The Inbetweeners Movie reviews, although its later release in the United States was not as well received. It was a commercial success, setting the record for the biggest opening weekend for a comedy film in the UK. A sequel, "The Inbetweeners 2", was released on 6 August 2014. Teenage friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland have finished their A-levels and are about to leave Rudge Park Comprehensive, much to the relief of Mr. Gilbert, their sardonic head of sixth form. Within their final week of school, Jay's grandfather dies; Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Carli D'Amato; Neil has
Simon and Laura in what is now the time-honoured film sport of television baiting." In the "News of the World" Peter Burnup observed that ""Simon and Laura" may not turn out to be another "Genevieve" or "Doctor in the House" but all the same it has plenty of elegance and high spirits," adding, "I have no doubt the BBC will survive the good-humoured leg-pull." ""Simon and Laura" betrays in its style, method and presentation of sophisticated marital disharmony a diligent admiration for Mr [Noël] Coward's "Private Lives"," concluded Fred Majdalany in the "Daily Mail". "When he is just being himself Mr Melville is