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Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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Prismark10 The Full Monty is a charming feel good comedy but with dark undertones. Sheffield might had been once a city on the move thanks to its steel industry but by the 1990s it was facing industrial ruin. The factories were closing.Gary (Robert Carlyle) is unemployed and behind his child maintenance payments. With his best friend Dave (Mark Addy) he is reduced to stealing steel girders for spare cash.When they stumble upon women lining up at a working men's club to see The Chippendales, they hit upon the idea of doing their own strip show but go fully naked.They get a group of six together but they really cannot dance and some of them do not have the physique. Only Gerald (Tom Wilkinson) their former foreman has dance training and sets about teaching the rest the dance moves.As time goes on the men bond as they deal with issues such as being in debt, without a job or relationship problems.In some ways the film was inspired by The Boys from the Blackstuff without too much of the black comedy and grimness although it does have raw and rowdy humour.Robert Carlyle does a good northern accent more chipper than Chippendale who is confident until the time to start the show comes. Mark Addy and Hugo Speer became well known faces after this film. Horse played by Paul Barber is good fun as the veteran disco dancer.

smanley-31669 Absolutely love this film. The story line is excellent. I feel it helped me learn about the time they shut down the steel works and how people struggled for work. Loved the characters and personalities. Very British film, which I think is always the best. The film have very serious topics involved which makes the story feel so real. That is the sad and real side of story but comedy the overrides the seriousness making it a funny and true film. I would definitely recommend this for friend. This is a good film for cheering yourself up and not feeling as alone in the world when you are struggling with life in the UK.

nzpedals The first time I watched the DVD I rated it a 9, but now, on a second look, I got a bit bored. But the Bonus Features on the 2-DVD package were good, especially the language lady, Laura Wright, who told us about the changes that Fox asked for coz they thought American audiences wouldn't understand the English idiom. Like "top"? and "works", and DIY? and "lassie"? and "twat"? But strangely, no mention is made of the phrase "There's none so queer as folk" ? My guess is that no one could come up with an explanation? Yet just about everyone else in the English speaking world would know it simply means... "Some people are strange" (we all would have learned it from Coronation Street on TV?) My guess is that that phrase and the scene were simply deleted from the US release.The commentaries by the director and another by the producer were awful. I got the impression that neither were actually watching the film, and were just babbling away? OK, Pasolini (producer) did at least mention Emily Woof who got four scenes for a total of about 3 minutes on screen. This is a boys or males film and the ladies hardly get a look in.The story is straight forward, factory workers made redundant, no job, no money, so... when they learn that the women of their lives are prepared to spend money on seeing a male strip-show, they decide to have a go too.It takes quite a bit of organising, they arrange a venue, they have to practise all the actions, get the right costumes, and then actually do it. - Something that most of us wouldn't do, no matter what? There are some touching scenes. The foreman, Gerald hasn't even told his wife he has no job. But she keeps spending, and the savings are disappearing. Gaz, (Robert Carlyle) is behind in the maintenance payments to his ex-wife,(Emily Woof) others are depressed and suicidal.The acting is great and there are quite a few quotable lines, but it is still a bit slow, so I've gone down to a 7.

gavin6942 Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.I have not seen "Magic Mike" yet, but that and this are the only two films that come to find that focus on male strippers. In fact, strippers in general tend not to be the focus of films. Many films have strippers in them, but how often are they the central focus? Anyway, this film is very endearing. The stripping is humorous and not really as central as the development of the characters. By far the funniest part is when the men are all waiting in a line and their song (Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff") comes on... watch them subconsciously gyrate in public!