A foolhardy plan on the part of mega-rich Yemeni Skeikh Muhammed to put his soon-to-be operative DAM together with 100,000 salmon imported from the UK and to start salmon fishing in his native Yemen is the basic story, with the requisite and all-too-obvious romance between fish expert Ewan McGregor and the Sheikh's project representative Emily Blunt.
Embellish that basic idea with some genuinely funny moments, a great cast, and a heartwarming story and you have a film that is genuinely charming.
"Charming" is a word I'd rarely use to describe a movie, particularly in a positive way. It would normally be used ironically, as in "that romantic comedy with Justin Bieber playing the action-centric lead was just charming". But this Salmon Fishing lark was genuinely charming, in a warm, positive way. No ironic subtext here. Honest.
Right, I'm off to see me some Disney films!
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