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A group of unemployed Yorkshire steelworkers hopes to replenish their empty wallets and boost their flagging morale by following in the footsteps of the Chippendale's strippers. These guys are hardly what you would think of as buff, and few can even dance. They simply take these problems in stride, because these are men with a plan--displaced, unemployed, and feeling suffocated by the women in their lives, they just want to earn a little respect. The dialogue and interaction between these men will have you screeching with laughter, but of equal importance is their sense of camaraderie and caring. First-time director Peter Cattaneo is a name to watch for; he easily conveys the sheer humanity of these people in their small town with their sad stories and irresistible sense of optimism.--Rochelle O'Gorman
a good tease *smiling* Hilarious!!! This movie completely caught me by surprise. Someone had recommended it to me so when I was at the movie rental store, I decided to watch it. A couple of weeks later, I bought it. I would highly recommend this movie.
Real men, not props, a great, gritty, marvellous film This film is hilarious, moving, exciting. Here the men are not backdrops to beautiful women. This is the kind of film where guys can almost see themselves in one or more of the marvellous characters that end up making up this cast of would be male strippers. But if you're thinking perfect bodies, think again... this is gritty, not beautiful. The only beauty is in its absolute capacity to shake you and move you and it does that brilliantly without a doubt. Another film in this genre is Tap Dogs and I'd recommend both as films that will equally appeal to men and women, straight and gay alike.The fight for surviving is the mother of the inventive! This hallucinating, provocative and irreverent script had to come from England: the nest of so many and not least brilliant gems in the recent past. Films of the stature of Pygmalion, The importance of being Ernest (adapted from Shaw and Wilde respectively), Kind hearts and cornets, The Lavender Hill Mob, Lady killers, Hobson's choice, Whisky Gallore - delighted and still make it laugh - to several generations and carried as flower and its fruit the germinal seed of the Monthy Phyton in the seventies. The severe underemployment crisis leads to these men to create a very original way to face his financial problems. This film to my mind was the best Comedy in the Nineties, sharing honors with Delicatessen. Full laughs! Don't miss it.
