I like some film musicals that adapt stage hits (Oliver, Camelot, My Fair Lady), but this one I couldn't bear it for more than twenty minutes. The finger snapping thing got in my teeth, I would love to smash those precious fingers with a hammer. The gangs theme is a decaffeinated version of "Rebel without a cause" and the characters suck. They want to play tough and cool, but they look and sound most stupid and unrealistic. The tomboy is most annoying, you want to give her a jolly good spanking and send her to school where she should be. Do these youngsters do anything decent for a living anyway besides killing hours hanging about the alleys snapping fingers, swaggering and pulling out switchblades every time?
And yet this crap won TEN Oscars.
I don't give it a 0 only because it is not possible.
And yet this crap won TEN Oscars.
I don't give it a 0 only because it is not possible.