Review of Pride

Pride (I) (2014)
2/10
Sappy and unrealistic
24 December 2014
Warning: Spoilers
A film about gay pride in the 1980's set against a miner labor strike. This film is so incredibly gay friendly it comes off as extremely unrealistic and clichéd. Full of bright 80's colors, Boy George music, people who become gay's pals in a 5 min span after a lifetime of nonacceptance and the obligatory religious nut hell bent on bringing everyone apart. It even has tough miners asking the gay guys to teach them to dance.

The silliest scene in the movie is the disco dance they have in the town hall where one guy dances on the table to the spontaneous cheers of 60 year old Christian miners.

I guess this would be a fun film for a young person who has absolutely no idea what the 80's in the UK really were like.

Better to watch the Clash film "Rude boy" or almost anything other than this bubble gum.

Think "The Full Monty" meets "Mama Mia"
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