Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

 

My first reaction was: "that's impossible". My second reaction was - how could it possibly be a romantic comedy?  

 

It isn’t an earth shatterer by any means, and a harsh critic would say that it is only  pale imitation of something like “Love Actually”, but for me, it was a  gentle and entertaining “romcom” with strong and believable, down to earth characters and a nice environmental story about a slightly cooky Arabian sheikh who wants to do something ever so slightly impossible –yes, introduce salmon fishing into the inhospitable desert environment of the Yemen.  
 

It has a happy ending after a bit of heartbreak, and there is a bit of gentle politics too – a bit sized portion of Dave Cameron’s corny but well meaning  “Big Society”, all put across in a much better way than Comedy Dave could ever dream of doing. 
 

Sure, it keeps things simple and goes out of its way not to offend anyone, but hey, it’s good clean fun and does a good job of showing life in a drab civil service office and how it can be better. 
 

Don’t believe what the paper says –go and see it, it’s good, clean, gentle fun.