Directed by: Peter Cattaneo
Written by: Simon Beaufoy
Six unemployed steel workers decided to become strippers to make some money, and on a whim they decide to go for the full monty - complete nudity.
I've owned this movie forever because it's on a box with A Fish Named Wanda and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The latter doesn't interest me at all, and the former is the reason I bought the box in the first place. I thought it was finally time to see this movie.
I don't know how many movies there are out there about male strippers, professional or no. The only one I've seen besides The Full Monty was Magic Mike, which turned into some kind of weird drama which I didn't expect. Still, I liked it. Now The Full Monty didn't turn into a weird drama. The main character's reasons were serious from the very beginning - he wanted to afford joint custody of his son. Still they manage to go through the movie with comedy instead of this movie being completely serious movie, because that couldn't work as well as this does.
One thing I especially like about this film is that the men all look different and they're not all as fit as the blokes on Magic Mike. (If only we'd have similar diversity in body types when it comes to women in movies.) And still even if they had doubts about their own bodies they still managed to go on stage. That's admirable and inspiring.
The Full Monty is a very charming movie. It's funny yet touching, and there just is that something that any american remake could never have - so hopefully there won't be any remakes, because those would fail spectacularly.
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
7 / 10
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