UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

SnoopyStyle 'Strange Fruit' was a 70s rock band of excesses. Their last gig in 1977 was cut short by a lightning strike. Twenty years later, keyboardist Tony Costello (Stephen Rea) is looking to reunite the band. Karen Knowles was the band's gofer who is now a single mom to Clare (Rachael Stirling) with a hotel job. Bassist Les Wickes does roofing. Lead singer Ray Simms (Bill Nighy) is now sober but hasn't produced a thing. Drummer Beano Baggot (Timothy Spall) works in the nursery, lives in a trailer on his mother's property and running from the tax woman. Lead guitarist Brian Lovell seems to be dead. Their roadie Hughie Case (Billy Connolly) shows up with all their old gear. They find a new lead guitarist in young Luke Shand.This is a likable group of actors and characters. There are some emotional drama and a few good laughs. It's a nice light-hearted comedy. It could be funnier and there is room to be wackier. The songs could also be better. Nevertheless, the group is sweet and they have good chemistry together.

WakenPayne In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance. Is This Going To Be Remembered By The Oscars? No, Is This Top 250 Material? No, Is This The Funniest Thing I Have Seen In A Long Time? Yes. Now This Music Is Surprisingly Good. All The Performances Were Outstanding...Especially Bill Nighy Because He Was Supposed To Be Playing A Flaky Character & He Does It Well. This Is One Great Movie. I Won't Go Poking Holes In This Movie Because It Sounds Kinda Bad When The Director Died 6 Years Ago. At Times Like Watching This You Wonder If Your Favourite Band Acts Like This...I Doubt Evanescence, 3 Days Grace Or Poets Of The Fall Act Like This...Still Other Bands Might. All In All A Funny Movie.

Neil Welch Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais have a solid hit rate as far as their TV work is concerned. However, their film work has been much more chequered (2008's The Bank Job was fine, the previous year's Across The Universe decidedly weak, for instance).Still Crazy, fortunately, is a solid success. It has a great story, excellent performances, a lot of humour, fabulous music and, above everything else, real heart.I savour "moments", and this film has one of them - just when everything is going pear-shaped at the festival reunion performance...Hugely enjoyable.

HoBopkins Horrible film. This is a bore fest and rips off "Spinal Tap". Well, it doesn't exactly, but it tries for that funny fictional rock band thing. This movie is supposed to be taken seriously, unlike "Spinal Tap", and that's what makes it such a pretentious bore. For one thing, Tap's music is classic. It's bad, but classic. In other words it's supposed to be bad, and for bad, it's awesome. The music in this flick, that is, the original songs that we're supposed to believe were once classic tunes, are god-awful. Worse than "On the Dark Side" by "Eddie and the Cruisers", if you can believe it. I think it's very difficult to make a film that's supposed to be taken seriously (even if it's a comedy) about a (fictional) famous band, or composer, if you can't write music to back up what the story is about. You can do this with a writer; that is, make a film centering a fictional famous author, because his work doesn't have to show; just make him a brooding, somber, strange and deeply troubled guy and you're in. But with a band, you must play their music to back up why we're supposed to believe they're geniuses. I think they based the main "genius" guy, who is lost for years and presumed dead, on either Brian Jones or Syd Barrett or Jim Morrison or all three. This guy was, or rather is, supposed to be the lost Mozart of rock, and the song that he wrote, that was supposed to be of "Stairway to Heaven" or "Freebird" legacy, sounds more like something the producer or writer or director or gaffer or even best boy of the film wrote in two minutes. Anyhow, it's a horrible, horrible film, one of those "cult movies" that, while being made, was considered "a cult movie to be"... or something. Avoid it even at no costs.