Pros: excellent story, great acting, terrific soundtrack Cons: can be hard for U.S. audiences to understand at times
I finally managed to view this excellent film this past week after having intended to view it several times now. It’s a terrific story of a young man’s journey to find his place in this world. Billy Elliot (portrayed by Jamie Bell) is a young ...
I saw “Billy Elliot” in a theater last fall and again last week, with its language bowderlized on an American Airlines flight (no doubt this is the version available at Blockbuster). The first time, I was swept away by memories of my own adolescent...
Pros: Engaging story, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters Cons: Subject material is familiar
Could it be that the British have a soft spot in their hearts for popular American films of a previous generation? At the end of this summer, they gave us Saving Grace, a comedy that seems to have been inspired, in part, by the Cheech and Chong...
Pros: Good story. Great acting. Excellent camera and audio execution. Cons: Do we have a tranlationist in the house?
I’m a fool for dance flicks, so when I read the back cover for Billy Elliot and saw that it revolved around a ballet theme, I checked it out with my free BlockBuster ticket. Initially, I thought I might badger my boys into watching the film and...
Pros: Excellent acting and the dancing and music superb Cons: nothing worth noting
I saw Billy Elliot years ago when it first hit the cinema. In the past year the story went to the stage in England and has now opened here on NYs Broadway to rave reviews. The music in the play Billy Elliot was written by Elton John, another ...
Pros: Exuberant dancing; strong performance; feel-good story; true to time and place; excellent cinematography and sound Cons: Ridiculous R-rating limits access to this film for its most natural audience (11-17 year-olds)
Stephen Daldry is certainly a director about whom we will be hearing a great deal in the years ahead. With two outstanding successes in his first two feature films, Billy Elliot (2000) and The Hours (2001), his future film work will be ...
Pros: This is a tap-happy film about self-discovery, fatherhood and Rising Above It All. Cons: The thick accents make it fookin' hard to understand some dialogue.
There’s a classic moment in Singin’ in the Rain when Gene Kelly comes to a standstill, spreads his arms, gets an orgasmic grin on his face and sings, “Gotta dance! Got-ta dance!”
Eleven-year-old Billy Elliot has that same kind of...
Pros: Started off good... Cons: Terrible characters, the ugliness of it all.
When I first began to watch Billy Elliot, I was expecting to see an uplifting, touching film. I was expecting it to have every cliche in the book, but I thought it would perhaps touch me. The last thing I was expecting, was too see a film...
Pros: "A Town Called Malice" Cons: A striking mining town called "hackneyed"
When we watch a movie, we usually slide from the previews to a studio promotion or advertisement of some sort and then to the music--whatever it is--that opens the feature presentation we have come to see. More often than not, we encounter pop songs...
Billy Elliot is the sleeper of the season. A foreign film entrant into the season of elections, Billy Elliot will win your vote. Billy (Jamie Bell) is the younger son of a blue collar worker. He is motherless and lives in a poor English suburb. Dad...
Pros: Outstanding performances, and a less conventional telling of a somewhat conventional tale Cons: At it's heart, it is a formula film.
Liking Billy Elliot was the last thing I wanted to do. (Okay, in the interest of full disclosure, the actual last thing I really want to do is to sit in a locked room with Carol Channing, Gilbert Godfried and Tom Green, while...
Pros: Inspiring, encouraging, uplifting. Cons: Dialogue difficult to understand at times, and profanity
The son of a widower coalminer, Billy Elliot wants to be a dancer.
Frankly I didn’t know what to expect with this movie. Also, the fact that I had encouraged my husband to come along, I knew I might end up feeling some guilt if the movie...
Pros: Excellent performances, appealing story Cons: Some unrealistic elements and off-camera changes
This movie was so hyped that we couldn't NOT see it. So we did.
I left the theater feeling quite frustrated. All the performances were wonderful, but one of the characters made such an astounding turn-around halfway through that it simply...
Pros: Heartwarming, triumphant Irish flick... Cons: Didn't get the credit due Stateside...
This one got trashed by critics for the same reason I think almost every UK flick coming down the pike gets a thumbs-down: Yank audiences don’t have the time or inclination to interpret the accents of the dialogue. If you don’t know what the movie’s...
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