Sunshine On Leith

[millwall]

Excellent film best this year 10/10

[The Sparrow]

This was terrific fun.

nice intro by the director.

only criticism would be the use of that jaded hackneyed old tactic of having people in the film applauding, in order to get the audience to applaud.

seen it to many times for it to work anymore.

besides that, it was a gem. Special mention to jason flemings film stealing musical number & also to jane horrocks who shone above everyone else.

9/10

spotted the proclaimers cameo, but missed the director's.

Dexter Fletcher's cameo [spoiler]he played the man who came out of the pub, gingerly placed the glass on the edge of the pavement and broke wind.[/spoiler]

[mlt burger]

For many free screenings I have attended, I've gone in with no expectations, having learned very little about the films beforehand.
But with Sunshine on Leith I wanted it to be good, it was a British Film, a British cast, director and of course a very British sound track. This is probably why I came away a little disappointed, because I wanted it to do well.

At a QA session with Dexter Fletcher after the screening, he emphasised that he wanted only those singing to express the emotion of the song, whilst the extras carried on as normal. He felt it was in direct contrast to Mama Mia where the whole cast took on the mood of the principle singer. But he admitted for the final song in the film, he abandoned those principles. And it showed as the final song stood out over and above all the rest.

I can understand the directors desire to maintain the rawness of the original songs throughout the film, but for me I think the Proclaimers songs would have benefited from the big production. Given that the trailers for the film I have seen only feature the final song, perhaps deep down even Dexter Fletcher realises the other song fail to deliver.

The film was OK, but I think it was a missed opportunity, with better musical arrangements and choreography to equal the final song it could have been so much better.

4 out 10

[moggers]

Oh good grief, more scot-tash than a party political broadcast by Big Eck. The english actor's accents were bloody awful especially when singing. I'm pretty sure there would have been a big scottish lad and wee woman who could have played Davy and Jean without the hokey 'och no ma wee laddie' accents. Good to see Glasgow again in a film about auld reekie too! DD enjoyed it so 9/10 from her but she is 10 1/2. 4/10 from me.

[stuartboy]

Wow!

13/10

A perfect film.

So proud of my wee city. Didn't she shine?

Haven't seen the stageplay, but I can imagine that this is a very good rendition of it. Loved the way that the well-kent music just fitted seemlessly into the situations. Plenty of laughs too, especially that wee boy. Lots of aspects brought this movie very close to my heart.

It always amuses me when you watch a movie filmed in familiar surroundings to see how a journey from one place to another never seems to make geographical sense. He can't be running down those steps - they're miles away from where he's just come from! Lol.

Dexter Fletcher (the busboy in Hotel Babylon??!) deserves a good back-hander from the Scottish Tourist Board though. Stunningly shot. But where was the rain? Haha!

I would walk 500 miles just to see this again and again.

...and Peter Mullan can sing! At least he wasn't stamping on any dogs this time. Lol.

[biggins]

Got there early this morning at Cineworld Edinburgh and just got to my seat at 10.30am with a few other people when the film started!!!! My daughter and her husband still hadn't arrived (neither had Stuartboy ) Ran out and asked what they were doing as the film wasn't due to start until 11am. He went away and then came in and apologised and said it would start again at 11am - they had made a mistake with the times.

Lights never went down when the film did start at 11am but I was told when I asked why that they had a problem with the lighting in screen 13 and had to keep them on because if they switched them off they wouldn't go back on again.
Spoilt the film a bit as prefer watching in the dark.

Fabulous film - loved it and definately going tomorrow night to see it again with the sky screening. 10/10

[large marge]

Got there early this morning at Cineworld Edinburgh and just got to my seat at 10.30am with a few other people when the film started!!!! My daughter and her husband still hadn't arrived (neither had Stuartboy ) Ran out and asked what they were doing as the film wasn't due to start until 11am. He went away and then came in and apologised and said it would start again at 11am - they had made a mistake with the times.

Lights never went down when the film did start at 11am but I was told when I asked why that they had a problem with the lighting in screen 13 and had to keep them on because if they switched them off they wouldn't go back on again.
Spoilt the film a bit as prefer watching in the dark.

Fabulous film - loved it and definately going tomorrow night to see it again with the sky screening. 10/10

Dundee made the same mistake. We arrived just after 10:45 to find they had started it at 10:30. They didn't restart it! Seriously annoyed by this and still don't know what the 1st 15 mins were about. Enjoyed what I did see though (apart from some rubbish accents) 7/10
Preferred Filth though

[Beate]

We saw this at a Picturehouse free members' preview (don't think there was a code for Picturehouses). We were there before anyone else to get our favourite seats. They'd put us in the biggest screening room which felt a bit ambitious and they only filled it about 70%. We got a few trailers, one being for a film called "The Selfish Giant" (if it's a retelling of the Oscar Wilde story, it's a weird one). We had our own selfish giant in front of us, a massive bloke who completely blocked my view so OH generously swapped seats with me. Why do tall people not sit in the last row?

I was aware that this is a musical but it still felt very strange when the soldiers started singing. I recognized some of the songs but not all of them. Why did no one tell me that the delectable George Mackay is in this as well? And he's got a good voice, like Jane Horrocks obviously.

I wasn't sure about this at first as some of it sounded very schmaltzy and a bit too "we're all happy and loved up". There were some hickups for the lovers but it all got dissolved pretty quickly, and I didn't feel any real heartache from anyone but Jane Horrocks, whose rendition of "Sunshine on Leith" was very moving. I did however laugh quite frequently and all together it's a lovely feel-good movie just right for a Sunday morning, and some of the songs make you want to get up and dance. Also, Edinburgh looked wee pretty, I cannae deny it.

8/10

[Ms Thrifty]

Crawley was packed out, though they hadn't put the preview in a particularly large screen. I thought it was great, heart-warming stuff and more than a mere juke-box musical, though - and some might think this odd - I think the music could have been dispensed with as the story was strong enough to stand on its own. Having read articles about the genesis of the film, I do know it would probably not have been made otherwise, but yes, it always is odd when people start singing, for all the claims about how the music does fit in really well in this case.

[Beate]

I think the music could have been dispensed with as the story was strong enough to stand on its own. Having read articles about the genesis of the film, I do know it would probably not have been made otherwise, but yes, it always is odd when people start singing, for all the claims about how the music does fit in really well in this case.

I thought exactly the same actually. Yes the music was fun but it was not needed for the story at all, in fact sometimes I thought it didn't enhance but hinder.
There was strong acting here and it might have felt a little less fluffy without the singing.