Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)

A hit and miss affair this. The story of how Ian Dury overcame the twin handicaps of polio and the worst forename in the English language, it manages to include some pretty balanced and honest story-telling (I imagine, I'm no expert on Ian Dury) and an utterly fantastic Andy Serkis performance with some bizarre sequences of pop-art styled Peter Blake artwork and some very unsuccessful Vaudevillian segments which bring to mind last year's terrible Bronson.

Apart from the lead performance, the best thing I can say to commend Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is that it leads you to want to listen to more of Ian Dury's music, which is no bad thing at all.

Try to ignore the clumsy sub-plot with the increasingly ubiquitous Bill Milner's fear of swimming which references Dury's water-borne polio infection and his later struggles to accept maturity and responsibility and enjoy the film for what it is. A pretty good biopic.