Selection of terrible points about the film

Rating: 5/10 (23 January 2017)

I do believe this is a really poor film with great budget and little artistic value. Poor script, poor acting, terrible consistency, poor dancing & average music.
The reasons why the film is bad are so broad it's hard to write an integrated bad review, I will simply point a few selected terrible points of the film, there are many more.
* Script & story is poor and predictable. I spent half the film thinking the script was being "ironic" and that at some point the "good stuff" would start. Good stuff never came, except maybe for the last 15 minutes which was an obvious crowd-pleasing but it was pleasing indeed. * Music scenes are not memorable and often it's hard to tell when they decide to shove them in and why. No iconic dance or move will be remembered. * Ryan Gosling pulls the same face throughout the film. I found his comments on jazz shallow & hard to believe. By no means he conveys proper love for anything. He's Ryan Gosling playing himself and reusing his own set of Gosling clichés. He's believable or at least charming though when he tells Emma to follow her dreams. * Emma Stone has great acting moments (for instance, when she's auditioning and someone interrupts her) but it's only a few great glimpses in an incoherent ensemble. Her character is meant to be insightful and dreamy, full of values, and yet she has the shallowest of friends. She forms a kind of tribe of husband hunter-gatherers who just meet to go out together so they don't look like weirdos. They only reappear for applauding in a play. Regarding her pre-Ryan love life, when you find out she's going out with the guy she keeps rolling her eyes on & who is consistently depicted as charmless and lame you just can't believe it. They're artificially put together to create her an epic I-can't-put- up-with-this-anymore-the-jazzy-guy-is-my-guy scene in the restaurant which is embarrassing due to its impossible built-up. This is an obvious one, but the film is full of hard to believe stuff. * No dance scene is memorable. No twists, no nuances, no pushing limits, no art. * Plot is childish - they're both meant to succeed (no success = you're lame) at different paces. * Scripting is poor. They go from a rough start (total time of interaction = 2 seconds in two episodes) to 1 encounter where she's a bit funny and suddenly they go for a walk and switch from almost insulting each other to almost kissing, just to be stopped by a telephone ringing. No build-up, no understanding of what's going on in their feelings.
I could keep going on and on. A film that would be average if it was shown after lunch on TV but is turned bad by artificial marketing expectations.
Excuse my English.