Kinky Boots (2005)

What is it about British comedies that is so hilarious? Maybe it's that country's image of pomposity alongside with sexual innuendos that just amps the comedy so much higher.

Now mix in some drag queen humor and I'm set. I do love drag queens.

"Kinky Boots" is a movie that has skimmed under the radar of the masses. What a shame. This was a movie worthy of more attention than it received.

The movie involves a young man, Charlie, who has just inherited a boot making company. Unfortunately, the company is in decline unless Charlie can come up with a way to save it. He is inspired by a drag queen whose boot wear are spectacular but poorly made. After a few sputtering starts, they are able to manufacture strong and beautiful footwear suitable for the glamorous, strutting drag queens.

There is such a stark contract of the dreay factory worker lifestyle from the sparkly queens .It becomes an obvious tale of the intermingling of two different ideas. The ideas do not adhere cohesively at first but as they say with physics: with enough force, you can overcome the resistance and join them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the fabulous drag queen, Lola. He is the one who makes the movie. There are awesome costumes and a great fashion show segment at the end. There are thoughts about the drag queen culture and close-minded-ness scattered across the movie but it doesn't try to make it the focal point of it.

What I came away with from the movie was that there are many ideas and solutions out there. Sometimes they're just in very surprising places. Don't give up hope or dreams. It's one of my inspiring movies to lift me up from a dreary long work day.