Completely unoriginal garbage

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2001)

As I walked into the theater, I did so with an open mind; I was ready for something different.
Then the film actually started.
At first, I was impressed with the surrealistic flyovers of Paris, but that's where my engrossment with the film ended. I became quickly annoyed with the rapid succession of all-too-quick shots and bizarre camera angles; these techniques work well when used to accentuate a point in an otherwise normal film, but here they merely numb the mind.
When Ewan McGregor began singing "The Sound Of Music," I was hit with the other major annoyance in the film: the complete and utter lack of a single original song. The film is supposed to be a musical, yet in a musical the lyrics of the music serve to advance the story and provide insight into the characters' condition. Here, the characters regurgitate bits and pieces of songs everyone is all too familiar with in a kitschy mashed-together style that ultimately becomes too confused and never manages to make a discernable point.
The movie tries to be an expression of originality by using an all-too-garish color scheme and some extremely bold cinematic techniques, but in the end it comes across as frenetic and terribly unoriginal. It is most likely aimed at the type of person who enjoys such unoriginality, and here it succeeds, as evidenced by the dozens of reviews here entitled "Spectacular Spectacular."