I just watched this and I have some thoughts to share:

1) The casting of Foggy as a kid blew my mind. I kept thinking to myself – that smile is familiar but I’d seen him as a grownup in the bakery so I figured it was a kid brother/son or something. The whole ‘old footage’ thing was weird and cool but mostly weird, especially as adult him was a whole different character.

2) The sex in the bakery couldn’t have been hygienic. Feel free to laugh at me but that was my … second thought on watching that scene.

3) The second half was much smoother than the first half, the first half was kinda like a crack film and I was thinking “man I watch some weird stuff for Robert Carlyle” but it did get better and make more sense.

4) Frank Keane’s smile is adorable and I wanted to hug him when he looked sad or was crying. It reminded of that recent tumblr post that was going round about when Robert Carlyle cries, we all cry.

5) I liked how the whole grief group wound up going to the dance class.

6) The whole Lisa thing was sad. What if that guy had made it? He’d been holding onto that promise for 40 years and then bam, that’s some disappointment.

7) The trailers before the movie on the DVD were epic long. I have never heard of such long trailers ever.

As movies go I wouldn’t recommend it on it’s own merits but then it’s not my genre at all. For fans of Robert Carlyle though, yeah I’d recommend it on that basis 🙂 I’m watching California Solo tomorrow so I’ll see how that compares!