Steven S

Both the stage and movie versions feature excellent casts and songs, but the stage show moves much more briskly and thus better holds the viewer’s attention. In an effort to create a two-part movie, the creators have taken a delicious meal and inserted lots of bread, pasta and potato salad. It’s just too much.

The movie held my interest but by the end I had the feeling that this excellent cast was largely wasted.

A series of stylish and striking scenes which are in sore need of a coherent story. It’s as if the drafts for a movie by a half dozen screenwriters were sequentially filmed and spliced together without anyone realizing they made virtually no sense.

The one good thing about this movie is that you don’t miss anything by taking a bathroom break or two.