As someone for which musicals are not all that entertaining, I can say that I thoroughly loved Grease and West Side Story. I cannot say the same for La La Land. The music is repetitive in La La Land, and quickly loses its charm. The acting is great, I'll give it that, but the story has no place being called a good one. It follows the formula of a love story: meeting, honeymoon, trials, and eventual reunion, but fails at a flowing plot. The jump cuts with the season name is lazy at best, and feels to be a lazy scenery change. The plot events don't even do anything to hide that!

And the music is utterly monotonous. Clearly, it is meant to be slow, emotional, but tracks like City of Stars consist only of a few chords and fail to develop beyond that. The melodies are repetitive as well as the dance sequences being mediocre at best. For someone who enjoys classical music and jazz too, it is odd how this movie would have put me to sleep!