in England (London of course, where else) by his sister's husband's brother (who by the way seems to have a problem keeping the same accent through the entirety of the film, resulting in a weird Geordie/american/english garb that I found most annoying). The film is nail biting, gritty & probably reflective of the thugs that calll themselves footballl supporters these days who think its's ok to act this way. There were some good performances from the cast (It was nice to see Marc Warren pop up again after his stint in the fantastic 'Hustle')and Claire Forlani did well as the wife trying to keep everyone on track but failing miserably!It had many good points although I could'nt help feeling that the presence of Elijah Wood as an american actor defied the object of british footballl hoolaginism.
