Pain, pain and more pain

Rating: Null/10 (6 December 2002)

I like a good musical. This was neither good, nor a musical. It was like an extended music video crossed with the worst soap opera imaginable. The very idea that this was nominated for Best Picture alongside 'A Beautiful Mind' and 'The Fellowship of the Ring' is laughable, somebody must have paid big bucks for that nomination. This movie is remarkable in that watching it actually causes physical pain, pain that is renewed every time a character says anything, or commences the melodramatic howling that passes for singing in this mess. A gaudy, overblown and grotesque film.