Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
What were they aiming for?
Good points: Donny Osmond, choreography.Bad points: idiotic costumes.Pointless: setting.Osmond is a good singer and a great actor who truly brings Joseph to life. I was prepared to dislike him, but he had a lot of heart and I liked his Joseph.I think the producers were trying to do too much: to market to an adult audience (blue body-painted cheerleaders, full frontal Joan Collins?) market to a child audience (uber bright colors, narrator eating chicken wings) and paying tribute to the show as it was originally conceived for a private school.The private school show-within-a-show does not work. At what school that parents actually pay money for would it be ok for the music teacher to show up topless in the school play? Having the narrator show up with stage fright before she does the show didn't work, either. She's supposed to be driving, here, not carried along.Bottom line? My pre-k age daughter and I will watch the stuff on Youtube that is appropriate for her, we'll pay money for the stage show when some local school performs it, but we will not pay for this DVD.