The film concerns the sexual antics of a group of potato delivery men in Birmingham and stars Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook.

He meets up with his friend, Ferris, and the pair drive around Birmingham, attempting to find sexual partners and sell potatoes.

It also diminishes the reputation of many excellent TV comics, who are made to look tawdry and naff up there on the big screen in an echoing cinema".

[6] Ben Davis in the Morning Star later included Sex Lives of the Potato Men on his list of some of the year's worst films.

Hostile critics include Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian,[10] and the BBC's Mark Kermode, who described the film as "absolutely, indescribably horrible, vulgar, stupid, tawdry, depressing, embarrassing, filthy, vile, stinky, repugnant, slimy, unclean, nasty, degenerative and mind-numbing".