Synopsis

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

"IF YOU'RE GOING TO SEE JUST ONE MOVIE THIS YEAR, MAKE IT SING STREET!"
- POPCORN REVIEW

If you're going to see just one movie this year, make it Sing Street. It's a foot-tapping, spirit-lifting original musical that will leave you humming your way out of the cinema when the credits roll about being young, having dreams and rock n roll. Most of all, it will make you miss being irrepressibly hopeful, remember your own growing pains, and recall just how awesome the 80s were.

Sing Street has a simple premise that promises (and delivers) nothing but fun. Conor, (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), the new boy at a public school in Dublin, Ireland, (and therefore, the default outcast and punching bag) sees a cute older girl in the street (Lucy Boynton). He makes up a band to impress her, and gets her digits under the pretext of casting her in their music video. An ingenious ploy, now all he needs to do is find himself a band, and learn to not suck at something he's never tried before.

Sing Street buzzes with a kind of magic - the young cast is uncommonly, uniformly good and intensely likeable to boot. From the madly charismatic main character to his motley crew of schoolboys, to his family (Game of Thrones fans can look forward to seeing Littlefinger's accent finally make some sense at home in Ireland as he plays despairing dad), it's the most enjoyable and interesting ensemble I've seen this year.

The soundtrack is amazing, with hints of the Cure, Duran Duran, Hall and Oates. It's a refreshing change from jukebox musical movies like Across the Universe. Really, Sing Street is a tribute to music videos that is so much more than a music video montage - it's an emotional story with a core that we all can relate with at any age. An anthem to the relentless belief of youth, that if you could just get out of here, then your life would actually begin.

VERDICT: MUST WATCH!!!

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