the first rule of writing is that it’s gotta be bad before it’s good and this is a movie about people trying to deny the bad to get to the good. which. understandable. it was cute.
owen teague was surprisingly my favorite performance in the entire thing i wonder if he’s going to be the next resident of the a24 basement (please don’t have racist tweets)
i love miles SO much he’s pookie like that’s my FAMILYY the BEST parts were miles and his parents. the animation was so gorgeous they were having such a ball in that batch. what really struck me is how they brought New York to life. it felt so lived in and loved.
(love u pookie but the movie started with a 20 minute extended prologue which. personal ick. but then the pacing didn’t get much better from there like it ended 4 times???? whatever who cares)
I've hated this musical for about five years now, so strap in lads, because this is going to be a long one. Unfortunately, I believe that no matter how outwardly terrible something is, it will always be worth engaging with on a thoughtful critical level, so this will be, like, an actual review.
This thing is a total trainwreck. Nearly every decision they made in adapting it only worked to make the musical worse. That's good for me, because in…
“you will fill the world with so much music that it will crush him”
an extra half a star just because of feminism and i know this was commentary on British colonialism yeaaaa destroy that white boy!
a lot of teen movies w asian representation will paint their culture out to be oppressive or whatever with a white savior so it was SO nice when this didn’t fall into that trap. the main character has such a respect and admiration…
