Well Mamma Mia was Abba songs put to music mixed in with a storyline set in a romantic Greek island.
Sunshine on Leith is songs by The Proclaimers with a story involving two squaddies who have served in Afghanistan. One of their mates has been injured in a roadside bombing and they have left the army and returned to their family and an uncertain future or more accurately a job in a call centre.
I thought at first if there would be enough catchy songs here given that like most people in Britain over the age of 40 we would only be familiar with two of the songs by The Proclaimers that were hits back in 1986.
However this low budget musical acquits itself well. It is rather cheesy, many of the songs are good enough which rather suggests that The Proclaimers deserve to be better known for their other songs.
The actors even Peter Mullan put in a lot of gusto in the song and dance numbers, although I think Jane Horrocks looked too young to be his wife.
It is a slight story involving tangled romances and ghosts of the past. I did think the bittersweet romantic story of the two soldiers did not really work for me. I liked the rousing finishing song and dance number and although there are some nice scenes set in Edinburgh, I would had to have seen more of Leith itself.
Sunshine on Leith is songs by The Proclaimers with a story involving two squaddies who have served in Afghanistan. One of their mates has been injured in a roadside bombing and they have left the army and returned to their family and an uncertain future or more accurately a job in a call centre.
I thought at first if there would be enough catchy songs here given that like most people in Britain over the age of 40 we would only be familiar with two of the songs by The Proclaimers that were hits back in 1986.
However this low budget musical acquits itself well. It is rather cheesy, many of the songs are good enough which rather suggests that The Proclaimers deserve to be better known for their other songs.
The actors even Peter Mullan put in a lot of gusto in the song and dance numbers, although I think Jane Horrocks looked too young to be his wife.
It is a slight story involving tangled romances and ghosts of the past. I did think the bittersweet romantic story of the two soldiers did not really work for me. I liked the rousing finishing song and dance number and although there are some nice scenes set in Edinburgh, I would had to have seen more of Leith itself.