What a let-down. Could have been titled "Great Expectations"

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2002)

I love a good musical. Based on all the glowing reviews about this movie, we rented the DVD and sat back to experience. Wow! After about 30 minutes, we began wondering if this was really it. I kept expecting it to change gears and shift into the "wonderful musical" we had heard/read about. Instead, we were treated to the first movie in years to be turned-off before it was over.
This movie/musical is a hodge-podge of snippets from many movies and songs of the past 30 years, or so. From "Hello Dolly" (now that was an entertaining musical) to "Sound of Music". From Madonna's "Like a Virgin", to Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". It appears to have been put together like a collage. Someone cut-out a number of songs, and routines from previous movies/musicals, and pasted them on a poster-board which then became the outline of this musical.
Thin plot line. Voices of the leads that lacked depth. Very impressionistic. The most positive thing I can say is that Nicole did look rather nice in some of the costumes she was wearing.
All in all, I think of this as the "Scary Movie" of musicals.