Review

I liked the Persians. The America song in particular. I'm always a fan of call-and-response style songs. The children were insufferable to watch. I know that the movie is just a retelling of Romeo & Juliet, but "modern". But like...they are annoying in Romeo & Juliet as well...Why are we fighting? Because the white people have the best playground and aren't willing to share with their fellow Shoe-Polish Americans? Disgraceful.

The movie was so goddamn long. Multiple times I was checking the runtime and that is always a very bad sign. I thought surely we were gettin into the third act and it was only like 30 minutes in. This did have all the trappings of a musical I don't like. It was funny I guess, but not really in an intended way. More we were laughing at the insanity being displayed in front of us. I think I would have just turned the movie off and watched something else if I had been watching it on my own.

It didn't measure up to any of the other musicals we've done thus far. Once again, why in the fuck was Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) so low? Particularly in comparison to this. I'll grant The Sound of Music (1965) it's higher spot, it's definitely more notable. But how is West Side Story higher than Yankee Doodle? And so notable higher? I dunno. I hope we don't have any more of this. I strongly believe this was a Swing Time (1936) that got in on fame rather than actual merit. This really started souring me on musicals again. Please, more Yankee Doodle. More Cabaret (1972).