A movie with disappointing depth and a very predictable story, but Robin Williams is doing great!

Rating: 6/10 (18 March 2008)

The trailer of this movie was very promising. It looked like a nice film about music with a good story where you can feel with the characters. It turned out to be a movie with disappointing depth and a very predictable story. However, Robin Williams was really great!! The character development was extremely unbelievable. It started with the beginning of the movie. The two parents meet each other, and in 20 seconds they fall in love and the next you know she is pregnant. Well, I am sorry, but how the .... are you going to believe that?? That part really disappointed me. It is so unlikely and the rest of the movie was with so little depth that I hardly felt any connection with the two parents. It had lots and lots of clichés and cheap ideas, making it very predictable and boring.
I understand that the story needs unbelievable things to happen, because it's a sort of fairytale, but that doesn't mean that you can throw all depth out of it..
What about the main character? Someone please tell that guy to stop smiling every single time he touches a instrument. I can understand that music is his gift etc. but he was so overacting. Completely unbelievable and therefore making it again harder to feel with the little guy. He turned out to be frustrating me instead of making me feel other emotions.
I give the movie a rating above 5 because Robin Williams is playing such a great role in the movie! In all the movies I have seen, he plays friendly, caring persons, and here he is doing a alter ego of that. Very cool to see!! Definitely worth it if you are a fan of him.
I do have to say I did had some emotional moments while watching the movie, especially the end, but the movie felt most like watching I am Legend: awful shallow, and leaving me wondering why they didn't made a good movie out of a fine concept. Raise your Voice did a better job, and that for a Hillary Duff movie...