HARRY Enfield has become something of an unofficial spokesperson on moody adolescents thanks to his alter ego Kevin The Teenager.

The monstrous character created for his hit TV show Harry Enfield and Chums struck a nerve with the nation's beleaguered parents.

Now the spotty-faced youth has been immortalised in Enfield's new movie Kevin & Perry Go Large.

The film, which also stars the wonderous Kathy Burke as Kevin's teenage friend Perry, Paul Whitehouse and Rhys Ifans, sees Kevin and his monosyllabic sidekick Perry heading off to Ibiza in search of sun, sea, sand and success with girls. Enfield is also hoping the film will reap a few rewards for him too.

"I know the critics won't like it but I'm very confident that if we get people into the cinema for the first few days word will spread," he says

Kevin and Perry's transition to the big screen came after Enfield looked at the success of Hollywood teen movies.

"People were always saying 'are you going to do a film with any of your characters' and I thought the only ones appropriate were Kevin and Perry because there was a precedent with Bill and Ted and Wayne's World.

"There were loads of other teen rites-of-passage films so I thought we could do the whole lot at once. I also thought let's get out of the country and go to Ibiza, it's different."

But though he was inspired by Hollywood movies, Enfield concedes American audiences probably won't welcome the terrible twosome with open arms.

"There was a bit of pressure to have kind of Hollywood-style babes but it's one of the things which, having looked at all of these films, they tend to drag a bit," he says.

"I thought if we had total Hollywood babes it would look ridiculous them getting off with Kevin and Perry, so we went a different way, the gross-out route," he grins. "God knows what they'll think of it."