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We watched the new West Side Story last night. I was all set to not like it, I mean how can you improve on the great original version? Why even remake it?

It turned out to be pretty good! The only thing I really wasn't happy about was when they spoke Spanish and had no subtitles... We always have the subtitles turned on as I have a hard the hearing it, but when the Puerto Ricans spoke Spanish it would have been nice to know what they were saying!

The music and dancing were great though 😊 It was so colorful and I was glad they stayed true to the original songs.

Rita Moreno did a great job and it was nice to see her still part of the show.

Overall I was impressed.

Why not just call it what it is? We rented it not knowing it was the same story we just watched on Prime the night before...Nowhere on the cover does it mention it's the same story with the same characters...

I wanted to like this movie. Lots of great actors, even if they are all in the 80s...It had the potential to be a fun movie, but it just wasn't.

I laughed a couple of times, but it just didn't have any magic. It made me sad that such fine talent was wasted on such a poorly written script. It was no "Golden Girls", for sure...Luckily we got it from our library and didn't have to pay for it.