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The film takes a surrealist path to relating the rocker's journey from polio-stricken kid to top-of-the-charts entertainer.

LONDON -- Rowdy and a bit ragged but wholly entertaining, Mat Whitecross' "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" is a biopic of British punk rocker Ian Dury with a sensational lead performance by Andy Serkis, best known as Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" films.