This one is based on the true story of Britain's Got Talent winner, Paul Potts.
If you haven't heard of him, watch this clip to get a sense of his story but to cut a long story short, we're talking about a really nervous guy with dodgy teeth and one hell of a singing voice. Truly, watch the clip! I remember having it emailed to me back in the day. Remember when we had to email stuff like that around instead of sharing it on Facebook or Twitter? Ah, the good ol' days.
Anyway, according to this article in The Telegraph (UK), they've certainly taken some creative licence with the story, for what it's worth. You know, Hollywood-ed it up a bit.
One of the big draw cards on this one for me was the lead actor - James Corden who plays Smithy in Gavin & Stacey, possibly my favourite comedy TV show ever. He's great in this but not amazing. It's a pretty Smithy-esque performance to be honest.
The film is a nice one, easy to watch. It covers Paul's life leading up to the BGT performance and that's about where it ends, it doesn't give you a sense of what his life became after he won the show. It did drag a bit, felt longer than it actually was. Good but not great. Maybe wait for it on DVD.
Trailer here.
As an aside, I would like to make the following observation about the rather spectacular behaviour of a fellow patron in the cinema. She hobbled in on crutches with her leg in one of those long moon boot kind of things that goes right up your leg. She sat quietly through the trailers and ads and then WHEN THE FILM STARTED, she proceeded to tear apart the 385 pieces of lycra holding the leg brace on. Well it felt like 385, who knows how many there actually was. And you know why it felt like so many more than there was? You know what would be more annoying than someone swiftly undoing lycra all the way down their leg? SOMEONE DOING IT SLOWLY BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT WILL BE QUIETER AND BETTER. LADY, IT WAS NOT QUIETER OR BETTER, IT WAS SPECTACULARLY ANNOYING & YOU SHOULD TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT YOURSELF.
If you haven't heard of him, watch this clip to get a sense of his story but to cut a long story short, we're talking about a really nervous guy with dodgy teeth and one hell of a singing voice. Truly, watch the clip! I remember having it emailed to me back in the day. Remember when we had to email stuff like that around instead of sharing it on Facebook or Twitter? Ah, the good ol' days.
Anyway, according to this article in The Telegraph (UK), they've certainly taken some creative licence with the story, for what it's worth. You know, Hollywood-ed it up a bit.
One of the big draw cards on this one for me was the lead actor - James Corden who plays Smithy in Gavin & Stacey, possibly my favourite comedy TV show ever. He's great in this but not amazing. It's a pretty Smithy-esque performance to be honest.
The film is a nice one, easy to watch. It covers Paul's life leading up to the BGT performance and that's about where it ends, it doesn't give you a sense of what his life became after he won the show. It did drag a bit, felt longer than it actually was. Good but not great. Maybe wait for it on DVD.
Trailer here.
As an aside, I would like to make the following observation about the rather spectacular behaviour of a fellow patron in the cinema. She hobbled in on crutches with her leg in one of those long moon boot kind of things that goes right up your leg. She sat quietly through the trailers and ads and then WHEN THE FILM STARTED, she proceeded to tear apart the 385 pieces of lycra holding the leg brace on. Well it felt like 385, who knows how many there actually was. And you know why it felt like so many more than there was? You know what would be more annoying than someone swiftly undoing lycra all the way down their leg? SOMEONE DOING IT SLOWLY BECAUSE THEY THINK THAT WILL BE QUIETER AND BETTER. LADY, IT WAS NOT QUIETER OR BETTER, IT WAS SPECTACULARLY ANNOYING & YOU SHOULD TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT YOURSELF.