Dealing with the lives and loves of five British university students in the fifteen years after graduation, Up on the Roof attempts to be a bittersweet comedy about the disillusionment of maturity in the style of Peter's Friends. However, this lame and derivative saga falls down on almost every front. The characters fail to engage the emotions, the styling is badly researched (headbands and love beads in 1979 ???), the script is unfunny and the direction unfocused and meandering. This is British film-making at its amateurish worst.
