Embodying the early life of Paul Potts, a young talented and well-known singer, who throughout his way to fame, faces many challenges and obstacles, as he works as a shop assistant in day and a singer in opera in night, but when he wins the title of Britain Got Talent, he gains fame and celebrities.
David Frankel's film reduces an extraordinary life to a predictable template of bullying, resolve, success, disappointment, and platitudes - a pattern repeated two or three times until the genuinely moving finale.
As sweet as the story is -- and as charming as James Corden is in the lead role -- it's mostly a safe, forgettable film steeped in a by-the-numbers blandness.
There's never really terribly much at stake here, except the success of one chubby nerd with dreams of nailing Puccini's "Nessun dorma." But maybe that dream is enough.