A friend of mine said he really liked this so i thought i should check it out in my quest to actually watch a few films from this year. This was very good i thought. Kind of a cliche term but i did feel like this was a nice feelgood film, pretty funny too. The humour felt very familiar but it worked anyway. What felt weird was that the first half; the forming the band up to when they make their first video was were most of the comedy happened, the second half strayed into drama and romance more but again i felt it worked. Mostly because of the solid performances by both of the leads, i bought into their relationship and found myself rooting for them which is extremely rare for a teen romance film for me, even in a film i think this film was very similar to that i'll mention later i wouldn't say i was necessarily rooting for the relationship to work.
I really liked the music. Not because i thought the songs were great but because they were so generic; the brothers hatred of the idea of a cover band partially because it wasn't original was funny because they weren't original at any time, they were playing in the same style as the musicians of the time just with their own generic songs. I think this was underscored with one of the best jokes in the film; the different looks and attitudes they had every new school week because they were being fas-tracked through an education on current music. It was great how these attitudes melded with Conors emotions and that this all culminated in the concert at the end with three very different songs about three very different things. Speaking of the brother i think he may have been my favourite character; the actor was fine but he had a few hokey moments, i think that character was written extremely well though and he was the most important in the film, by that i mean Conor and Raphina could've been re-written with completely different personalities and it still would've worked, but he was vital to the film. That 50s prom scene was amazing. It was so upbeat and yet it was so devestating since from the moment it started it was clear that he was imagining this; it was his perfect ending which he wasn't going to get. As far as he was aware at least since if she wasn't there then she must have went to London.
It is really remarkable how similar to Submarine this is. Young love between a mysterious female and a slightly dorky male, the male tries to change himself to get the females attention, set in a part of the British Isles that isn't Scotland or England; Submarine - Wales, Sing Street - Ireland (this may be stretching it a bit but i think this would be relevant to anyone from here, you could probably make it anywhere except England tbh being from Scotland though i feel differently of course) the mother of the males in both is having an affair and the mother of the female in both have a serious problem; in Submarine it's a brain tumour and in this it is bi-polar disorder, Submarine definitely explores the parents part alot more though. The male and females "place" in both is even the beach/pier. I do think Submarine is quite a bit better but i found this interesting, i certainly don't think this was trying to emulate Submarine in anyway, other than the fact that it is a quirky BritIrish romantic comedy there's not many similarities in tone.
Very good film.
2016 so far:
01.Everybody Wants Some
02.The Witch
03.Sing Street (i'm not actually sure if i like this less than The Witch)
04.The Nice Guys
05.Zootopia
06.Midnight Special (i felt similar about this and Green Room so they could switch)
07.Green Room
08.Finding Dory
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