By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * *)
You've seen the Olympics, seen the stage show, now rent the video. Director Dein Perry has adapted Bootmen from his stage show, which visited New Zealand after the Games.
In Newcastle — the Aussie one, not the other place where they made a dance movie
recently — Sean (Adam Garcia) dreams of becoming a dancer. His steelworker father can't abide the idea. Sean hotfoots it to Sydney, leaving his virginal girlfriend Linda (Sophia Lee) and car-thief brother Mitchell.
In Sydney, Sean impresses the hard-nosed choreographer (William Zappa), upsets the star (Perry), gets fired and goes back home where he finds Mitchell has got lonely Linda drunk and deprived her of what she was saving for Sean.
The steel mills close, Sean decides to retool the place as a dotcom and put on a benefit concert. In a twist on The Full Monty he trains his buddies as tapdancers — yep, it's Fred Astaire meets the Village People. Funny how macho these Aussie Village People are, though.
Running time: 95 mins
Rental: Now
