Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Finding Your Feet" is a new British 110-minute movie that premiered back in 2017 and this was made by established director Richard Loncraine, an Emmy winner, and the two writers are somewhat experienced as well, so there is the base for a quality movie, especially if you take a look at the cast members here too. And honestly these were the highlight of the entire thing. Staunton, Sessions, Imrie, Spall certainly make a great impact with the material. The script is a bit on the shoddy side. Sometimes, it is just amazing, sometimes, it just doesn't feel right. The weakest moment include the random death of a sex partner, maybe also a central character's death at the end, which happens of course right one day after the important stage performance or the restaurant applauding the main character after she takes a stand against her ex-husband. I would say that the sex-related jokes, especially in the first half, may very well be this movie's biggest weakness. It tries to be funny, but virtually never is, just seems as if they recycled some of the worst lines from "Grace & Frankie". Fitting that Spall never is a partg of that as he may very well be the best thing of the entire film. The dementia story line with his wife is really really touching on more than one occasion and if there is one aspect that may get your eyes wet, then that's it. Sadly, some weak plot twists resulting from it, hurt this as well, like for example how does Spall fall in love so quickly with somebody else, so unstoppably with what's going on with his wife. Well, that could be explained to some extent, but really Staunton's character doing the same cannot in my opinion looking at how much she is embarrassed by the divorce papers, how she is clearly not over the long time with her husband etc. And how she pushes Spall's character away near the end because he did not tell her about the wife feels also a bit like fake drama. Not too sure about the Italy story by Emrie's character near the end, I guess it's okay. Debatable. The dancing aspect is not as frequent in this film as you could think from the trailer, description and film's title. But it's okay, you definitely don't need to be a dancer to appreciate the film. Staunton and Spall have their fair share of character studies and period pieces in their bodies of work and their experience clearly pays off in making the somewhat ridiculous and cheesy story look tolerable. It's not the key story that will stay in your mind, it's the small moments like Spall's character giving solace to the other one after he mourns his wife once again. "Where do you go to my Lovely" being a thing of beauty (audibly) certainly helps matters too. The romance plot at the center is definitely a bit vague and not well thought through occasionally. A bit of a pity. But it's still a charming movie during more than just a few scenes, especially if you like the cast. Not one the best films of the year, not even if you restrict the category to British films, but it's worth seeing I guess. Maybe I am also just not old enough that the film will resonate really well with me. This is one for senior audiences rather than young ones. Go check it out.

Moviegoer19 Sometimes when something is predictable I'm happy because I like what's predicted. That was the case with Finding Your Feet. Once I knew what the story line would be, many lines and scenes became predictable but who cared! I thoroughly enjoyed watching the film. The acting was excellent, especially by Imelda Staunton and Celia Imre. The characters they played were imminently likeable. They were different but their mutual love and respect for each other made them accept their differences. The film both looked and sounded great: full of color and rhythm. I alternately smiled and had tears. In the end I loved having a film about people my age, that I could relate to, that was both dramatic and ironic. P.S. After watching this film a second time within 24 hours, I loved and realized just how great it is, so changed the title and rating above.

sueelaine Battling brain cancer this movie generously and humorously got me on my feet and into life again.

bob-the-movie-man There are some films whose trailers really don't properly represent their contents. The trailer for the new 'grey-pound' film "Finding Your Feet" promised a light hearted and witty foray into an elderly dance-club. And, yes, you get some laughs. But it's very much a bitter sweet comedy, and the bitterness is ladled on by the bucketload leading to more tears than smiles through the majority of the running time.Sandra (Imelda Staunton, "Pride") - now Lady Sandra, after her husband's latest knighthood - is in a predictable, sex-free but reasonably happy marriage to legal beagle Mike (John Sessions, "Denial", "Florence Foster Jenkins") when her world is shaken to its core on discovering that Mike has been having a five-year affair with her best friend Pamela (Josie Lawrence). Moving in with her Bohemian sister Bif (Celia Imrie, "Bridget Jones Baby"), she struggles to integrate into her decidedly lower class lifestyle and find common ground with Bif's dance club friends Charlie (Timothy Spall, "Denial", "Mr Turner"), Ted (David Hayman) and Jackie (Joanna Lumley, "The Wolf of Wall Street").Can Sandra turn her downward spiral around and find love and happiness again? Well, the posters scream "The Feel Good Film of the Year" so you don't need to be a rocket scientist to know the answer to that! But it's a bumpy journey for sure. Getting all the acting honours is Timothy Spall, who is far too good to be buried away in this small British rom com. To watch him do "ordinary bloke doing ordinary things" is an absolute delight. He adds class and distinction to every scene he's in, especially for those concerned with his truly tragic and upsetting back-story. Running a close second is Celia Imrie who has a wicked smile off to perfection and adds a lot of emotional depth to her performance: and she needs the range, since she too is on a pretty emotional journey through the second half of the film.John Sessions and Josie Lawrence - old compatriots of course from the original version of TV's "Whose Line Is It Anyway" - also deliver marvellous cameo performances, as does Phoebe Nicholls ("The Elephant Man", "Downton Abbey") as the tennis playing friend Janet. Less convincing for me was Imelda Staunton, particularly in the first half of the film: for me she never quite pulls off the icy cold emotional wreck of Sandra, but is much better once the thaw has set in.The film is written by Meg Leonard (in a debut script) and Nick Moorcroft (who did the "St Trinians" scripts). And there are some funny lines in there, although it has to be said that there are not enough of them. The majority of the best ones in fact are in the trailer, never bettered by Joanna Lumley's zinger.... "My last marriage ended for religious reasons.... he thought he was God and I didn't"! There's not much more room for comic lines, since the rest of the script is stuffed with the dramatic outcomes from various flavours of old-age malady. Fortunately I was one of the younger members of the generally grey-haired audience, but for those further up the scale it must have been like staring into the void!The film will win no awards for choreography, since the dance scenes are gloriously inept and out of sync. But this all rather adds to the charm of the piece. Directed by Richard Loncraine, director of the equally forgettable Brit-flick "Wimbledon" and the rather more memorable "Brimstone and Treacle", this is as Douglas Adams would have said "Mostly Harmless": a film that most over-50's will find a pleasant way to spend two hours. But go in expecting a drama with comic moments, rather than the hilarious comedy predicted by the trailer, and you will be better prepared.(I should comment that the rating below is my view: my illustrious wife declared it a triumphant chick-flick and gave it 9*!).