Mike B Really a Fun movie to watch.Its got energy, its got laughs – and Soul!Character interactions are Great. There's plenty of rivalry. It's a band that's starting out and trying to put itself together. The lead manager played by Robert Arkins holds the film together and is the centerpiece. Nothing ever goes smoothly with plenty of cussin' and shoving and pushing. Great dialogue but the sub-titles helped me in the understanding.The music is superb – once they get their act together.There is not a dull moment from beginning to end.

mjdalton45 Jimmy Rabbitte Jr., who lives on small gimmicks in a proletarian district of Dublin, has put her mind to organize a musical band for greening the glories of rhythm blues and soul &. Thanks to an ad in the newspaper, Rabbitte Jr. begins to select young people from precarious work but full of talent: Dean, Fay, 595, the bespectacled Steven Clifford, Deco, the fat one without good manners but with a great voice, Billy drummer and Joey "The lips", a bizarre and mature senior trumpet player who prides himself on having played with famous soul singers. Aggregates also Natalie, Imelda and Bernie, three plucky girls, excellent singers and very sexy. Procuratisi on credit instruments, begin trials, exhausting, that engage everyone. He began playing in public, in sheds and social festivities: the Group seems pervaded by music fire and ambition. The band, though amateurish and provincial, looks towards the Summit launched and ends in failure: friction, jealousies and small human and artistic disagreements, the Group flaking. Jimmy's dream evaporates into thin air and that great wealth of energy and skill that could yield money and success: siPL dissipates into nothingness.

Robert J. Maxwell A couple of working class kids in Dublin decide to put together a band that mirrors the soul music of the USA in the 1960s. Not the Beatles, not Elvis, but do-wop and Motown. "The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And North Enders are the blacks of Dublin!" As they audition other young semi-hoods of varying talents, I kept thinking of what a curious diffusionary path this musical style -- with its African rhythms and call-and-response technique -- had taken: from West Africa, on slave ships to the Southern US, morphed into Christian gospel music, adapted by Detroit, and back across the ocean to Dublin.It's not a style I groove to. The three young ladies who are backup singers are, by and large, okay, but the lead singers screeches and shouts and weeps with simulated transport. The sidemen on alto sax and trumpet are kewl, however, although one chides the other for spiralling -- "That's JAZZ." It's a movie that elicits smiles rather than laughter. The young folks are all pretty quirky and have problems dealing with unemployment and baby sitting. There's an almost constant use of a word pronounced "fook" or "fewk," which I take to be some kind of Dublin slang, possibly relating to fish and chips.And there ARE a number of smiles in it. They watch tapes of performances by one of their heroes, James Brown, who does his emoting on stage, then falls to the floor after one particularly strenuous number, as if knee-capped. Aides rush to him, help him to his feet and guide him off stage. "Fluke!", says one of the kids, "Oi'd bust me knees!" Another assures him, "It's all part of the ACT." If you enjoyed "The Full Monte," which appeared six years later, you'll get a kick out of this. Also if you grew up during the Motown era.

Gordon-11 This film is about a bunch of deprived people in a slum area forming a band. They hope to make it big with their soul music.I find "The Commitments" tedious and boring. The characters engage in endless tirade, shouting profanities at each other constantly. The way they treat each other is simply sad. The clothes they wear are all dismally coloured. Furthermore, the film is set in a deprived area, meaning unattractive sets and locations. All these things make the film unattractive to me. It is made worse by the poor lighting. Many scenes are poorly lit. A scene featuring the tour bus going down the road is a prime example. The cameraman obviously focused on the sky, making the road, houses and the bus very dark."The Commitments" sounds like an uplifting film with heart and soul. But I was wrong. It is dismal, hostile and unlikable.