"STICKS and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me…"

I often find that movie adaptations of books are more often than not an extreme let down. But in the case of Fifty Shades of Grey, it was the extreme opposite. My advice? Take a towel.

At the premier last night, I was both giggling and sitting in complete silence, feeling my knuckles turn white on the arm rests.

Fifty Shades of Grey swiftly escalates from, "can we have coffee?" to, "what's a butt plug?", so entering the theatre without an open mind is probably not the best option.

Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey) and Dakota Johnson (Anastasia Steele) have such a ridiculous level of onscreen chemistry, that you'll find yourself biting your lip in hope that Grey will tell you to stop before he bites it himself. 

While I found the story line to be somewhat rushed, as most adaptations are, they manage to fit all of the important parts of the book into the movie without it becoming too messy (pardon the pun).

You lead into it thinking it will be a story about an inexperienced young woman falling for the experienced older man, filling their nights with passionate love making and the occasional spanking.

Then you get to the elevator scene, where you could hear every audience member's pulse quicken and see their eyes widen. Follow that up with the scene of Grey's secret room and all of its'…ahem…novelties, and it all just escalates from there.

It's easy to forget the actual story line, what with all of the ice cubes and the handcuffs - man has rough childhood > man begins impassive spiral into BDSM > man meets beautiful shy woman > beautiful shy woman agrees to let man tie her up and have his way with her > beautiful shy woman falls in love with man who is has the emotional range of a teaspoon. It's (almost) your typical story line for a modern day romance. 

Add a "yes sir" here and there, a few swear words that somehow come out very sexy, and some palm-twitchingly hot sex scenes, and you have yourself Fifty Shades of Grey.

Not a Hollywood masterpiece, but certainly an exciting way to spend your Saturday night.

Rate: 4 out of 5 leather whips.