Kinky Boots (2006)

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Kinky boots is a movie about hope, inspiration, accepting that is sometimes hard to accept. Watching this in 2014 just makes me think how many incredible movies do not really make it to big screen. The movie is one of the best works of both Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joel Edgerton. The song selection is just one of the best. 70s was the best time ever I think for pop and many other music genre. I am just thankful to Netflix for taking this movie else a good movie would have slipped by me.If you have not watched this one yet, you are missing a great feel good feel movie. Go rent it, stream it whatever you need to do, but watch it.10/10 for making my evening better!

This is another one of those quirky working-class character-based comedies that the Brits seem to specialize in (ala the Full Monty) and it's a pretty good one. With drag queens.I thought it was particularly well cast with the two main leads (Edgerton and, particularly, Ejiofor) who do a tremendous job bringing these characters to life. Ejiofor's portrayal of Lola/Simon is quite clearly the big draw here. It's a rich part and he plays it for all it's worth.Other than the sharply-drawn characters you have the standard culture-clash stuff, can-do industrial spirit and lite romantic comedy. It's certainly a formula picture and the veteran movie-goer will be able to see all of the story beats coming. A little more ramped-up Lola-energy would have been appreciated to shake things up. Sex may be in the heel, but there really isn't any of it in the movie. And there's a forced conflict towards the end for the sake of dramatic tension but it's completely unconvincing.Still, I'm a sucker for misfit characters and inspirational stories of reinvention so I'll give it a pass on the faults. I also now feel very self-conscious that none of my footwear is equipped with whip holsters--a lapse that will soon be rectified, I assure you.Recommended for fans of Brit comedies and/or drag queens. You know who you are.

The plot was quite predictable, as other reviews have also stated, but I still found the movie extremely entertaining. The humor was what charmed me. It was not the mean kind of humor where you are supposed to laugh because people are acting like idiots or caught in overly embarrassing situations. This movie contained humor that was warm and happy and presented so that it won't make fun of any single group of people. My opinion is that this kind of humor is hard to come up with but gives the most satisfactory laughs.The acting was OK, as was the musical score and whatnot other technical bits there are in a movie, nothing to complain in those. I also liked the sets such as the shoe factory that is in a central part in the movie and its plot. The length of the movie was OK also - not too long nor too short. One could say that the movie tries to make people more understanding towards each other and point out how there is intolerance in the world but this message isn't brought to your face so that it would prevent you from having a good time.Women will probably get the most out of this movie (shoes, dozens of shoes!) but I can't see any reason for men to enjoy watching this also (as I did).

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.