Michael's Movie Grade: A-
Review: Fantastic film, is heart-warming, inspiring and lot of fun.
This film is full of charm. It has great characters, that feel real, which is important since they are real people. I don't know why it is but it is too rare to find movies centering around real people where the characters feel real. Because of this it is fantastic to see it here. The movie also has great writing which shows perfectly why this story is so is important and why it is such a good story. The look of the film is also great. It doesn't look like modern day, but like 1960's America. It is also full of great humor. There are plenty of times during this movie that I really laughed. Despite this none of the humor distracts from the story. Again, I always love when I see this, this is a movie with a great message, where the message comes fully through the story and characters and is never directly preached to you. The pacing is great, it never moves too slow to become boring and it never moves so fast that it lessens the impact of the film. The soundtrack is excellent. Not only do we get to hear such masters as Ray Charles and Miles Davis, but they also fit the action perfectly, and these songs enhance every scene that they are in.
On the downside is the romance. The romance was never really fleshed out and I don't feel we really got to know the love interest character. These scenes were bland and really slowed down the film. Despite this though the scenes are brief and don't take up much screen time, so it can't hurt the movie much.
Overall a great film.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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