Even Disney understood musicals are horrible.

Rating: 2/10 (16 February 2008)

You know what makes a movie or a book great? When you can just float "into the zone" and not be aware of your surroundings anymore, you're just "there". I think you know what I mean. You're not an observer of the movie, you're in the movie, when it's really great. The text of a book is not read, it's happening in front of you in your mind.
You know what's not great about musicals? It's perfectly IMPOSSIBLE to get into any zone or get any flow. Even Disney for crying out loud finally understood what a totally destroying element it is to have musicals as a part of the plot in a movie. Moulin Rouge for example is just fine, because then the musicals are part of the plot, the plot is not acted through the musicals. Key Lines and scenes are not acted through singing. HUGE difference.
Smack, you get a knuckle sandwich in your face, because it gets so incredibly obvious that those people aren't characters, they are just actors singing about their made up feelings, in front of a side-scene. A sad man with a broken heart doesn't start dancing a tap dance, or starts up in a great vocal chorus with an orchestra cooperating with him in the background.
Newsflash: the orchestra in a movie is just there for helping the audience enhance the feelings, the characters are not supposed to themselves actually hear the music. Guess what, I only endured with the actors singing "We will rock you" in A Knight's Tale (which was a mediocre movie) because they: 1)only did it once 2)made fun of the whole ridiculous musical thing. Even when it was a musical scene making fun of musicals, I cringed, because they too stepped over the line by doing it. Don't make fun of musicals in movies, just ignore them, please.
Fictitious scene from Saving Private Ryan, musical version where you can rape any rules you normally have in films: Cptn Miller, singing: "Storm the beach men!" Private, singing: "What? We can't hear you, the background orchestra is too loud!" Musicals... Jesus. You get what I mean? What a joke genre. What a joke movie. I really like Tim Burton, I really do. What a waste of talent. I loved Edward Scissorhands, where your actors actually shut up and don't sing right out about their inner thoughts.
Stop encouraging him making this crap, so he thinks this is what he should do. Tell him this musical crap sucks, so he can go back to making actual movies in his own style.
You like musicals, you like Mamma Mia, or whatever, fine, I won't judge you. But stay in Broadway, stay in theaters. Let musicals be what they are on their own. Leave the frigging movie genre alone, because you are to movies what rap is to music. You think you're making music, but in reality, you can't sing.