YMMV / The Commitments

• Awesome Music: Most of the soundtrack, but In the Midnight Hour stands out.
  • Try a Little Tenderness.
  • At the Dark End of the Street.
  • And of course, Mustang Sally.
  • For a while, every other movie trailer used this version of Treat Her Right.
  • Joey and Bernie get it on to the theme song from Shaft.
• Funny Moments: Jimmy encouraging the band to "Say it once, say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud."
  • Even better, Dean later announces his "blackness" to a stunned group of kids.
  • After Joey meets with Jimmy and agrees to join the band, he hops on his motorcycle and leaves just as Jimmy's father steps out of the house.
  Mr. Rabbitte: What'd Evel Knievel want?
  Jimmy: God sent him.
  Mr. Rabbitte: Wha'?
  Jimmy: God sent him!
  Mr. Rabbitte: On a fuckin' Suzuki?
  • While they're auditioning band members, one person admits he doesn't play an instrument and has no musical experience. When asked why he's there, he replies that he saw the line of people and assumed they were buying drugs.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • The Corrs all have parts in the film. Andrea plays Jimmy's younger sister (ironically named Sharon, like her own older sister in real life), while Jim, Caroline, and Sharon have cameo roles as musicians.
  • A young Glen Hansard plays Outspan.
  • Catharine of Aragon sings a smokin' cover of Bye Bye Baby.
• Values Dissonance: Joey's rant about how black jazz musicians are somehow betraying their own people was already pretty dodgy coming from a white Irish guy, and wouldn't go down well at all in the 2020s.

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