Feels massively contrived, even for a musical! Didn't care for the lead characters, Russell Brand is dull but Tom Cruise gives it a good thrusting and the music's okay-ish (covers of hair rock classics can feel karaoke at the best of times).

I propose a movie called 'Vorsprung Durch TECHNO!', set in the hedonist excesses of the nineties, full of Kraftwerk through to Prodigy covers and featuring a cameo from Normski (intheplacetobe). Keith Flint to be played by Tom Hardy. End credits to be scrolled across Richard James' scary grinning ginger face whilst Windowlicker plays on a loop.

Loved this! Im not a big musicial person but for the most part i had a big stupid smile on my face watching this..Tom Cruise is fantastic and a special mention for Russell Brand & Alec Baldwin there duet "i cant fight this feeling anymore" was pure gold.

Yes, this is cheesy as hell (which, for the purposes of this review, is also made of cheese). Yes, the two leads aren't particularly great.

But goddammit, this film is fun.

I mean, the supporting cast includes Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti and Malin Akerman, the music is just ridiculously awesome and...nope, that's all.

It is pretty good though.

I've never felt so pandered to in my life. Not so much a bad film, as a deeply offensive film. I guess this is what it feels like to get old and get reamed from behind with your own nostalgia. No amount of self-awareness could have helped this film. And now the songs are in my head with even shittier people singing them. Please make it stop.

Meanwhile, my wife loved it.

Feels massively contrived, even for a musical! Didn't care for the lead characters, Russell Brand is dull but Tom Cruise gives it a good thrusting and the music's okay-ish (covers of hair rock classics can feel karaoke at the best of times).

I propose a movie called 'Vorsprung Durch TECHNO!', set in the hedonist excesses of the nineties, full of Kraftwerk through to Prodigy covers and featuring a cameo from Normski (intheplacetobe). Keith Flint to be played by Tom Hardy. End credits to be scrolled across Richard James' scary grinning ginger face whilst Windowlicker plays on a loop.

It's pretty cheesy but I love 80's music.

great music sequences. some funny moments. overall, an uninspired, rehashed story. not a fan of Hough's singing voice or Boneta's acting. Alec Baldwin's hair is going to haunt my nightmares. i can't get myself to like Russell Brand in anything post-"Sarah Marshall", hard as i try. Tom Cruise, as with "Tropic Thunder" where he had so much fun with his role, again steals the show.

It's like watching a playlist on Spotify, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense but it rocks

Not my movie. Shoehorning songs into a extremely predictable plot with unlikeable characters does not a musical make. The music bored me. I recognized about half the songs, about 2 of them resonate with me in some way.

I had my doubts about this one. The idea of another broadway musical made into a movie seemed odd to me. Not to mention Tom Cruise & Alec Baldwin singing. OMG, so good!
Tom Cruise plays slimy, long haired, shirtless, ROCKSTAR very convincingly. I loved it! Good show!

One of the most bizarre, surreal and shockingly strange godawful trainwrecks starring major Hollywood royalty to come out in years. It's almost so bad it's good but it never quite reaches that guilty pleasure level but it does need to be seen to witness many of the "did that really just happen moments." Is it satire, is it spoof, is it supposed to just a bit of fun, are the completely ineptly choreographed and shot musical numbers done on purpose? Who knows. I remember all the bad reviews of this at least mentioning a great Cruise performance and he is something to behold here but he certainly isn't good. He gives a mumbling, creepy, brain fried performance that is more odd then coherent. He actually fits right in to this circus act gone wrong.

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