Eddie The Eagle
- 2016 film
Win or lose, always aim high. The story of Great Britain's first ski jumper to enter the Winter Olympics. Stars Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Keith Allen, Jo Hartley, Tim McInnerny and more.
Streaming rank this week: 759
Press clippings
Eddie The Eagle is slight but lovely
By turns clichéd and innovative, Eddie the Eagle is the quirkiest of films. But it truly captures the spirit of its subject matter, and by the time he reaches his biggest and scariest challenge, it's impossible not to find yourself rooting for him.
Esther McCarthy, Sunday World, 7th April 2016Eddie The Eagle - review
Biopic of unlikely Olympian is corny and derivative but inoffensive.
David Edwards, The Mirror, 1st April 2016Eddie the Eagle: review
High-flying no-hoper finds feelgood nirvana.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 1st April 2016Eddie the Eagle review
They don't come along that often but this is a bona fide crowd-pleaser of a movie by a director who knows how to rouse his audience with genuinely affectionate storytelling and characters with whom you relish spending time.
Ross Miller, The National (Scotland), 1st April 2016Film review: Eddie The Eagle
Eddie The Eagle - "based on a true story", though I'd say very loosely based - is very funny.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st April 2016Eddie The Eagle will melt your heart
As this lovely, affectionate film shows us, however, he was much more than a joke. Yes, with his thick glasses and prominent underbite, Eddie was nobody's idea of an athlete but, in his mind, that's all he was.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 1st April 2016Eddie the Eagle review: 'Cornball and comic-strip'
The heroically inept British ski-jumper gets a clumsy, cartoonish movie.
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times, 31st March 2016Eddie the Eagle misses out on cameo role
Were you not tempted to play a part in the film yourself? "I was hoping I would! I was hoping I would be a bit like Alfred Hitchcock - he gets a cameo in all his films. I was thinking: 'Please ask me, please ask me!' And they never did."
Lauren Turner, BBC News, 30th March 2016Eddie the Eagle review
Taron Egerton flies in this comedic, partly fictionalised biopic of the unlikely ski jumping star.
James Mottram, The List, 24th March 2016Eddie the Eagle review
The surprising thing is that Eddie The Eagle has taken this long to reach the screen. But fittingly, getting it made was a battle against the odds.
Brian Viner, Daily Mail, 18th March 2016