One to avoid if you are of a cynical bent

Rating: 7/10 (8 December 2007)

Young Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) is the result of a one night stand between wannabe rock star Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and talented cellist Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell). Evan has been brought up in an orphanage and has never known his parents, but he has a dream that one day, if they get to hear his music, they will come to him...
I rather enjoyed "August Rush" for it's (yes) fine music and good performances, including an extended, quite dark and sinister faginesque cameo by Robin Williams, an actor hardly known for his restraint on the big screen. "August Rush" is a definitely a fantasy, a mood piece, as insubstantial as tissue paper and definitely one to avoid if you are of a cynical bent.
As enjoyable as it is, I am not at all sure if "August Rush" will find an audience (although it did run for two weeks at that bastion of the blockbuster, the Cineworld multiplex on Broad Street in Birmingham), being too sentimental and dippy for an adult audience and too self consciously poetic and slow for a young audience.
Who cares? I liked it.