Lazy Film Critic Movie Reviews
Sing Street
So I've been doing some catch up recently, and I just finished watching Sing Street. This film follows a teenager who forms a futurist pop-rock band to impress a girl he has a crush on, pretty simple stuff. Now this was a movie I was hesitant to watch for a while, it didn't look like anything too special to me, just another run-of-the-mill coming of age story. However, after having it recommended to me by multiple people, I decided to go check it out, and to my surprise it was actually pretty impressive, I finally get why this movie has received the high amount of praise it has.
A lot of what makes Sing Street good is how good the cast is overall, a lot of the actors playing the teenagers in this movie are legit teenagers which in itself is kind of rare and nice to see, and they all do a good job. The few teenagers not played by teenagers are also convincing enough to not break the illusion, it's a nice change in pace from the usual way teenagers are played in Hollywood. The two lead performances in particular really impressed me, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo and Lucy Boynton both gave pretty great performances here and I'm hoping this film launches good careers for them because they seriously deserve it.
At its core, Sing Street is a character-driven film, so as you'd expect, this film is largely driven by how these characters not only develop but how they interact and the dynamic between them. Not only are the various character dynamics in this film really believable, they're also really well done and very appealing to the audience. And a lot of this is helped by the fact that this cast had amazing chemistry with one another. For any movie chemistry and character dynamic is important, but its especially relevant in group driven films like Band movies, and they knock it out of the park.
Sing Streets real hook, however, is its music and 80s style. What I liked about the 80s theme in this movie was just how real it felt. A pattern I've seen a few times this year is that most stuff set in the 70s-80s managed to do a good job of making it believable and charming. And as I said, this is a band movie, so you can bet there's a lot of music, and the music is fantastic. The style is fairly broad so I feel like anyone who listens to any 80s music should like the soundtrack to this movie.
Final Rating
If I had to pick one word to describe Sing Street, it'd be "charming". This film has an appealing style and likable nature in a way I'd consider kind of rare for a movie, and it never oversteps its bounds. In fact, for a high school movie this movie for the most part stays fairly grounded, but knows when to be realistic and when to be escapism, and I can respect that. This is an enjoyably minimalist film, and I really hope you all try to find a way of watching it.
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