Reading the reviews on here I had no idea whether it would be 10/10 ("the critics are all wrong") or 2/10 when I went to see it last week.

By half time I knew. The critics who slammed it were right. My feelings when we paused for an ice cream halfway were that it was sterile, noisy and "all show and no go" as a mate said of something very different many many years ago.

When it ended my thought was "That was like a 2 hour pop video". Today I read that the director was in fact a director of music videos and it really shows.

This is about the worst film I've seen in ages - the songs are forgettable apart from This is Me (and that's only because I've heard it so much on the radio) but it is just I Am What I Am and Born This Way in a blender (as one critic put it); the only bits that involved me at all were Hugh and Zac's bar & glasses song which had nifty choreography and a moment near the end on the beach which I actually felt slightly moved by. The rest left me cold. Talk about it all being fake...