“Submarine” is an eccentric coming-of-age comedy from Britain, that rare teen comedy where the kids aren’t gorgeous, the hero isn’t heroic and the object of desire has a lot of reasons why she isn’t necessarily desirable.
And no, it has little or nothing to do with submarines.
Actor (“The IT Crowd”) turned writer-director Richard Ayoade’s film of Joe Dunthorne’s novel leans heavily — a bit too heavily — on “quirky” as we explore the self-important autobiography of young wordsmith Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a teenager who informs we “Americans,” in an opening credit, that “Submarine; is an important film” which we should treat “with respect.”
