Rocketmammamia

Rating: 3/10 (9 June 2019)

Rocketman. What a stinker. I thought Bohemian Rhapsody was bad but this makes it look like high art.
They took every cliché in the book and gave it the Mama Mia treatment. It's such a whitewashed hagiography (Producer: D. Furnish; Exec Producer: E. John) that it's embarrassing.
It was all 'poor me, my mother didn't love me and my father never gave me a hug'. Yet he still comes across as a self-pitying, self-centred, selfish prick. Even more so than I already thought.
Some of the scenes are hard to watch, not because they are heart-rending, but because they are toe-curlingly awful.
Taron Egerton did a good job with the singing to be fair, must have knocked out his scenes in a couple of weeks.
It will do well, of course, just like BR did. So do go and see it. Don't take tissues though, just a sick-bag.