Dexter Fletcher’s film celebrates doughty British spirit in this classy,comedian tale of a true-life sporting underdogThe true tale of Britain’s unlikely ski-jumping hero Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards is pitched as an archetypal ugly duckling, triumph-against-the-odds heartwarmer – a comedian Chariots of Fire on the piste, or Billy Elliot on a steep diagonal. Kingsman: The Secret Service’s’s Taron Egerton is the NHS-spectacled,milk-drinking “plucky plasterer” who stole the show at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics with his creditable jumps and his comical flapping-bird gestures – living proof of Emily Dickinson’s dictum, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”.
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Source: theguardian.com