03-26-2006, 05:03 PM
The fact that they are still making musicals and they are profitable proves that I'm in the minority on this subject, but I depise musicals. My wife tried to force this one on me and I just couldn't take it. The idea of taking a bunch of people in bizarre situations and having them sing and dance about their problems is simply beyond me. I lump movie musicals in with marching bands. You combine to things that are horribly annoying separately and expect the combination of the two to some how magically improve both items. It almost never works. The only time that I've experienced this genre and not felt the urge to vomit was The Sound of Music. I can only guess that it was because the music stood by itself as a decent work and the plot of the story was about the household re-discovering music, so combining the two worked.