Overall, it's breezy, forgettable fluff, but 'kinky'? Obviously, the term is relative.

| Jun 24, 2006

...If you've seen The Full Monty (or Waking Ned Devine or Calendar Girls or Billy Elliot) then this film's surprises will be few and far between, although no less pleasant for it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2006

It's a predictable and preachy stab at a comedy with heart, and its subversive silliness is eclipsed by an overwrought humanity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2006

It's a feel-good movie that happens to dress in drag.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 18, 2006

Oh, do come in, love -- welcome to the Twee Brit Comedy Factory.

Full Review | Original Score: D | May 13, 2006

Don't let the title toss you. The accent on this charmer about a shoe-factory owner who finds a muse of economic recovery in a drag queen rests on the boots more than the kinks.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2006

Kinky Boots sounds like some kind of fetish fantasy, but it's actually a good-natured and rather sweet British comedy that charmingly touches on issues of manhood and friendship.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 28, 2006

The movie is a bit of all right, as they say down at the Nob & Gobbler.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Gradually, boots and transvestite jokes become window dressing for a more touching story about the bond between Lola/Simon, a disowned son, and Charlie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

[Ejiofor] gives us the real kinky; everything else here is just an assembly-line boot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Lola, at least the way Ejiofor plays her, has a sad story she's eager to tell. The movie never entirely figures out what to do with this.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

It would be nice to be able to report that Kinky Boots is a kick in the pants. But this conventional, manipulative British import feels like a re-soled pair of shoes that unquestionably have seen their day.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 20, 2006

Director Julian Jarrold and screenwriters Geoff Deane and Tim Firth trade in hackneyed dualities.

| Apr 20, 2006

Quite enjoyable, effortlessly well-done on every level, even moving at times, but relatively light weight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2006

With Kinky Boots, we find ourselves watching another one of those British comedies in which unconventional sex is surrounded by a conventional story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2006

The main problem is that it's not very kinky at all.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2006

The only thing kinky about this movie is its title. But maybe there's an upside to this: Parents, if you want to teach the kids about sexual difference without having to deal with sex, here's your chance. Have I mentioned it's heartwarming? That too.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Kinky Boots shoehorns what should be a fresh story into the same old pair of narrative galoshes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Title notwithstanding, it should be noted that Kinky Boots isn't remotely racy. Not only won't it offend grandma -- she'll probably enjoy this uplifting comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2006

Despite the subject matter, the script and direction are disappointingly conventional, though the performances are appealingly spirited.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 14, 2006