Lots of people will hate it

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2001)

I went to see this movie just by default, I was not very interested.
But I am so glad I saw it, because it is so WEIRD. It's always nice for me to see something that is so different from the norm. To be honest, I don't know or care if it was a "good movie" or not - it gave me a very unusual couple of hours. Call me simple, but usually I go to the movies to entertain myself and get away, not to learn or think deep thoughts. So this film satisfied me.
The plot was predictable and unoriginal, so if you live for plots you might not want to bother. If you expect movies to be "realistic" you'll be very disappointed, too. And as a love story it fell flat for me - I didn't care about either of the main characters. But somehow I still enjoyed it.
Personally, I enjoyed a lot of the visual stuff - I'm not talking about "pretty" sets and costumes, more like strange ones. There are a lot of just plain creepy characters and images.
A lot of the singing/dancing scenes were very interesting and vibrant, but admittedly some of the singing became too slow and sappy for me. Then, just when I was getting bored with the singing scenes, they hit me with the bizarre "Roxanne" scene which I loved.
All in all, I would expect a lot of people to really hate it. I wouldn't recommend it to my parents. But I don't know YOUR parents...