Billy Elliot

Pros: Hilarious, highly touching, moving and superbly put together.
Cons: The National Express advertising...!

Everyone must see this movie. It is clear that such a comprehensively perfect movie has not been made for a long time - I am a critical movie watcher but I honestly could not criticize Billy Elliot in any way. It is heart breaking, tear jerking and...

Pros: The dancing is phenomenal!
Cons: A lot of the dialogue is hard to understand

Billy Elliot was born to dance. Trouble is, his tough coal miner father and older brother feel dancing's for "poofs" and boxing is the real man's sport. While the miners are on strike and staging protests, Billy is left to care for his slightly...

Pros: One of the most entertaining films of the year.
Cons: None

Billy Elliot has everything a true crowd-pleaser should have. It has an incredibly likable and charismatic protagonist, a sympathetic antagonist, great suspense, moments of high hilarity, and an adventurous spirit that I found positively dazzling. If...

Pros: uplifting, fun, great music and dancing
Cons: heavy foul language

"Ballet!?" the father says incredulously.
"What's wrong with ballet?" Billy asks innocently.

Billy Elliot is eleven years old and wants to be a ballet dancer. The problem is that his father and brother are dead against...

Pros: extraordinary filmmaking overall
Cons: none

Breathtaking. "Billy Elliot" is a film that is carved purely of passion, flair and integrity. Crafted with a deliberacy so intent, there is no separation between the intensity felt on screen and that within the audience's hearts.

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Pros: Great performances, moving story
Cons: None

I LOVED this movie.

Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an eleven year old growing up in an economically depressed town in the North of England. The town is built around the coal mines, coal mines that are currently idle because the workers are on...

Pros: Good story, characters, emotional
Cons: Difficulty understanding some dialect

Billy Elliott is an 11-year old motherless boy living in the colorless, loveless and poor environment of an English mining town where the miners are striking. His father is an angry and domineering man, and his older brother just ignores him or picks on...

Pros: Young Jamie Bell gives a winning performance.
Cons: The finale is a little lackluster.

(Dir: Stephen Daldry, Starring Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jean Haywood, Stuart Wells, Nicola Blackwell, Mike Elliot, Billy Fane, Colin MacLachlan, Joe Renton, and Janine Birkett)

For Billy Elliot the world is not a...

Pros: beautiful filming, great actors
Cons: rough language, consistent with environment

Billy Elliot is one of the most charming and all-inclusive movies this year. The writer/director has created a piece full of life, humor, drama, and morals, which disspells stereotypes and addresses the art of self-expression.

Not only is...

Pros: wonderful acting and setting for a fairy tale
Cons: a bit heartwarming, but cynics may find themselves overcome.

Billy Elliott is a lovely British film from first-time film director Stephen Daldry. Set during the coal miners' strike in England in 1984, Billy Elliott follows an awkward 11-year-old's quest to be a ballet dancer, despite the working class world he...

Pros: Fantastic dancing sequences
Cons: Too much foul language

The film is based in the North East of England, where I live, and some of the film was shot near where I actually work (the Transporter Bridge in Middlesbrough). I was therefore very interested in seeing how realistic they had made the film.

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Pros: Everything about it, especially young Jamie Bell
Cons: the accent is thick, Julie Walters needs more screentime

Movies like "Rocky" and " Chariots of Fire" where the lead character is an athlete trying to overcome
obstacles both physical and personal, there's a sense of communication between the character and the audience.
We become both the outside...

Pros: Heartwarming and Fun
Cons: Formulaic at times

After seeing the previews for this little film we couldn't wait to view it. It seemed a wonderful and uplifting film of a young man pursuing his own talents and interests without regard for stereotypes and bluster.

The young Mr. Elliot is a...

Pros: Beautiful Film and story
Cons: dialect hard to understand at times

How, I wondered, could Billy Elliot be compared to The Full Monty and Brassed Off? After all one film deals with a boy who wants to dance, another with men who decide to bare all, and the other with a bunch of dysfunctional band members. But there are...

Pros: This movie really makes you feel good when you leave
Cons: Not everyone wants to leave a movie happy; there is no philosophical debate covered in the film

Billy Elliot is a story about life in a gritty English coal mining town. The town during the length of the story is experiencing a Coal workers strike. And out of this strike covered with a haze of grey and black comes the unsullied heart of a...