musical wannabe

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2007)

I went to this movie with my boyfriend stoked after watching the previews several times thinking "wow that looks mind numbing..."
Mind numbing it was...and not in a good way. The movie starts out good and don't get me wrong the songs in it were great classics. The first scene with Jude singing girl was great, good camera work, However then the scene movies on to a random Asian girl singing hold my hand, to which i start thinking "what does she have to do with this?"
Furthur more the plot is almost non-existent! The characters follow the songs and thats it! talk about the plot jumping! Julie Taymore does a pitiful job of developing the characters, and adding characters to the movie at all! She did a poor job of developing the story too. Why was prudence there? why was there a Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin character? How in the heck did they get back to New York from the doctors ranch place where Bono's character left them?
The list goes on but I'm not going to waste the words.
The dialog was brief and UN-thought out. Im going to say about 70% of the dialog in the movie was heard in the movie preview.
This movie was a joke, waste of $14, and 2 hours of my life i will never get back.
I had high hopes for this movie after seeing the preview several times but i was ultimately disappointed. Taymor had a chance to do something with this movie but she wasted its potential.
But hey, props to the people who edited and put together the preview...they really knew how to talk up a good game.....