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Tenor Paul Potts (James Corden), a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night, becomes a singing sensation after appearing on the TV show 'Britain's Got Talent' in 2007.
David Frankel's film reduces an extraordinary life to a predictable template of bullying, resolve, success, disappointment, and platitudes - a pattern repeated two or three times until the genuinely moving finale.
As sweet as the story is -- and as charming as James Corden is in the lead role -- it's mostly a safe, forgettable film steeped in a by-the-numbers blandness.
There's never really terribly much at stake here, except the success of one chubby nerd with dreams of nailing Puccini's "Nessun dorma." But maybe that dream is enough.