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The last musical that I saw was
“Mamma Mia” with one of my favorite bands ABBA written all over it and to this
day I cannot forget what an experience it was to watch my favorite stars
singing all time favorite songs – the songs we’ve grown listening to. This one
unfortunately I missed watching it on Big Screen and today regretted it big
time after watching it twice today that too back to back at home. Then I
realized – it was a box office dud with $75 Million budget and it end up making
only $50 Million. There is another reason to it – as per me – you will love it
only if you were born in 70s – the earlier the better. I totally loved the
songs – some are as good as you will just stand up and kick some air for sure.
If you love Rock – Do not miss this anymore. Totally rocking music (that’s
subjective) and some damn good rocking performances by one of my all time
favorite Tom Cruise as a reclusive rocker Stacee Jaxx, awesome Paul Giamati as
his manipulative and cunning Manager, Hottie Malin Akerman as Rolling Stone
reporter, my favorite Alec Baldwin as the owner of the club where whole of the
movie takes place, Russel Brand as club’s Manager, Katherine Zita Jones as
Mayor’s wife who wants to close down the club and the fantastic lead pair of
Hottie Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta as the lead couple – it’s a totally
rocking cast of beautiful people singing awesome songs at the drop of a hat. My
wifey was like “they don’t talk much but keep singing”. I have already
downloaded its soundtrack and loving it – check it out – if you love Musicals –
this one is one of its own kinds – if you like Rock – This Is It!
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| Katherine Zita Jones |
The Movie: Based in the late 80’s
– it starts with Sherrie’s (Julianne Hough) arrival to LA from a small city of
Oklahoma, instantly on landing she gets robbed of her records and stuff and
Drew (Diego Boneta) comes to her rescue – they hit it off pretty well right
from the very start. He gets her enrolled as a waitress in the club he works
for “The Bourbon Room” owned by dashing Dennis (Alec Baldwin) and managed by
Lonny (Russel Brand) in a damn good comical role. All their feelings and
discussions are in songs – one better than another types and you get to know of
their characters – it’s too good to hear all those songs from your old
collection – one after another. The good part is – they all fit in so damn well
that you just keep smiling and moving your feet with the beats. Story takes a turn
as Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise) comes to give one final performance at their club
with his band “Arsenal” before resigning from the same. The club is in big
debts and they need this show to be a grand success to pay off the debts they
were facing. The mayor’s hot wife Patricia (Katherine Zita Jones) and her
followers are already protesting against the night club and plan to shut it
down to save the city from Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll. The number performed by
her is too good.
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| Malin Ackerman |
The cute lead couple Drew and
Sherrie is already fallen in love as the movie progresses – they confess as
Stacee’s performance gets cancelled and Sherrie convinces the manager to let
Drew perform instead with his gang on stage for the first time. Another
fantastic scene is going on in the meantime as Paul Giamati (Stacee’s Manager)
arranges for his interview with Rolling Stone’s hot Interviewer (Malin
Ackerman) – they end up singing a couple of songs and right when they are about
to have sex – Malin realizes she is doing a mistake and walks out on him. But
right at that time Sherrie passes through Stacee and Drew thinks that they did
had sex – their relationship breaks up and in anger he ends up performing damn
well on the stage. While his girl friend quits her job and joins a strip down
the road in anger. It has so much happening all the time with so many songs
being performed that you do lose sense of time and track of story and realize
that there isn’t much of the story anyways. I guess that’s the reason why this
movie didn’t appeal to a log of people and lead to its box office failure – may
be. What I loved is the situation and perfect use of awesome songs – these
songs speak so much of the situations and I am sure the Director did quite a
good research while collecting them all and sewn them together in such a
fantastic way. Like when Katherine Zita Jones is protesting against the club
the song in the background plays “Hit me with your best shot” and as Tom Cruise
and Malin Ackerman are about to make love the song being played was “I want to
know what love is” – its so damn apt for the situation. The pace is so fast
that everything goes off in no time and then again falls back in place as
nothing happened in between – I guess that’s what the turn off was for public
that they couldn’t connect with the whole thing neither with the characters. Fortunately
for me the high point
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| Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta |
Rest of the movie covers how
everything stats falling in place and lovers join each other – after certain
time it becomes too predictable and you exactly know where it is going – still
the premise is too good and you actually don’t mind that. I wonder Stacee goes
solo at the club after breaking up with his band as the club too tries to call
off “Rock n Roll” and move to Pop with no success – they do go back to “Rock n
Roll” and prove that Rock N Roll will never die as mentioned and believed
otherwise earlier. I didn’t mid the hurried ending as I had a great connect
with the cast and music. I am sure a lot of music lovers didn’t mind the
falling back thing and loved it the way we did. Who doesn’t likes the happy
endings after all.
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