There is some amusement to be had from Dominic Burns's small-budget comedy. But not much. It tells the tale of Simon Phillips, a loser in love who gets lessons from Craig Conway's love guru and Martin Kemp's serial seducer.
Earlier on we see Richard E Grant, strangely cast as an even more long-term loser who, having once again been rejected, throws himself under a train.
Otherwise the film is bloodless, with a screenplay that makes caricatures of the participants and gives them jokey situations you can just about believe if you remember the more embarrassing male-female hesitations of youth.
A feelgood ending, equally unlikely, sends us away happy, largely that the film has ended, not with a bang but a whimper. It could have been much better with a sharper script.
How To Stop Being A Loser
Cert: 15
