The Irish can be very funny- check out "The Guard"

There is a very funny Irish movie playing at Railroad Square Cinema in Waterville right now that has my husband and I still laughing at character lines and scenes three days after seeing it. The Guard is an action/mystery movie which plays on all the audience's expectations of that genre with satire and surprises from beginning to end. From the lieutenant hero (Brendan Gleeson) that you want to like but who acts really rude, spending weekends with prostitutes and insulting a black American FBI agent (Don Cheedle), to the drug dealers quoting Nietzche and Dylan Thomas and fussing about the poor quality of associates they work with, the audience loved the anomalies of characters. The first time director John Michael McDonagh gives viewers the mystery of a murder in Connemara and an impending drug smuggling operation, meanwhile poking fun at the conventions of the suave detective, the dedicated police force and the impenetrable criminals. Well worth a trip to Waterville and you can brush up on your Gaelic at the same time.