DEAD on Arrival

Rating: 1/10 (4 February 2019)

This film is yet another "Here today, burned tomorrow" flick. The acting is ham, the dialogue is austere, the Auto-Tuned singing impressions of Beyoncé are irritating & the characters, settings, & story are all so contrived.
The music itself is so generic, predictable, basic & regurgitated. A good musical has a song to fit every mood. Loss, Sorrow, Wonder, Yearning, Love, Betrayal, Introspection, Rebellion, Triumphant, etc. But every number has to start slow & end in a big cluttered Bill Board Crescendo of "Happy Happy Jo Joy". The way everyone relies on portamento.. gliding from note to note in order to avoid landing on correct notes is distracting & run of the mill.
Their structures are conventional, as are the 4 chords they tend to use over & over.. just like pop music. All in simple time.
The shaky cam, frenetic editing, & acrobatic cinematography deliberately divests us of witnessing any choreography. The CGI backdrops & other random assets shows where they glued the scenes together in their spare time on Sunday afternoons. And as for the sound? Everyone sings mute; obviously, as the pitch-corrected & over-compressed Mic-crisp breaths never sound real. But what is real in this god awful film?
Maybe everything & everyone are just CGI props, polygons, with platitudes of one over-privileged prig in the film itself? And it created itself? After all, it is hard to believe that any human could create such a dire monstrosity. Unless it's a Hollywood feature of course.
Utterly forgettable. Only the mindless shall think it is good.