To quote Pauline Kael (see above). This is one of those "slice of life" things that are made to illuminate the lives of the ordinary "little people" and give us insight into them.
Lots of short musical interludes with a clarinet signals the audience that the character of Poppy is cute, quirky and spunky and is about to do some cute, quirky and spunky thing.
Sally Hawkins is funny, but to hang a movie on her entire character's shtick and personality, is asking a lot. She is either a genuinely positive person or a complete goofball you decice.
Hate to sound like a crude American, but man those accents make it pretty hard to understand the actors at times.
The director Mike Leigh also wrote the story probably using his technique of improvising with the actors before actually settling down to write the screenplay.
Running time: 118 minutes.
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