Three miscreant teenagers, joined by a well-behaved fourth, are taken by their teacher to the Hinghlands to complete the Duke of Edinburgh Award challenge of a two-day trek. They immediately prove utterly clueless in the wilderness environment and things get a lot worse very quickly when a toff in a mask starts hunting them as 'vermin to be culled' with a rifle. In their flight they come across local farmers who improbably declare the boy with rapper aspirations a star and help them chase off the murderous aristocrats.
Plenty of hash and magic mushrooms are consumed along the way, resulting in long tripped-out sequences and the local police, only after a notorious bread thief, have little inkling of what's actually going on. The humour and class satire are broad, to put it mildly, but its total irreverence just about saves it from being utterly disposable, as does Eddie Izzard's OTT performance as the psycho duke with the gun. It's unsophisticated but trashily diverting fare.
5/10
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