awful

Rating: 2/10 (11 May 2009)

i bought this film for 2 quid from oxfam and am half inclined to go and ask for my money back. i hadn't realised it was a musical, but hey, the old Hollywood musicals are great and have great songs that can actually stand up on their own two feet. not so here. stephen sondheim is greatly overrated, these aren't actually real songs, with a real tune and proper words, they are mostly just drivelly bits of dialogue set to a few notes of 'music'. awful awful awful. the film would have been just about bearable if these people didn't keep breaking into - well, the word "song" is not quite appropriate but you know what i mean. yeuch. i cringed most of the way through it. sacha baron cohen was great though.