Boring

Rating: 3/10 (15 February 2010)

Well...
I don't know what to say. I love musicals. I think John Travolta is a great actor. I love the song "You Are The One That I Want". I had never seen the movie until that night a few weeks ago when they aired it on the TV. I don't think I should hide it. I barely succeeded to watch the entire movie. It was just plain boring. I guess it was supposed to be a slice of the 60s teenagers's life but it just failed. The story was dumb and the acting was uninspired. All of the actors looked too old for their roles. It was kind of disturbing for me to see a 35 years old looking woman trying to act as a teenage girl. Come on... Stockard Channing looked old enough to be a teacher in that school, not a student. The same thing could be told about Olivia Newton-John and about every other teenage character in the movie. Of course this was not the only problem of the movie. It was not the biggest problem of the movie too. The story was idiotic and boring. What did they try to show us? Some boy and some girl in love? The conflict between the two bands? The teenagers' growing up? Whatever they wanted they didn't achieve it. The characters were one-dimensional and plain dumb.
The songs were... Well, one of them was nice. Guess which. The others... This is the only musical that I have seen and liked only one song. And I prefer listening to it than watching it in the movie.