Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Love it, love it, love it!
This movie is not a standard issue Hollywood production. It has a very good humor, it has both general and musical culture, it has a delightful artistic play. I was very cautious about this movie in part because of religious topic, and in part because of some reviews here at Amazon. I've got it three days ago and I already viewed it three times.First, they took the Bible story, and what usually happens there is that producers screw it up. Hypocrisy, fake pathos, sugar-coated heroes, and operetta-style villains often make biblical movies hardly bearable. Remember Disney's "Prince of Egypt"? Not here! Here there are none of such atrocities against the viewer. Joseph is not a semi-god or an angel, and his brothers are not accomplished criminals. You can understand how he'd got them to do what they have done. On another hand, creators of the movie did not flipped everything over either. What Joseph's brothers have done becomes understandable, but still wrong. Being able to survive such a delicate balance is already a huge accomplishment, but here is more.The music and singing is excellent. Of course, if you are accustomed to Britney Aguilera and nSync, you may found it difficult to follow. This is a modern opera - it does matter what they are singing, and it's not rhythm-based drum solo either, it's melodic. But if you understand good music you will be delighted. Even some little imperfectness, when happens, is carefully measured and serves its purpose. Anyway, well, that's Webber, he does know what he is doing.