Over use of autotune...grrrr!!

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2009)

I only managed the first 9 minutes of this movie, which is a shame as even in that short time I got the impression that it would be quite watchable. The reason I couldn't watch, or rather, hear, any more, was purely because of the gratuitous and heavy handed use of autotune on all the sung vocals. Even in parts where the singing was part of the dialogue, where one would expect the singing to be slightly out of tune, somebody in the production team had decided it would be best to process the vocals to such an extreme that I couldn't listen to them. Yes I'm a musician, and yes this is already a pet hate of mine (so often a perfectly good vocal performance is made to sound like a robot because it's a few cents out), but seriously, at times the autotune is so obvious it becomes almost reminiscent of Cher's famous pop song, "Believe" (Do you believe in life after love?...) It was so distracting that I couldn't watch the movie, which I feel is such a shame as the actors/actresses (or their voice doubles) are clearly talented vocalists and needn't have been subject to such treatment - or at least not to such a degree.
I'm disappointed, disheartened and extremely annoyed. What a waste. Grrrrrrrrrrr.....!!!!