Based on David Walliams children's book, The Boy in the Dress is a film with a subversive message about the celebration of diversity.
Young Dennis is an ordinary schoolboy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street. Apart from the fact that his mum left them leaving his dad to raise Dennis and his brother single handedly.
Dennis is good at football although the school captain does not appreciate his sporting skills. However Dennis likes fashion, haute couture. He buys fashion magazines as it brings colour to his life.
Helped by Lisa a fellow pupil who is always in trouble at school for breaching the uniform policy. Dennis transforms to a visiting french pupil, Denise as he shows up to school in a dress and turns head.
However it is not long before Denise is exposed at school, the strict headmaster is less than pleased with his shenanigans and gross breach of the school uniform policy.
The Boy in the Dress is a pleasant whimsical film, with many trademark plot points that we have now come to expect from David Walliams adaptations. Some grotesque characters such as the headmaster, Raj the shopkeeper and a father who is doing his best but all at sea being a single father.
