just watch it!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

I heard about this film mainly because it is set to the songs of Scottish folk-pop duo The Proclaimers, based on the hit stage play, it was rated well by critics, so I hoped for something good, from Scotland BAFTA nominated actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle). Basically recently discharged British Army servicemen Davy Henshaw (George MacKay) and Ally (Kevin Guthrie) have returned home to their families in Edinburgh after a tour in Afghanistan ("I'm on my Way"). On the of Davy and Ally's first night home, Ally's girlfriend Liz (Scotland BAFTA nominated Freya Mavor), Davy's sister and a nurse, introduces Davy to her English friend and colleague Yvonne (Antonia Thomas), and the girls take part in the Scottish tradition of drunken storytelling ("Over and Done With"). Davy and Yvonne have a blind date and strike up a romantic relationship ("Misty Blue"), while Ally and Liz consider the potential of their future as a married couple ("Make my Heart Fly"). Davy's father Robert "Rab" Henshaw (Scotland BAFTA nominated Peter Mullan) receives a letter from Eilidh (Sara Vickers), a daughter he didn't know he had, they later meet, she is the result of an affair, the mother has just died, and he secretly attends the funeral. Ally tells Davy he intends to propose to Liz during the 25th wedding anniversary party for Davy's parents Rab and Jean (Scotland BAFTA nominated Jane Horrocks), a bartender overhears the conversation and offers Ally advice on how to propose ("Let's Get Married"). At the anniversary party Rab serenades Jean ("Oh Jean"), during the party, Jean discovers Rab's letter and is outraged at Rab's infidelity, Ally then proposes to Liz, but she turns him down, a mass brawl develops, Yvonne is horrified at Davy's aggression. Jean is horrified that Rab intends to keep seeing his newly found daughter, Jean sends him to Coventry and he sleeps on a sofa, Jean eventually feels guilty and blames herself for her family falling apart, but her colleagues at the Scottish National Gallery reassure her that it is not her fault ("Should Have Been Loved"). Meanwhile Rab plans a special meal to make up with Jean, but he suffers a heart attack and is taken to hospital, he recovers, he and Jean reconcile ("Sunshine on Leith"), Jean agrees to let Rab see his daughter and brought her see to the hospital to see him. Yvonne and Davy have reconciled ("Then I Met You"), however Liz and Ally's relationship has dissolved, Ally decides to re-enlist in the army, while Liz accepts an offer of a job nursing in Florida ("Letter from America"). Davy and Yvonne have an argument, she prepares to leave Edinburgh, but before she can reach Waverley railway station, Davy catches her and declares his commitment to her in Princes Street Gardens. They reconcile again ("I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"), Jean and Rab sing verses, and Ally on patrol also sings, Liz is seen at work opening a letter from Ally, it is a fairly happy ending. Also starring Jason Flemyng as Harry Harper, Emily-Jane Boyle as Christine, Paul Brannigan as Ronnie, Dexter Fletcher as Drunk Outside Pub and The Proclaimers (twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid) as Twins Leaving Pub. The film adopts a very similar style to the Mamma Mia! Formula, the cast are chosen well, in particular Horrocks and Mullan, it is a simple story of relationships rekindled and troubled, it blends the dramatic and fun moments well, and the songs do make more interesting, "Letter from America" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" are the highlights, all together it is a likeable musical drama. It was nominated the Scotland BAFTA for Best Feature Film. Good!

I am not a big fan of the Proclamers, but the movie really made the best out of it. Most of the actors sing really well. George MacKay is absolutely awesome and although I have never been there, I fell in love with Edinburgh. As a foreigner I especially loved the accents of the different actors. The only thing which made me give eight instead of ten stars is the plot, because although it is obviously a love story, so not something where you expect action, I thought that not much happened all together. Still it is a nice movie maybe for Sunday afternoons and I would recommend it to other musical fans but also to romantics.

You know the expression "white people can't dance" – well at least not since Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. This film is definite proof of that. Dancing is not waving your hands in the air. All the dance scenes look the same – similar to a you-tube flash-mob. Choreography not required.And the singing is worse.Aside from a few comic scenes during the dance hall – this is cloying and predictable – and Boring (capital "B" intended). The characters are un-engaging. It looked at times like a Scottish tourist brochure.Overall this approaches the banal. A musical must have a sense of vitality and an energy force - this was sadly lacking.

Sunshine on Leith is a kind of 'Mamma Mia' for Scots twin brother folk/rock duo The Proclaimers - it strings a catalogue of their songs around a story of two soldiers returning from duty in Afghanistan. The opening, set in a personnel carrier where all the soldiers start to sing, is quite effective, except that it goes on far too long and the lead character is not established or marked out in any way.Once that's finally over, I think we get a kind of soap opera of two or more families and their Mike Leigh-style problems; I'm not sure because there is a long, repetitive song shoehorned into every scene, which goes on and on in that inexorable Proclaimers way that the twins Craig and Charlie manage to make work live, but when it's performed (or mimed to) by drama students (none of whom can sing and act at the same time) mugging their faces off, the song outstays its welcome over and over and over again.In every scene it's like some school production where the director said, 'well I know it's strictly not good drama, but you can all have a whacking great showstopper each, and we can all be great pals, OK?. Yes, even you, Peter Mullan, because no-one is to be left out'. The writer has just transferred River City to Andrew Lloyd Webber Hell. A TV soap script DOES NOT WQRK on the big screen, OK? After a while you start to imagine logos for advertisers drifting up on screen - SOL becomes like an endless series of outtakes from adverts for cider, as happy faces drift around glittering bars. The end may be good: it's isn't worth putting up with the first half for. You'll just want to change channel, like you do in the adverts.