Cringey even for me

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2018)

I'm a big fan of musicals,and like a lot of cheesy songs, but I soon started to dread these characters singing. This film is a celebration of the mediocre, dime-a-dozen commercial pop fad; instalyrics over the most tiresome tracks you were already bored of ten years ago. Any real talent (which I'm sure there was plenty of) has been artificially cleansed out, and replaced with a thick layer of autotune icing. The story was just about interesting enough to keep me in my seat, and Zac Efron's and Keala Settle's performances had sincerity and were worth watching. Indeed, the only things that were.