Loved the music, but shame about the Pet Shop Boys' only film venture to date, which is no more than a series of videos - and a mixed bunch at that - masquerading as a movie. Unfortunately, the first quarter of the film is by far the worst and the whole enterprise never recovers. Director Jack Bond obviously has an eye for surrealistic visual but some of the dialogue he co-wrote with James Dillon is embarrassingly bad. Such choreography as there is in the dozen or so musical numbers is mediocre at best. So to the songs: moody, well-written stuff with backgrounds that show great care and invention and are very interesting musically speaking, some of the most original sound to emerge from the pop world since the Sixties. Pet Shop Boys fans will watch it anyway, but generally one's advice to the guys is to stick to the albums: emphasising their own moroseness hardly lends spark to the laboured seaside postcard charades here.

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