Review of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) by Dave J — 08 Feb 2010
Andy Serkis is just wonderful as Ian Dury, brilliantly capturing his earthy eloquence and rogueish charisma. The film is an entertaining, stylised account of some parts of Dury's story, but I found its emphasis odd and unbalanced.
The awfulness of the school for disabled boys the young Dury was sent to is laboured over, there are vignettes about his son Baxter of varying interest, and yet the commercial peak of Dury and The Blockheads is fairly raced through - and there is nothing of Dury's later life.
His disappearance in the Eighties, and then his courageous return to performing just as cancer was overwhelming him, could surely have made a fascinating final act. Still, this is well worth seeing for Serkis alone.
This review of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) was written by Dave J on 08 Feb 2010.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll has generally received positive reviews.
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