Highly enjoyable, not your average rom-com

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2017)

I always wish I saw movies without expectations but we live in a world measured by time so we don't waste it with titles that are sub-par. Nonetheless, I came into the theatre expecting an above average rom-com. I was completely satisfied in many regards. I don't even like musicals, but this movie changed my mind. The choreography was not strained, the songs both told an important story and more important sounded good and the chemistry in Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's characters was absolutely terrific. It makes it hard to digest that these two are not together in real life as I might even dare to say that the chemistry between these two exceeds even the chemistry found between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook.