It is very light hearted… Twee in fact but it is also a feel good movie, esp after consuming wine ;) The music is great, drag scenes very reminiscent of Priscilla Queen of the desert (which I love!!!)Predictable but if you are just in need of a light, good fun watch, this is for you…

The cast was likeable and the story was sweet. The best parts were the songs performed in drag by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

...and yet, this movie is: easy to slip into and watch. Kinky Boots follows in the tradition of other British comedies like The Full Monty or Saving Grace; movies in which people that are hard on their luck go to unlikely measures to save themselves (full-frontal stripping, drug trafficking, creating fetishwear), and learn something about love, life, or themselves in the process. Kinky Boots is predictable, maybe, and not quite as good as the other two, but still fun. And one big, loud, and unbelievable reason is Chiwetel Ejiofor as the drag queen Lola: his performance is great, and the movie would be worthwhile for his musical numbers alone. The other actors do a good job; Sarah-Jane Potts is cute and sassy, and Nick Frost is bigoted but still lovable. In fact, nearly everyone in the movie is likable, or at least attempting to be, and that eventually gets annoying. By making all the characters inoffensive, the movie suffers from being a little plain. And really, Kinky Boots’s biggest problem is that it’s too, well, vanilla. Then again, maybe it’s just like the main character in “I Want To Be Evil”: not really evil, just slightly naughy. “I want to be evil / And cheat at jacks.” Fun and fluffy, Kinky Boots worth a rental if you like that sort of thing.

No surprises, but still entertaining.