Customer Review

brilliant gritty feel to this movie, good acting and good screenplay with excellent cinematography, use of lighting etc

...but my word of caution is that not only is this not widescreen, it is NOT even pan&scan, so in effect, the image is constantly zeroed in on the middle of the screen, and as this was shot in widescreen, quite often the characters are at either ends of a wide shot, but on the dvd, you hear dialogue, then maybe a hand flips into the screen for a moment. This does not happen often, but it does mean that in general you feel you are missing a dimension i.e. at least you would usually get the shot centred on the face of the character talking instead of seeing half of two characters heads.

So why should you buy or rent this? It is currently the only way you will see this movie, which although corny in places, shows that Slade were more than just 'Here It Is Merry Christmas..'and really try to explode the rock star myth like David Essex's 'Stardust' does.

The soundtrack is excellent - musically deeper than the glam rock they were famous for.

It really is just an inexplicable waste of an opportunity to show it in widescreen though, which would have made all the difference, hence the two stars only - content-wise I would give it 4.