Musicals have always been of my favorite movies. I owned the Albums (yes vinyl's) of "West Side Story," "The Sound of Music" "Music Man" and more. "Les Misérables" is my favorite movie of all time. So when the critics went CRAZY for this movie calling it the Academy Award Movie of the year and nominated for the "Golden Globe Award" I was excited. I did notice that only two theaters chose to show it the week I saw it, meaning the theaters weren't very impressed with its appeal. The theater owners were right. This is the most disappointing movie I've seen this year. ------------------------------------------- Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) & Mia (Emma Stone0 "are" the story and they are "ok." As always I liked J.K. Simmons in his (very) small role and I liked John Legend in his small role. That's it! I didn't care for the music, the story or how it was told. An hour and a half into the movie I thought that even a great ending wasn't going to save this movie. I didn't need to worry. The ending was the worst part of the movie. The critics are going on-and-on about the 31-year old writer and director of this movie. It looked like it was written and directed by an adolescent to me.