The Greatest Irish Band That Never Was!!!

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2003)

The Commitments is an entertaining and very good movie about a man who wants to start an Irish soul band. He eventually recruits a full band with back-up singers that is pretty good. It shows their formation and overcoming obstacles and petty jealousies only to fall apart as they are about to possibly hit the big time. While the story sounds like a kind of tragedy it is well done, entertaining, funny, and very different. Colm Meaney is excellent as the father of the band manager Jimmy Rabbite, who idolized Elvis even above the Pope and possible even with God.The band is filled with characters ranging from boars, nitpickers, hotheads,bitchy attitudes and just average people who love music. The most heartwarming part of the whole movie was where they were riding the bus and all singing Destination Anywhere. They were never closer, except for a few times on stage as a band.Even the lead singer wanted to hog the spotlight and become an even bigger prick than he was. The whole cast as well as the story was excellent. This has to be one of the better movie soundtracks to come out of a movie ever.As it is, this movie is worth just a look for the music alone. Fortunately, there is a pretty damn good story to match the soundtrack. The Commitments is a sure a helluva lot better than the Irish Rovers as a band.