"La La Land": Fa la la la la la la la FUN!

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2018)

I am far from your typical RomCom Musical Movie sorta guy. This notwithstanding, there are exceptions to every rule. And the 2016 mega-hit from a genre generally gone by, "La La Land", would be a rare one indeed for me in this regard.
Writer/Director Damien Chazelle has fashioned a bit of beatific and, at once, bittersweet brilliance. And all the while he pays both subtle and blatant homage to the multitude of merry musicals circa the golden era of the 1950's and '60's. Ryan Gosling is very good, Emma Stone, better for my money, as star-crossed lovers who I found myself willingly suckered into rooting to see get together in the end.
For those who have yet to see the film, far be it for me to divulge if this cute and crazy couple actually do wind up living happily, and tunefully, ever after. I shall only share that the entire intricate production satisfied both fully and with flying colors after all was said, sung and done.
And, to quote the late, great John Lennon-a dude who knew a little something about music himself-it "done me good".