Now I have been to New York and all that jazz, but I live in Missouri; so when I say "musical" I mean musicals that have been made into movies that I have seen. I wouldn't say that I am a huge fan of musicals either. Some are better than others. Mostly, I like anything verging on insanity, but with a twist of sarcasm.



Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. I wasn't sure about Nicole Kidman in this part but you can't go wrong with Ewan McGregor. He is a true renaissance man. Sing, dance, act, he can do it all. Nicole, however, did surprise me. I ended up loving this movie. I think a lot of people who don't typically like musicals, loved this one. I bought this soundtrack as well and I still listen to it all the time.


I know that everyone just loves Hairspray, especially after the movie came out, but this is a prime example of what I don't love about musicals and movies in general. While the storyline is a good one, the ending is just too nice for me. Racism and prejudice aren't cured at the end of the day with a dance and a song people. Sorry to have to rain on the parade but the issues are just too serious for the movie/musical to have ended the way that it did.





Last and least, we have The Producers. The cast was great with Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, and Uma Thurman. The movie, however, sucked to the point that I wanted to leave. I just couldn't take all the singing. Yes, it's a musical so there will be singing, but usually there's some regular dialogue mixed in between songs. Not with this musical. Everything felt like a song. One long torturous song.

Sometimes you see movies you don't like and you want to give it another chance just in case you were wrong, but never again Producers. Never again!