essmeier
Joined Mar 2000
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essmeier's rating
If you've seen one Tim Burton movie, you've seen them all. The film is dark and murky, with the mandatory casting of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and a few camera tricks and odd shots thrown in to show you he's in charge.
If you've heard one song by Stephen Sondheim, you've heard them all.
Add blood and guts, and you've got a dull, slow-moving musical with muddy imagery and really bad songs.
The film is just sort of "there"; it doesn't really inspire much emotionally either way. The cast sings fairly well, despite the fact that the songs, like most of Sondheim's material, are simply terrible.
On the plus side, there are no songs in the film that are as bad as "Officer Krupke" from West Side Story, which remains the Worst Song Ever Written.
Pretty much a waste of time.
If you've heard one song by Stephen Sondheim, you've heard them all.
Add blood and guts, and you've got a dull, slow-moving musical with muddy imagery and really bad songs.
The film is just sort of "there"; it doesn't really inspire much emotionally either way. The cast sings fairly well, despite the fact that the songs, like most of Sondheim's material, are simply terrible.
On the plus side, there are no songs in the film that are as bad as "Officer Krupke" from West Side Story, which remains the Worst Song Ever Written.
Pretty much a waste of time.
I read the book, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" some 25 years ago and it apparently made no impression on me, as realized that I didn't remember a thing about it as I sat down to watch the film.
The film is certainly harmless enough, but it wasn't nearly as funny or clever as it seemed to think it was. It might have been, were I twelve years old.
But I'm not now, and I wasn't a quarter of a century ago when I read the book.
I never thought I'd say this, but here's a science fiction film that makes "The Fifth Element" look positively cerebral by comparison.
Waste of time.
The film is certainly harmless enough, but it wasn't nearly as funny or clever as it seemed to think it was. It might have been, were I twelve years old.
But I'm not now, and I wasn't a quarter of a century ago when I read the book.
I never thought I'd say this, but here's a science fiction film that makes "The Fifth Element" look positively cerebral by comparison.
Waste of time.
