Overall, it's breezy, forgettable fluff, but 'kinky'? Obviously, the term is relative.

...If you've seen The Full Monty (or Waking Ned Devine or Calendar Girls or Billy Elliot) then this film's surprises will be few and far between, although no less pleasant for it.

It's a predictable and preachy stab at a comedy with heart, and its subversive silliness is eclipsed by an overwrought humanity.

Kinky Boots takes a familiar narrative and turns it into something extraordinarily queer.