Wildly imaginative Welsh teen Oliver (Craig Roberts) plots to lose his virginity to a sly, morose girl (Yasmin Paige) and frets about his nerdy dad (Noah Taylor) and pinched, resentful mom (Sally Hawkins). Submarine has mood fluency and neat observations, but director-writer Richard Ayoade often falls back on flashy technique. The depressing aspect of this latest zit-pop of adolescent angst is that Hawkins, involving and alive in Happy-Go-Lucky, plays a drab twit, and Taylor, remarkable as young Hitler in Max, is even duller. (2011) — David Elliott
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