Daring, sometimes brilliant -- but often laughable.

Rating: 5/10 (1 June 2001)

In five years, people will be lining up to see the midnight showing of this movie at The Waverly Theatre in Greenwich Village. People will dress as their favorite characters, shout out lines at the screen and sing along.
Where this movie succeeds -- it is brilliant. But the plot is as predictable as they come, the quality of the singing is merely adequate, and the scenes that fail are laughable -- and not always on purpose.
This is a daring movie -- but one that, ultimately, fails. It is worth seeing only to encourage the writers, directors and actors to keep taking risks. And -- yes -- it is worth seeing for those few scenes that soar (like the narcoleptic Argentine who sings ROXANNE as a tango).