Soul Men

With all the recent come backs and re-formings of any number of bands, from Blur to Roxy Music and Take That to Bananarama, there is a good comedy to be made about the perils, insecurities and pitfalls to be found when bringing the old gang back together.

Soul Men is not it though. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Getting two ageing, funny and, lets be honest, big names together for this comedy (in the loosest possible sense of the word) would be seen as an opportunity for writers to get some good material on paper and to make an 'Odd Couple' type film. Instead I had to endure the two leads shouting and swearing at each other while viagra and sex 'gags' float like tumbleweed behind them. Of course, the writers realise that this is not enough to keep a movie going for a sustained period of time so they do have a plot up there sleeve, in the form of a load of tripe about some long lost daughter and a gangster with a broken arm. This still doesn't fill the 90-odd minute running time so padding is required in the form of four or five songs where Mac and Jackson perform some of the most unconvincing miming ever witnessed in Cinema.

After seeing so many serious music bio-pics, Crazy Heart, Walk The Line, Control, etc, it would be nice to have a light hearted look at the record industry and how hunger for fame never goes away despite the advancing years. It would also be nice if we weren't insulted by people being paid to make this sort of rubbish, but we can't have everything can we?


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