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This movie is terrible. The script isn't funny, and there are SO MANY inappropriate references, especially for kids. I like raunchy humor, in movies aimed at adults, not in movies meant for kids. Drug references, and weirdly sexualized snake behavior seems to be a major plot point. Also, the depictions of the human characters is super racist, so that's cool. Overall not good

Somebody teach Phil some manners! It's really fun to watch a middle aged man hack into his food, stab hunks of meat on a fork and gnaw at it arms akimbo all while acting like a tiresome schoolboy on too much sugar. He's privileged to eat at some exceptional, world class restaurants, as well as enjoy specialties with locals, and he can't even find an unwrinkled shirt.

I like Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, but this movie is not nearly as important as it thinks it is. The metaphors are more than a little heavy handed, and neither character is that compelling or well rounded, maybe because they were too busy singing the entire script. Simon Helberg did an exceptional job, and I thought his was the star performance. Now, I know this is a musical, but honestly, the music is appalling. Repeating the same words over and over to a repetitive beat doesn't mean you're telling a story. And neither should it rely on random tidbits from an imaginary entertainment show to fill in all the major gaps. That's just lazy storytelling. The ending scenes in the prison with Annette and Henry were the most moving, as one might hope (and the only saving grace, for me, of this movie). The final true realization that no matter how much he wants to, he can't love her, not really; because he just can't love himself. -I don't know why that mustard-y yellow was the theme color for the movie, Marion Cotillard looked sickly in it, along with that red wig. -Same for that atrocious aged/ill make-up on Adam Driver at the end. It looked like a Halloween kit you'd buy at Walgreens.