If you bought into the delightful cult character of Frank Sidebottom back in the day, be warned that this film takes its tenuous links into much darker territory. It is always interesting, occasionally hilarious and at times deliberately quirky, but the film undecidedly vacillates between championing independent free-thinking creativity and puncturing the pomposity of ridiculous self-indulgent artistic expression, before hurtling into an unsettling mix of mental illness and David Lynch in the final act. Frank boasts a range of well-played oddball characters, from Fassbender's excellent physical central performance and Domhnall Gleeson as the budding songwriter drawn into this alternative band and lifestyle to well-drawn characters by Maggie Gyllenhaal and Scoot McNairy as other band-members. Perhaps more challenging than outright enjoyable, Frank is nevertheless entertaining.
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