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Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2016)

There was a time that to be in a musical you had to have talent. You might be able to dance like Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. Or at least if your dancing were suspect you might be able to sing like Sinatra or Streisand or at least like Meryl Streep. But La La Land is a perfect Millennial movie where everyone who shows up gets a trophy for trying. Today we tend to confuse talent with fame. As long as you have the right "Q Score" and can pull in the right demographic then that's all you need. Even in the day of the dinosaur when they made West Side Story they at least made sure the featured players were made to look good by surrounding them with professionals Gosling has the requisite bona fides as heart throb, especially when paired with Emma Stone, and has some musical skill but he is dancing on his fame here, which is probably enough for today's audiences. The movie looks good and if you like splashy over saturated color then there are some visuals for you to enjoy if you were a fan of the TV show Pushing Daisies. No doubt this film will be a fav wth would be auteurs and wanna be Broadway dancers; However, I found it a romantic yawn but the "chic flic" crowd will drag their dates to see it. Be sure you bring a phone and ear buds.