'It was a total waste of an afternoon'

Film fans emerging from the UGC cinema in Glasgow yesterday were scrambling to find words barbed enough to describe the Sex Lives of the Potato Men.

A film and television student, Ryan Daly, 20, summarised: "It was a complete load of rubbish.

"The adverts for the film made it look very funny but I think that was just clever editing," he said. "The adverts were funnier than the film. It didn't make me laugh at all.

"There were a couple of slightly amusing one-liners but that is all.''

A fellow student, Rhuari Livingston, 19, from Glasgow complained: "Johnny Vegas is usually very funny but I don't think this film will do his career much good. It was a complete turkey, a total waste of an afternoon."

He added: "I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, it just wasn't funny."

However, the film did find a fan in Euan McLaren, 18, from Glasgow, who saw it by mistake. The student had gone to the cinema to see Scary Movie 3 but had walked into Sex Lives of the Potato Men instead.

"It was a very good laugh and I really enjoyed it," he said. "I hadn't really wanted to see it but I am glad I did."