I miss the days when Hollywood didn't have to throw their shoulder out of joint patting themselves on the back for being hip and clever because they actually WERE hip and clever! This movie is nothing more than two hours of Tinseltown sniffing its own farts and trying to convince us that they smell like roses. Never have I heard such bland and uninspired music accompanied by a horribly pedestrian excuse for "dancing". The blueprint for how to do the perfect musical was laid down 64 years earlier in a little movie called "Singin' in the Rain" ! The filmmakers here seem to have learned nothing from that movie...the characters are shrilling and annoying, the plot, barely existent, and the chemistry between the two leads...well, it just falls flat. I had high hopes for this movie but, in this day and age of lowering the bar on just about everything, I should have known it would be rated far higher than it deserved.