I just wasted two hours +

Rating: 4/10 (25 December 2016)

Oh, dear --my head is still spinning from this film.
NOT because it's good (IT IS NOT!) but because of:
1) the OVER-USE of panning shots in most of the production numbers. The danged camera seemed to have Attention-Deficit-Disorder, especially in that much bally-hoo'ed (andtotally PREPOSTEROUS) opening number set during a typical L.A. traffic jam. Perhaps it was the use of CinemaScope (Hello 1960's!) that made the constant camera movement so difficult to watch.
2) the totally banal "how many times have we seen this?" plot, combining two themes so long-in-tooth that the script"writers" should have named the characters "Boy" and "Girl", for the plot is nothing more than Boy-meets-Girl; Girl at first cares little for Boy; Girl slowly falls for Boy; "Girl and Boy Become a couple; eventually Boy-and-Girl uncouple; Boy and Girl move on.
3) the other time-worn theme is "How Hard It Is For A-Y-A's (Attractive Young Aspirants) To Make It In Heartless Hollywood", as in: (fill in your fave movie titles here).
4) the fact that this film runs 128 minutes! Add that time to the 20 minutes of pre-feature trailers and I might have fallen asleep (especially during the Griffith Observatory dance sequence) EXCEPT for the fact that my bladder kept asking "Isn't there a bathroom around here?"
5) one sort-of-positive note: the film re-confirmed my long-held (from personal experience) belief that L.A. has one of the most boringly-banal street-scapes (block after block of lower-than-low-rise commercial buildings) in the U.S.
The only thing more tedious than L.A. is this film, set in that awful place.