Maybe I am missing something here?

Rating: 2/10 (14 March 2008)

I was really looking forward to this film. I mean, with such good reviews and such a high score out of ten then how could it be anything but good? How wrong I was. This film is rubbish, and I mean rubbish. Glen Hansard is playing the lead in this film, the same guy who wrote nearly all the songs played, and it is clearly some sort of ego trip or mad publicity stunt to try and get people to buy his music.
Let's face it, it is just the same 12 songs one after the other, often repeated, wrapped around a pretty lame story about boy meets girl.
This is not a musical as the songs do not fit together to form part of the story. So, when they start singing together it is nice, but do we really need to go through the entire song from start to finish? When they go into the recording studio, we know that they are going to record tracks, but they make us listen to them in their entirety. And so it goes on. Is this necessary? Of course not. They are just trying to promote this guy's music and make money by selling the soundtrack in my opinion.
Where do all these high scores come from? 8.2 out of 10!! Complete Joke.
Nice marketing trick, decent music, really bad film.