Overrated, why the big hype?

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2017)

It started out OK but then I got the feeling throughout the movie that the filmmakers tries so hard making it the kind of movie it wants to be: A movie where it seems natural to start dancing and singing anytime. But it don't. That's the major problem for me, they just don't get away with it. It tries to be relaxed, special and weird in a good way (artistic) but it just don't and it huuurts!
Then there's the fact that many scenes seems to have been made without any effort of perfecting them, there's a long shot were the main characters are small- talking on a distance where they have OBVIOUSLY been doing voice-overs of themselves, the lips aren't even following their words?!
Then there's no chemistry between Gosling and Stone, they're just being stiff, specially Gosling who's even more stiff when dancing (he's pretty cute though). And it's absolutely outrageous that Stone won an Oscar for this?! Haven't seen the other nominated movies but I find it hard to understand that someone couldn't be better than that?
And what is the movie even about? It's NOT a story worth building a movie upon, it could be a sidetrack in a bigger film, it don't justify itself. Too long. Too pretentious.
Mr Legend on the other hand is what his name says; a legend. He's totally funny. And the music is sometimes worth the while, even if it's really not that catchy. Overall I find it weird that it's so hyped, I guess it's our generation that haven't seen the classic movies in this genre and think it's something new when it's really a poor effort of recreating a concept that used to touch.