This might have been great, but it's not.
Honestly? "Reefer Madness" raised the bar for musical-movies tremendously. And "Repo!" spend a fortune and still failed...
What's good about this? Great exterior shots! No one was afraid of gore. Nice songs, some even more than nice. Great stylish introduction of the main characters as comic. Looks so nice! Prologue and epilogue... classic! Background story? Exciting! (I wish we had Max Headroom on DVD at last...)
On the other side? They spoiled almost everything. The timing lacks. The pace stumbles. The story and motivation gets driven away and hardly coming back. Music? what's so nice about music? yes, you can recognize it. Ever heard of leitmotiv or (as wikipedia translates it) leading motif? IMHO that's what musicals are living from. And of course from the depth coming along when new layers get put on top of each other and moved around... what works with music works also in literature...conditioning somehow... This one does none of this...
Story: nice but lost Story-telling: pretty poor Music: OK till nice... Usage of music in a movie: as bad as the story-telling (even the arrangements of music had timing issues and spoiled most of the fun...)
The budget and the actors tell me that someone tried too hard to deliver something great... they just failed. ...and I am sorry for that.
It could have been easily an 8 but I am so disappointed from this waste of effort.
At least we got to see the long awaited comeback of Rupert Giles as "ripper" ;-)
Honestly? "Reefer Madness" raised the bar for musical-movies tremendously. And "Repo!" spend a fortune and still failed...
What's good about this? Great exterior shots! No one was afraid of gore. Nice songs, some even more than nice. Great stylish introduction of the main characters as comic. Looks so nice! Prologue and epilogue... classic! Background story? Exciting! (I wish we had Max Headroom on DVD at last...)
On the other side? They spoiled almost everything. The timing lacks. The pace stumbles. The story and motivation gets driven away and hardly coming back. Music? what's so nice about music? yes, you can recognize it. Ever heard of leitmotiv or (as wikipedia translates it) leading motif? IMHO that's what musicals are living from. And of course from the depth coming along when new layers get put on top of each other and moved around... what works with music works also in literature...conditioning somehow... This one does none of this...
Story: nice but lost Story-telling: pretty poor Music: OK till nice... Usage of music in a movie: as bad as the story-telling (even the arrangements of music had timing issues and spoiled most of the fun...)
The budget and the actors tell me that someone tried too hard to deliver something great... they just failed. ...and I am sorry for that.
It could have been easily an 8 but I am so disappointed from this waste of effort.
At least we got to see the long awaited comeback of Rupert Giles as "ripper" ;-)