Brent and I threw "Kinky Boots" in the DVD player earlier this week. It's a rather conventional British comedy. As it plays you will realize that you've seen this movie before, only in other forms with other actors.
But what separates "Kinky Boots" from the others is the performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor. He plays Lola, the drag queen in which Joel Edgerton's Charlie Price believes he can make the perfect pair of women's boots...boots that will withstand the weight of a full grown man in drag.
Ejiofor doesn't do the typical "man pretending to be a woman" routine, but rather plays the character simply as a drag queen - without the stereotypes. It's one of the best male performances I've seen this year and worthy of an Oscar nod.
I give the movie three stars and suggest you give it a look.
