Comment on Eddie the Eagle Review

I’ve got vague memories of watching Eddie Edwards fail at the 1988 Winter Olympics and return to Great Britain a hero. It was all very confusing and contradictory, with Edwards a loser so celebrated that for months he seemed to be a permanent fixture on TV, even releasing one of the worst singles in UK chart history. But against the odds, this unlikely superstar captured the imagination of a nation, and Eddie the Eagle endeavours to tell his remarkable story in suitably inspiring, uplifting and – by taking few liberties with the truth – oftentimes quite affecting fashion. Fresh from playing a rough-and-ready secret agent in Kingsman, Taron Egerton is all grimaces and gurns as Eddie, a youngster determined to make his Olympic dream a reality, in spite of the fact that – during his formative years at least – he had very little in the way of sporting prowess. Continue reading…