Stream it now The Commitments 1991

 

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Unrestrained and excessively hilarious, the musical/comedy The Commitments is the kind of movie that's really hard not to smile at all the way through.

I love this move and would rate it in the top ten best made. Alan Parker did an excellent job of finding mostly unknowns to make this witty refreshing movie.
The music and songs are awesome, and Andrew Strongs voice is angelic. The R&B flavor of the movie is superbly crafted by Parker. But in the end its the young actors and singers that make this a sparkling film, a must see!

outrageously funny.

Hysterical screen play backed up by an awesome soundtrack. It doesn't matter how many times I see this movie it always make me laugh.

Alan Parkers stroke of genius was to use musicians who could act rather than actors who fake playing instruments.

The Commitments... a classic. I absolutely LOVE this film. There is something about Irish bastards and sassy chicks together with a geeky piano player and an out-of-control drummer that appeals to me. This film centres around Jimmy Rabbitte, an Irish guy who decides to start a band. He sticks an ad in the paper for people with "soul" and sticks together a band - to bring soul back to Dublin.

The iconic soundtrack (including "Mustang Sally" and "Try a Little Tenderness") fits the movie perfectly, and is worth seeing purely for the performances. The story is really original and is shot documentary style. I liked feeling as if I was seeing Dublin raw and in the flesh. It felt real and the acting was perfect. You couldn't ask for a better cast.

I don't have any criticisms for it. I enjoyed the rough-and-ready ride of a group of young people trying to do something with their empty lives.

Overall, an excellent film, but heavy language makes it unsuitable for some. Thoroughly enjoyable.

9/10

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This is not a conventional musical, though it does have a certain "we'll put on a show in the barn" feel as well. However, none of the songs really advance the story; their only purpose is to show the development of the band. While there are, obviously, love songs, they aren't sung to anyone but the audience. (That is, however, the audience in the film, not the audience of the film.) In many ways, it can be said not to be a musical at all, though quite a lot of the film is taken up with performances or rehearsals.

The Commitments is the story of young Jimmy Rabbitte (Junior, actually), who decides to launch a soul band. He's not a musician himself; he will manage the band. But since soul isn't the most popular music among his contemporaries, he takes upon himself the duty of explaining true soul.

There are three acts to this movie. Act One is Jimmy and the audition process. This may well be the funniest part. He puts an ad in the paper and, it seems, half of Dublin shows up to answer it. (Including someone who saw the line and assumed the people were in it to buy drugs.) Unfortunately, hardly any of them know soul music. He even ends up with a zydeco band in his bathroom at one point. He has started out with a guy on guitar and a guy on bass, and he adds trumpet, sax, drums, and four vocalists.

Act Two is the upswing of the band, its rehearsing to the first successful performance. The girls learn not to use their own accents when singing soul. Deco . . . learns nothing. Dean learns the sax, which he got from his uncle with the collapsed lung and doesn't play very well. Joey "The Lips" Fagan tries to win them all over to soul and Jesus. And so forth. Jimmy starts to have hope.

Act Three is the inevitable downswing from successful performances to raging fights. Their first drummer can't take Deco anymore, and no wonder. They start to make a splash on the Dublin musical scene. What happens from there is best seen rather than explained, of course, but Wilson Pickett is involved.

I've loved this movie for years. It may well be a movie that Raul introduced me to. Unfortunately, I don't actually own a copy; it's on the list, of course, but as you can imagine, it's a long list. It's another eminently quotable movie, but it's better quality than a lot of the quotable movies we discuss here. In that it's actually a good movie.

11-08-06

(*** 1/2):

Very entertaining and funny British film. Some great musical performances!

Good music and characters.