Tuesday 17 January 2017

Mark's review of La La land

It certainly is colourful and fun. It was won a record 7 Golden Globes and is up for the Oscars, but is it really that good...? La La Land is unusual in that it is a modern, romantic, musical that is doing rather well. It has a very strong performance by Emma Stone who can sing, dance and act. She is terrific. Ryan Gosling can act, play the piano, dance a bit and sing not so well. He just about carries it off. I would have liked more big dance numbers. The feel-good theme of follow your dream and not giving up is standard Hollywood fare but it is still the perfect anti-dote for the those January blues. A great date night movie.

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