Andy Serkis is a great character actor, and is completely believable as Ian Dury, a UK punk rocker. Ian Dury was one of my heroes as a teenager for (probably literally!) spitting in the face of people who treated disabled people as less than human. His track "Spasticus" (think Sparticus) was a celebration of the UN international year of disabled persons in 1981, and was banned in the UK. The UN distanced themselves, and the track was probably not played on commercial radio anywhere. Growing up disabled, like Ian did, it meant a lot to me personally. This film had very limited theatrical release in Australia, and it was awesome to find it available as a rental on Amazon. I was going to title this review "I'm Spascticus" but decided I would prefer to have you read it!The movie not a documentary, including animation and fantasy, and jumping back and forth in his life. The title refers to one of the more well-known songs from Ian Dury and his band the Blockheads, referencing "sex & drugs & rock & roll" as the consolations of the working class (yes, the title of my review is taken from that song).The actors playing Ian's wife and his girlfriend were believable, and it was good to see two strong women in the film. It would have been good to have given them more screen time. Ian's relationship with his son is central to the movie, and is frequently contrasted with the relationship between Ian and his father. I found myself wondering about his father and why Ian was left in a "home" for disabled children (or "crippled children", as we were known back then). Parents of disabled children in the 1960s (in Australia and the UK) were often advised to put their kids into these institutions, but it wasn't universal. His mother is not present at all, and I wondered about her.The movie doesn't try to gloss over Ian's destructive behavior, typical of the time and place. To say he had flaws is understating it. Yet it's quite uplifting, ending with "Reasons to be Cheerful, part 3", which bounces along quite nicely.