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Chloe (778 KP) rated Feel the Beat (2020) in Movies
Mar 28, 2021 (Updated Apr 3, 2021)
The main character is obnoxious, bratty and has one thing on her mind that revolves entirely around her. The premise is false and faked. Also, how many times do you want to use the roof broke/fell in as a plot change.
Character development is very limited, there seems to be a back story but it is never actually mentioned. The actual outcome of the competition is never shown.
Some of the young actors are very talented and I can see them having bright futures. I like the added layer with the deaf child.
There is a token black actor...... who is unsurprisingly the only outwardly camp/gay person.
Also Welly Wang?! Really?!
I suspect I am not the target audience but if I had tweens I probably wouldn't want them watching this drivel.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Producers (1967) in Movies
Jul 9, 2021
The movie feels like a frenetic mixture of old-fashioned vaudeville and scatter-gun satire; there was probably something curiously dated about it even fifty-odd years ago. While it does acknowledge the counter-culture of the 60s (there's a hippy beatnik character, amongst other things), it doesn't feel like it was made by or for a young audience. Viewers nowadays may not be troubled by deliberately provocative jokes about Hitler or over-sexed pensioners, but jokes about dumb blondes in bikinis and camp transvestites feel a bit uncomfortable. Passes the time amiably, and worth watching just to see Springtime for Hitler in context, but I'd struggle to call it an actual classic.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Dirty Dancing (1987) in Movies
Sep 14, 2020 (Updated Sep 14, 2020)
'The ultimate chick flick' (according to her indoors anyway) but looks just like a rather corny terpsichorean melodrama to me, not especially well-acted or directed - very reminiscent of films from the period in which it is set, although with a bit of slightly grittier content. That said, the soundtrack ping-pongs back and forth between the early 60s and the late 80s. In the end I did enjoy it a lot, although probably not for the reasons the makers intended (I particularly liked the moment where a bit of suspect editing makes it look like one guy is playing a sax solo on a trumpet). Silly, harmless fun.
