Kinky Boots
Director: Julian Jarrold
Actors: Edgerton, Joel, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Release Date: Monday 30th November -0001
Charlie Price (Edgerton) has finally escaped Northampton, and a life working in his father's shoe factory, with his fiancee but is called back when his father suddenly dies. Charlie is handed the reigns of the factory, which is hurtling towards bankruptcy. On a trip to London in a vain hope to offload a back order of stock, Charlie meets the sexy transvestite Lola (Ejiofor) who gives Charlie an idea to replenish his ailing profits - making sexy boots for men. Enlisting the help of Lola, Charlie sets about designing high-heeled boots that can take a man's weight and forces his traditional, set-in-their-ways workforce to make them. Can Charlie avoid the raised eyebrows from the villagers and manage to have a collection of boots ready for the Milan catwalk? Kinky Boots makes a decent attempt at The Full Monty style humour but where that movie had a great cast delivering good lines, Kinky Boots' jokes belong to last seasons bargain bin. Ejiofor looks slightly uncomfortable in those stilettos and really doesn't get a lot of support from the rest of the cast as they languish in the background making stereotypical homophobic jokes that are so obvious, they could be emblazoned on a soho neon-lit sign. The story needs a spit and polish and, although contains a high number of transvestites, lacks balls as a possible love story between Lola and the factory's arm wrestling man's man peters out by the end.
