This feelgood musical featuring the Proclaimers' work is likable but feels too staged – except for some stirring star performances
Andy Warhol's famous prediction about everyone getting to be world-famous for 15 minutes may soon be replaced by something else. Soon every band in the world will have its own feelgood jukebox musical. Everyone who has ever released a record, or performed live, will by EU directive get their greatest-hits catalogue crowbarred into a high-energy musical on the lines of Mamma Mia! – including Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Wurzels and Slipknot. Every band's songs will be crammed into a laughter-and-tears story about family parties, love and young women with lovably rumpled dads they didn't know they had.
Such a one is Sunshine on Leith, a good-natured, likable but sometimes contrived and eerily artificial movie-musical – like something cultivated in a lab or generated from a computer...
Andy Warhol's famous prediction about everyone getting to be world-famous for 15 minutes may soon be replaced by something else. Soon every band in the world will have its own feelgood jukebox musical. Everyone who has ever released a record, or performed live, will by EU directive get their greatest-hits catalogue crowbarred into a high-energy musical on the lines of Mamma Mia! – including Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Wurzels and Slipknot. Every band's songs will be crammed into a laughter-and-tears story about family parties, love and young women with lovably rumpled dads they didn't know they had.
Such a one is Sunshine on Leith, a good-natured, likable but sometimes contrived and eerily artificial movie-musical – like something cultivated in a lab or generated from a computer...
- 10/3/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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