The Jesus Rolls In cinemas on Friday

IF you’ve spent the last 22 years hankering for a Big Lebowski sequel you may be prepared to settle for this spin-off.

Sadly, this raunchy adventure for “The Dude’s” bowling nemesis Jesus definitely isn’t the second coming.

The film is written and directed by actor John Turturro with the Coen Brothers’ blessing.

Turturro gets the ball rolling by putting the Gypsy Kings in a cell to serenade Jesus as his makes his walk to freedom.

As in the Big Lebowski, he has served a stretch for sexual offences.

In a farewell chat with Christopher Walken’s warden, we learn this was a result of an over-reaction from the father of an eight-year-old boy who foolishly tried to chat with him at a urinal. He’s met at the gates by fellow parolee Petey (Bobby Cannavale) and they steal a muscle car from a vain hairdresser (Jon Hamm) and pay a visit to Jesus’ elderly prostitute mum (Sonia Braga). Jesus’ voice and exaggerated mannerism are still funny, but by now we’re waiting for the plot. When the pair of rogues team up with sexually frustrated Marie (Audrey Tautou) it turns out he has decided to re-hash an old Gérard Depardieu sex comedy.

That movie, 1974’s Les Valseuses, had a pair of sexually adventurous 20-somethings in the driving seat and feels an odd fit for two grizzled, middleaged jailbirds.

I lost interest when Jesus made a pass at Petey and they enjoyed a night of passion with mad Marie. Susan Sarandon perks things up with a late cameo, but the Coens’ wit is sorely missing.