Sing Street has pluck and charm to spare, and it plays out with a terrific sense of humour that gleefully sees us to the final moment—even if there is little doubt where that final destination is going to be.
Just as with Once and Begin Again, Sing Street will make you laugh, cry and leave you humming its songs for days.
Like a great pop song, Once director John Carney’s comedy about schoolboys in 1980s Dublin who form a band, is over much too soon.
The disappointment here is that Sing Street doesn't sustain its early momentum and becomes ever more maudlin, melodramatic and earnest the longer it lasts.
Coming after Once and Begin Again it offers further proof of director John Carney’s ability to make crowd-pleasing musical dramas with a lingering, bittersweet aftertaste.
The original music is abysmal, the period details are all over the place and the acting is cringe-worthy.
After Once and Begin Again, Irish writer-director John Carney makes it a hat-trick of delightful rites-of-passage musical films with his latest, Sing Street.
Happy sad indeed. I laughed, I cried, I bought the soundtrack album.
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