The perfect dumb feel-good movie

[dreamshark]

Last night I finally tore myself away from obsessing over the election and went up to the attic to watch a little Outlander. But when I got there, I couldn't face it (it's a beautiful show but incredibly stressful to watch). So instead I continued down the rambling path of following the career of my new favorite actor, Robert Carlyle,  by watching The Full Monty. It was actually a re-watch, but I had seen it so long ago that I hadn't even remembered it was Robert Carlyle until I started looking for stuff with him in it. What a  delightfully goofy little film! You might think that a movie that is built around a male stripper act that may or may not involve full frontal nudity would be a little bit raunchy, but it would barely make it to PG if it weren't for a string of casual F-bombs delivered in barely understandable Yorkshirese in the first half of the movie (Fook! We'll nivver get this fooking car oota the canal!)  Mostly it is just incredibly sweet. And we never do learn why the car is in the canal - it's just an establishing scene to introduce the main characters.

Highly recommended for these trying times.

Comments

The Full Monty

[eileenlufkin]

I remember seeing this in the theater with you! It is such a good movie, I remember a lot about it for something I saw so long ago.

Re: The Full Monty

[dreamshark]

Oh, Eileen, my dear external memory bank! I didn't even remember seeing it in a theater (although I knew I had seen it SOMEWHERE). All I really remembered was Yorkshire lads larking about against a somewhat dismal background of industrial decay. I had forgotten how much fun it was, and how heartwarming. Seeing it again with my new appreciation for Robert Carlyle, I can see how much of that is due to his inimitable presence. He just dances through that movie, even when he is pretending not to know how to dance.

If you want to watch it again on Amazon you will have to pay a few dollars for the privilege, but probably less than we paid to see it the first time back in 1997.