The Crippendales

Lee Kemp was hit off his motorcycle by one car and thrown into the path of another car when he was younger. Since then he has been in a wheelchair. With interests of dancing and taking his kit off, he decides that the chair will not hold him back from his ambition of being a stripper and, with a group of other "physically challenged" amateurs, forms a male stripper group and sets a deadline to perform at a local club.I can see what this film could have been and perhaps did aspire to be at the start but really it is very little more than a fly-on-the-wall documentary about a collection of men coming together to strip. The fact that they are disabled is the hook but nothing more interesting is done with it than is suggested in the arrestingly non-PC title. I'm not sure why but the film never seems to try to get beyond the laddish character to penetrate their characters and see what it really means to them to be able to perform in this way ? maybe it doesn't actually mean anything to them than a laugh but I doubt it, although one wouldn't know it from the film generally.This leaves us with a disabled, scaled down version of the Full Monty on the surface and nothing underneath, which I found pretty valueless even if it was short. Even the comments from the women at the end are pointless with the obvious "yeah, why not" type of thing being said. In fact I did find it a bit depressing to think that Lee's act of defiance against his physical condition was, in reality, him and his ma