Sooooooooooooo bad it was funny!

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2007)

Soooooooooooo disappointing, and yet funny, for all the wrong reasons. If you hated Evita, you'll know what I'm talking about! This movie was so bad that every time they started to sing dialogue - particularly in the highly dramatic moments - most of the audience broke into fits of laughter! It got to the point where the audience was groaning 'no more singing' in unison and others started ringing their friends on their mobiles to listen to the audience cracking up... Have no idea where they tested this - but it seriously needed a lot of editing (it could have been a great movie). With the exception of the songs at the start of the movie, most of the songs sounded the same. At one point a character complains that they're 'taking the soul out of my music man' - what soul? Most of the songs sounded like really, really, really bad 80s crap - and yet it was meant to be set in the 60s & 70s. Even when standing in line for the loo after the movie, everybody was laughing at how bad the film was. How this was even nominated for an award I'll never know! I love a good musical - but this isn't one of them! Did someone say 'Howard the Duck'?