Left glad-hearted and amused

Rating: 8/10 (11 June 2001)

Thick accents - on occasion, I had to rewind, or "translate from English" for M - and cool 80s English pop/punk soundtrack, this movie at times seemed to be struggling to become a prepubescent Flashdance, a sort of wordless dance musical of one (except for one number with Julie Walters Billy's teacher). All the jumping and tapping to music couldn't fail to amuse and move the story along to as happy an ending as could be had without being trite and cliche, a bullet I was happily surprised to see dodged. Ultimately, I was left glad-hearted and amused, with one nagging question on my mind: is Billy, in fact, a Poof?