STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits
A man moves with his wife/girlfriend??? up to London, but is immediately called back to his hometown of Northampton when his father pops his clogs to take care of the family business, a shoe manufacturing factory. But cheap commercialized rubbish has replaced the quality material his father used to produce and he is forced to make a number of redundancies. With the factory soon looking set to close altogether, things look very bleak indeed. Until a chance encounter with a transvestite named Lola makes him come up with the idea of producing a new form of footwear- kinky boots for transvestites! It is this idea that will take him all the way from the drudgery of working-town Northampton to the fashion catwalks of Milan.
We're becoming increasingly better at making this kind of film. And this is another success of this kind of film. What drives Kinky Boots probably more than anything else is the very engaging characters, primarily Lola, a well-spoken and believable drag queen persona with personal demons raging away beneath her. This is aside from the unoriginal but compelling character's of Charlie's girlfriend, his assistant and the traditional prejudiced workers who don't welcome Lola's presence too wonderfully. The rest of the film flows as a satisfying if unmemorable experience.
Trust me, if you don't think this is one of my best reviews, you should see my Calander Girls one. ***
A man moves with his wife/girlfriend??? up to London, but is immediately called back to his hometown of Northampton when his father pops his clogs to take care of the family business, a shoe manufacturing factory. But cheap commercialized rubbish has replaced the quality material his father used to produce and he is forced to make a number of redundancies. With the factory soon looking set to close altogether, things look very bleak indeed. Until a chance encounter with a transvestite named Lola makes him come up with the idea of producing a new form of footwear- kinky boots for transvestites! It is this idea that will take him all the way from the drudgery of working-town Northampton to the fashion catwalks of Milan.
We're becoming increasingly better at making this kind of film. And this is another success of this kind of film. What drives Kinky Boots probably more than anything else is the very engaging characters, primarily Lola, a well-spoken and believable drag queen persona with personal demons raging away beneath her. This is aside from the unoriginal but compelling character's of Charlie's girlfriend, his assistant and the traditional prejudiced workers who don't welcome Lola's presence too wonderfully. The rest of the film flows as a satisfying if unmemorable experience.
Trust me, if you don't think this is one of my best reviews, you should see my Calander Girls one. ***