Watch Singing in the Rain instead!!!

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2018)

Was so happy to finally see this movie and shocked how little I liked it. The theme: girl meets boy, they don't like each other at first, but they fall in love, dance and sing. Unfortunately they don't have the love, patience, and commitment to sacrifice and work for a measly few years to accomplish their dreams together. The entire goal of Hollywood musicals was that they were fun lighthearted entertainment with extremely talented song and dance actors that broke into song and dance designed to take us out of ourselves and make us laugh, hope and dream. This doesn't happen here. A negative story could be forgiven if there was great dancing and singing. These two actors couldn't dance themelves out of a box. Their dancing looks like the handful of steps a choreographer teaches a celebrity so they can hoof a bit in front of professional dancers for an award presentation or late nite TV show. It was absolute pathetic. The worse unexplained scene by far was their first argument in the middle of the movie. Stone berates Gosling for getting a good paying job in his field instead of following his dream of opening a jazz night club...because opening a night club when unemployed is a doable thing in L.A??? This made absolutely no sense. So many other scenes made no sense either...That explains the La La in the title. Spend your holiday time watching Singing in the Rain. Here the protagonists also fight agains the Hollywood machine but do it with a happy ending and some of the greatest dance numbers of all time. Then watch this piece of junk and wonder how it got all the awards.