Pastiche

Rating: 1/10 (6 September 2006)

According to the distinguished "experts" at the American Film Institute, this is one of the top 25 musicals of all time. The film is a showy pastiche of musical snippets from a variety of sources. The performances have little life to them and absolutely no emotional depth. However, it is one of the few musicals produced at all in the past couple of decades. Since the AFI "experts" seem to have only a superficial knowledge of films prior to 1960, this gets the film in the top 25. A similar pattern of temporal bias afflicts most of the other AFI lists. For that substantial number of you who voted this film a "10", please let do not allow my opinion to alter your enjoyment or your reality distortion field.