Glossy musical ruined by JB Priestley conclusion

Rating: 5/10 (4 March 2017)

I can defend almost everything about this movie, like certain leaps of logic. That's normal for the genre. Gosling and Stone's vocals start out flatly, but they grow into the songs. The colors and Emma's dresses were eye catching.
They began with a peppy dance number, right before we meet the hero & heroine. The movie should have ended that way--before the epilogue. Musicals usually have tacked-on happy endings, not tacked-on depressing endings. I felt cheated, and thought, "This doesn't make sense."