roddy doyle barrytown trilogy be an affectionate and humorous but unsentimental look at life in the poor suburb of dublin while all three book have now be turn into film . the commitment and direct by alan parker and be virtually a musical while in the original and doyle hilariously pepper his text with fragment of the lyric of the song his protagonist ( a soul band ) be sing while in the film and the song be play straight and and pretty much in their entirety and and some of the subtlety of the plot be also lose . stephen frears do well in make a low key film of book two and and be also at the directorial helm for this film of the final book . the van represent a slight change of direction for doyle and a weighter piece of fiction than his early effort while but it still fun and and a sensitive portrait of male friendship . however and i do not like the film very much and even though it be quite faithful to the book in both content and tone while for in spite of this and it have lose the spark and and the vision and that the writing possess and and appear coarse and clumsy in comparison . an eric clapton score be use insensitively and underscoring dialogue with unnecessary frequency while the acting ( especially from colm meaney ) render the character close to parody while the camera work be needlessly jumpy while while the plot be reduce to a series of set piece encounter . this be supposedly a naturalistic movie and but never manage to convey the rhythm of ordinary life . while judge a against other film that tell tale of work class survival and it have not the political anger of the work of ken loach and the emotional impact of brassed off or the jauntiness of the full monty . perhaps the most cruel cinematic comparison and however and bring to obvious attention by the prominent presence of a decrepit snack van and be with mike leigh life be sweet and a film whose originality and desperate humour make a stark contrast with the dull clichéd oirishisms on display here . conclusion represent read the book instead .