I am giving this 0 stars, such a waste of time. It's two and a half hours long and has two hours and fifteen minutes of musical. Yes, there is a deeper message in the movie, no it doesn't make it worth going to watch. I think I might actually try and as for a full refund for life it was so bad. People that rated this anything above a 1 star must not understand how the rating system works because mother of god this was a slog to watch. Please for the love of all that is holy do not ever produce a musical again. I had to cleanse my pallet after this with a nice helping of bleach and tide pods just to wash away the foul taste that is whatever this shit show was. Having someone rake their fingernails down a chalk board would be more worth while to go watch I'm not a huge fan of Lady Gaga or Joaquin Phoenix, but neither of them deserved this happening to their career. You know that scene at the end of Deadpool after the end of the credits where he goes back in time to stop Ryan Reynolds from doing Green Lantern, well they need to work on a way for time travel so someone can go back and undo the atrocity that was just committed. I would almost put this up there with using napalm or mustard gas during warfare. Jesus, save yourself the time and effort you need to put into watching this and go drink a whole case of liquor while doing meth, because that's a better decision than subjecting yourself through this. DO NOT DRINK A CASE OF ALCOHOL OR DO METH this is NOT an endorsement it is merely a metaphor for how bad this movie really is.