louis_jordan
This movie is just a fun watch. It's not trying to shock you every 2 minutes and it isn't full of profanity. This movie doesn't get the credit for being as entertaining as it is. Great watch and funny, uplifting and basically enjoyable.
SnoopyStyle
Charles Price (Joel Edgerton) learned the family men's shoe business from his father in the four generations Northampton business. Charles and his girlfriend Nicola (Jemima Rooper) are moving to London when his father passes away. He is forced to take over and discovers the business is going under. On one drunken night, he tries to come to the rescue of drag queen Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor). He rehires worker Lauren (Sarah-Jane Potts) and takes on Lola as a designer for a new line of shoes for cross-dressing men. Workers like Don (Nick Frost) are bitter about the new work and their new co-worker Lola.Chiwetel Ejiofor is wonderful. Joel Edgerton is a bit too bland. I would rather have him be a conservative guy rather than a middle of the road character. Everybody is solid. The movie seems to be ginning up some conservative backlash in the workers. It feels out of date. The money issue would be the more compelling drama. This is a functional feel-good movie with a couple of great heart-warming moments.
Don Muvo
This movie takes place primarily in two sets, a drag night club and a shoe factory. The problem is, neither of these places is a very universally exciting place to be. I you absolutely loved your last visit to a drag night club, and Victor-Victoria is on your top movies of all time list, by all means this film is a must-see, especially for the fine work of Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays "Lola". The theme that appears repeatedly is lovely too, acceptance. Nevertheless, I have to say that the movie plods along sadly between the characters and unattractive sets, and never really catches fire, despite the drag dance numbers. The other main character Charlie, is played just a bit too drab and dumb for me, maybe its the non-britness of me, or the aussieness of the actor - I don't know. It's obvious that the movie needed a strong counter-character to Lola ("the best of both sexes"), and didn't get it in Joel Edgerton. I want to improve my rating, but the boring aspect of this movie pandering to our best instincts prevents me from doing so, and the movie really bombed with my family, not just with me.Another reviewer mentioned a connection with "The Full Monty" - if you liked that film, there is a relationship there, but in The Full Monty, the characters are actually trying to put an enterprise together, while the characters in this show are spending too much time working at cross-purposes and going in different directions. Perhaps that is meant to be symbolic of what the conflict between transvestites vs. non-transvestites is. In the end, it is only acceptance that allows the two sides to come together.
Jackson Booth-Millard
I mainly knew this film because of the black actor that appears in Love Actually and the best friend of Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz. Besides that, only other thing I knew was the black actor was playing a drag queen, I didn't know it was based on a true story. Basically Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) inherits his father's shoe business, Prince & Son's, and his factory, which is failing. One night, by chance, he meets drag queen cabaret singer Lola (Golden Globe nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor) who complains about inadequate footwear for her work, which, along with his friend and ex-worker Lauren (Sugar Rush's Sarah-Jane Potts) inspire him to create men's fetish footwear. Of course Lola is intrigued, but Charlie does have prejudice from the staff, but Charlie keeps trying to save his business, and it eventually helps take his work to modelling show. Also starring Linda Bassett as Mel, The Famous Five's Jemima Rooper as Nicola, Nick Frost as Don, Ewan Hooper as George, Robert Pugh as Harold Price and Geoffrey Streatfield as Richard Bailey. It may not have been one the funniest comedy film, but the story has good elements to it, and Ejiofor does do a good job. Worth watching!
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