A real tonic of a movie

Rating: 8/10 (12 April 2017)

John Carney's "Sing Street" is much closer to "The Commitments" than it is to "Once" but like "Once" it's on a much smaller scale, (a kind of "Bugsy Malone" version of "The Commitments"), but if the scale is small both its heart and its humour are pretty massive and its mostly young cast are fabulous, (and the adults aren't half bad either). You could write the plot on a pinhead, (boy meets girl, boy starts band, boy gets girl), but plot is the last thing you go to a movie like this for, There's more tonic in "Sing Street" than there is in a dozen pints of plain.