avoid if you were a frank sidebottom fan

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2014)

I never thought that anything remotely connected to Frank Sidebottom would leave me feeling angry but I can't remember the last time I was so offended by a movie. I'm appalled at the way this film has tried to connect itself with the real Frank Sidebottom in any way, it's like some kind of hideous nightmareish American 'profound' version of Frank Sidebottom, tacked onto some cooler-than-thou hipster flick ...totally and utterly wrong from every angle. Frank Sidebottom was a true one-off, and this attempt to hijack his legacy and re-package it for a twitter/facebook obsessed twenty-something market is preposterous. Now I need to go and listen to my Radio Timperley cassettes on full volume and sing Guess Whose Been On Match Of The Day at the top of my voice for an hour just to get this abomination out of my head. As the great man himself would put it, absolutely bobbins.
Perhaps we can look forward to the sequel, "Frank 2". Based on the life of Frank Zappa, starring Danny Dyer doing his best 'Danny Dyer' voice in the title role?