Best movie ever!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I'm sure I've seen worse films in my life - I just can't remember when.This was pure and utter cringe-worthy rubbish!! The singing, the songs and their environments couldn't have been worse. And inappropriate - my god! Honestly I've seen better kindergarten school plays. The story line was paper-thin and completely pointless. Why would anyone make a film like this? It wasn't entertaining and had nothing to say. I can only surmise it was produced as a tax dodge. I have absolutely no idea how this could have gotten 6.6 on IMDb. If I could, I'd give it 0.66

Sunshine on Leith attempts to do with the music of The Proclaimers what Magnolia did with Aimee Mann songs, namely fashion a narrative that interweaves the various tales hinted at in the songs lyrics. The story lines themselves are pure family melodrama, and like the renditions of the songs, some work better than others. Peter Mullan brings that gravelly majesty of his to the show, a credible thread of proletariat credentials in a film that largely strips the working-class despair and Scottish nationalist politics from The Proclaimers lyrics (the characters who sing of Linwood and Bathgate no more most likely have never heard of these places ever). His marriage crisis is genuinely fraught, and when his wife discovers his secret, precisely at the worst of times, there is a wordless look that passes between husband and wife that cuts the foundations of 25 years. In a film that is unabashedly going after froth and fun most of the time, this is a small, startling cinematic moment. The film is a love letter to The Proclaimers and to Edinburgh, and as such will satisfy audiences who crave such depictions. It is not normally my cup of tea, but I found myself rooting for George MacKay's Davy to do the right thing, and hoping Jane Horrock's Jean would find a way to forgive. As for the songs, 500 Miles gets a fittingly stagey production, but I can't help but feel the two soldiers, or the father and son, in the stands at Easter Road, belting out Sunshine on Leith with the Hibs support, would have been a powerfully poignant moment. A bit of a missed opportunity there.

Well Mamma Mia was Abba songs put to music mixed in with a storyline set in a romantic Greek island.Sunshine on Leith is songs by The Proclaimers with a story involving two squaddies who have served in Afghanistan. One of their mates has been injured in a roadside bombing and they have left the army and returned to their family and an uncertain future or more accurately a job in a call centre.I thought at first if there would be enough catchy songs here given that like most people in Britain over the age of 40 we would only be familiar with two of the songs by The Proclaimers that were hits back in 1986.However this low budget musical acquits itself well. It is rather cheesy, many of the songs are good enough which rather suggests that The Proclaimers deserve to be better known for their other songs.The actors even Peter Mullan put in a lot of gusto in the song and dance numbers, although I think Jane Horrocks looked too young to be his wife.It is a slight story involving tangled romances and ghosts of the past. I did think the bittersweet romantic story of the two soldiers did not really work for me. I liked the rousing finishing song and dance number and although there are some nice scenes set in Edinburgh, I would had to have seen more of Leith itself.

I should hate this. I thought I would. Take a band whose music is real. A band who don't do poxy love songs. Who do great Scottish songs of independence. A band I admit to loving. Now you try to shoehorn their songs into a musical. It is going to suck. Isn't it?Actually no. No need to critique whats wrong with this movie. Everything is. It sucks. Its terrible.I loved every minute. Its not Momma Mia (thank God) Its not Easy Rider. But it is a really enjoyable movie. Loads of fun. Bright, lively and well worth a watch. This is the perfect date movie. If you, like me, don't like chick flicks. If its too early to watch "The unbearable lightness of being". Then this is a great option. It's just good fun.