*Finally* watched the movie tonight... I enjoyed it, of course I did. But it wasn't without disappointments. The movie chose to focus most of the story on James' relationship with his father, and his girlfriend (Betty), and with his social worker (Val), mostly to the exclusion of James and Bob's adventures as street musicians and big issue sellers, and those tacked on bits were pretty lame imo (especially "Betty" who is now this hippy, straight-arrow do-gooder who constantly badgers James about his drug habits only to dump him ironically when he gets clean).
Also it becomes really annoying to anyone who knows cats that they throw in this constant array of fake cat noises whenever bob is on-screen (including these peculiar dog-like growls). Sheesh.
Oh well, it's still worth watching. And unless I'm mistaken, I think I caught a glimpse of the real James Bowen making a cameo in the movie. Pretty neat. And of course Bob is an awesome cat.
I can't believe that I'm apparently the only one in this forum that has now seen the movie