Excess of Opinions

this just never gets old for me.

Come for the Heath Ledger, stay for the Alan Tudyk.

Hee-hee, I liked this one.

I get kinda weepy just thinking about this.

SUPER cute, in a good, clean fun kind of way, not at all annoying. Amy Adams is truly the bomb diggity, and i had no idea James Marsden was so FUNNY!

VERY, VERY GORY – Burton has obviously been studying his anatomy texts. great singing, gorgeous Burton settings and costumes, and condenses the stage show rather nicely. . i consider a movie a success when Alan Rickman is the weakest link. and GREAT job, Borat! high-fiiive!

reasonably funny, although not terrific. good to watch with a beer in hand for musical biopic fans. Jenna Fischer is extremely good!

good fun, but all over the place and kind of a mess. all the old people are adorable but sing like drunken donkeys. the old people are CLEARLY having the best time ever, which does eventually become infectious. the 2 kids have stellar voices when they’re allowed to sing, briefly. there’s a music video at the end that completely makes the movie. also? if Meryl Streep’s daughter is supposed to be 20, that would mean she had her at about 38. i’m just sayin’, maybe they should have considered the math when casting.

pretty goddamn good – a standard music biopic (although perhaps a tad more fictional than most). Adrien Brody turns out to be the weak spot, but everyone else is terrific, most especially Jeffrey Wright (and when is he _not_ terrific?). they let everyone do their own singing, and it’s good. even Beyonce did a a helluva job. Columbus Short and Eamonn Walker both stole every scene they were in.

fascinating and moving – i do guess you’d need to be a fan of A Chorus Line, but i think that’s a pretty universal musical, in that it’s gritty and funny like musicals usually aren’t. the way they’ve juxtaposed footage and interviews about the original conception of the show with auditions and profiles of the revival is charming and effective. it’s really riveting and moving, and there isn’t a slow spot in it.