There is absolutely no rhyme or reason for this movie to be, and the musical version of "Hamlet" ("Funny Boy") which Pam not to be seems more likely an option to be produced realistically than this fiasco. This is probably a movie musical perfect for people who don't like movie musicals because it is so bad that it justifies their hatred of movie musicals. I've seen many flop musicals on Broadway and as movies, and I'll take a revisit to "Lost Horizon" in the cinema and "Dance of the Vampires" on Broadway than justify a revisit to this which seems to hate Broadway musical fans of all persuasions and is enjoying its ridicule of them.
Joe Piscopo (a name I hadn't heard in decades) and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino are the only two familiar names in it, trying to force laughs where there aren't any, presenting a musical comedy within a movie that is the worst thing any stage could ever hope to produce without the audience causing a riot. Piscopo is a down-on-his-luck choreographer, so just for that he sells his Tony Award in the opening scene, and then all of a sudden getting a chance to do a new musical with the aid of mobster Sorvino. This reminds me of the scene in "Ed Wood" where a Paramount producer looks at "Glen or Glenda" and initially thinks it was some sort of practical joke. I have rated plenty of movies as bombs, but this one turns out to be probably the worst film I've seen since the start of the millennium.
Joe Piscopo (a name I hadn't heard in decades) and veteran character actor Paul Sorvino are the only two familiar names in it, trying to force laughs where there aren't any, presenting a musical comedy within a movie that is the worst thing any stage could ever hope to produce without the audience causing a riot. Piscopo is a down-on-his-luck choreographer, so just for that he sells his Tony Award in the opening scene, and then all of a sudden getting a chance to do a new musical with the aid of mobster Sorvino. This reminds me of the scene in "Ed Wood" where a Paramount producer looks at "Glen or Glenda" and initially thinks it was some sort of practical joke. I have rated plenty of movies as bombs, but this one turns out to be probably the worst film I've seen since the start of the millennium.
