>It fails spectacularly at the number one thing a decent film
>should do, which is tell a story.
>
>The characters are mere suggestions, the acting is awful, and
>the production design/technicals are all over the place except
>for the sound mix.
>
>It also violates the number-one rule of the music-based film
>or movie musical: having musical numbers that both don't
>advance the plot and go on far too long. The key offender is
>the title song, of which all nine minutes are performed
>onscreen. All nine.
>
>There's a nine-minute song in "hairspray" too, but it takes
>the film from climax to resolution and had multiple breaks of
>dialogue scenes to boot.