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God, I love Julie Taymor and it took me three seperate attempts to actually get through the film. It's torpedoed by the fact that
a) None of the characters are likeable
b) None of the characters are likeable because they're constantly singing their feelings
c) They're constantly singing their feelings and after a while the CONSTANT musical numbers actually wear you down.
d) They're constantly singing their feelings with bland, broadway, voices. Considering the actual music it's kind of sad to see such soulless performances.
e) It's crushingly literal at times.
f) Bono. God, just...Bono.
I LOVE musicals, but I just wanted at least a little respite between the musical numbers. Just a little breathing space, but I swear there are moments where musical numbers segue into musical numbers which segue into musical numbers. What it does it dilute EVERY song because you've no time to really appreciate what's going on. There are a bunch of fun numbers in this film, with some great staging, but the sheer weight of production sort of numbs your mind to them.
Over the course of two hours we get 34 seperate musical numbers.
It's a shame because when you're engaged the numbers are shot and choreographed with the style that Taymor's famous for. In particular I think the staging of 'Come Together' and 'It Won't Be Long' are great, they'd probably be standout numbers in ANY other film.
