The Boy in the Dress
2014
Comedy / Drama / Family
The Boy in the Dress
2014
Comedy / Drama / Family
6.4/10
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Plot summary
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and brother, but frustrated by the boring grey world he inhabits. Life has never really been the same since his mum left. However, transformation can happen in the most unexpected places. Aided by Lisa, the coolest girl in the school, Dennis creates a whole new persona and puts it to the ultimate test - but can a boy wear a dress, and what will the headmaster, his dad and his friends on the football team think if they find out?
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Movie Reviews
Being different is okay... as long as you have an exploitable skill.
Not bad Christmas viewing.
Adaptations of the children's books by David Walliams have become a sort of fixture of the Christmas TV schedules, and this was the third of these.
I enjoyed the first one 'Mr Stink', but I found this one to be a little dull if I'm honest. It has its moments, and the message behind it is good, but I didn't find the cast to be as full of big names as previous adaptations, and crucially for only an hour film, it dragged.
The lad playing Dennis does well and he is ably supported by the always fun James Buckley as a PE teacher and Harish Patel as Raj. I didn't find Jennifer Saunders role particularly funny at all though.
It is a well made adaptation though, and well worth watching on DVD.