Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Armand amusing, well made, seductive, smart. a film about an idea and its expression. the basic virtue - science to translate the adventure in the right manner. than, the new image about values, people's adaptation, cultural contradictions. a film about courage, admirable work of an interesting script and a real good cast. a film about fashion and an eccentric option to save a business. but only at first sigh. because it explores the every day fears and taboo, limits and crazy answers to ordinary problems. result - not only an interesting comedy but a form of lesson about the other. and about success. short - a lovely film. that is all. so, it is not a bad idea to see it.

Ben Larson This quirky little film would be entirely enjoyable on its own. The story of the man who was not adept at his family business inheriting and saving the day with the assistance of the transvestite/drag queen, and winning the girl would be enough to satisfy the most ardent movie goer.But Kinky Boots was so much more. Joel Edgerton (Smokin' Aces) as Charlie Price was super as the son who inherited the family business. Expected to sell by his partner Nicola, played ably by Jemima Rooper (The Black Dahlia), Charlie came to realize that the fate of many people was in his hands. A solution fell into his lap and with grit and determination he risked everything to save the day.As Kipling said, "If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"Charlie risked it all. He didn't lose, but he could have. I think Kipling would have rated him a man. What's more, since he risked it all for his workers, not himself, he is a great man.Chiwetel Ejiofor (Love Actually, Four Brothers, Children of Men) was Lola, who really made this film. He/she was brilliant as the creative genius behind the Kinky Boots factory. Lola was also a multi-faceted character that changed minds and hearts. Besides that, she could sing!Sarah-Jane Potts (National Lampoons Barely Legal, Felicity) was Lauren, the real prize for Charlie.It was also interesting to see show manufacturing in the film. I doubt if there are any more in the US, so we would have to go overseas or to a movie to see it. This film was based on a true story.

Don Muvo This movie takes place primarily in two sets, a drag night club and a shoe factory. The problem is, neither of these places is a very universally exciting place to be. I you absolutely loved your last visit to a drag night club, and Victor-Victoria is on your top movies of all time list, by all means this film is a must-see, especially for the fine work of Chiwetel Ejiofor, who plays "Lola". The theme that appears repeatedly is lovely too, acceptance. Nevertheless, I have to say that the movie plods along sadly between the characters and unattractive sets, and never really catches fire, despite the drag dance numbers. The other main character Charlie, is played just a bit too drab and dumb for me, maybe its the non-britness of me, or the aussieness of the actor - I don't know. It's obvious that the movie needed a strong counter-character to Lola ("the best of both sexes"), and didn't get it in Joel Edgerton. I want to improve my rating, but the boring aspect of this movie pandering to our best instincts prevents me from doing so, and the movie really bombed with my family, not just with me.Another reviewer mentioned a connection with "The Full Monty" - if you liked that film, there is a relationship there, but in The Full Monty, the characters are actually trying to put an enterprise together, while the characters in this show are spending too much time working at cross-purposes and going in different directions. Perhaps that is meant to be symbolic of what the conflict between transvestites vs. non-transvestites is. In the end, it is only acceptance that allows the two sides to come together.

Jackson Booth-Millard I mainly knew this film because of the black actor that appears in Love Actually and the best friend of Simon Pegg in Hot Fuzz. Besides that, only other thing I knew was the black actor was playing a drag queen, I didn't know it was based on a true story. Basically Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) inherits his father's shoe business, Prince & Son's, and his factory, which is failing. One night, by chance, he meets drag queen cabaret singer Lola (Golden Globe nominated Chiwetel Ejiofor) who complains about inadequate footwear for her work, which, along with his friend and ex-worker Lauren (Sugar Rush's Sarah-Jane Potts) inspire him to create men's fetish footwear. Of course Lola is intrigued, but Charlie does have prejudice from the staff, but Charlie keeps trying to save his business, and it eventually helps take his work to modelling show. Also starring Linda Bassett as Mel, The Famous Five's Jemima Rooper as Nicola, Nick Frost as Don, Ewan Hooper as George, Robert Pugh as Harold Price and Geoffrey Streatfield as Richard Bailey. It may not have been one the funniest comedy film, but the story has good elements to it, and Ejiofor does do a good job. Worth watching!