Firstly, I really love the musical moments as the music and guitar playing is pretty good. Helps to add sweet and cute musical moments together well. Unfortunately, despite good intentions and good moments, the movie isn't as good as I hoped for.
John Carney's previous films like "Sing Street, Once and "Begin Again" demonstrate his talent on showing romance, comedy and music together and I have enjoyed them. "Sing Street" being my favorite from his works. Here, his direction here continues to balance out Irish culture, music and romance. Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have pretty great chemistry together with pretty good dialogue interaction moments that builds up together.
The narrative is standard and cheesy and sometimes cheesy feel good movies are perfect. However, unfortunately, the cheesy narrative didn't work for me because the narrative doesn't feel as creativity or energetic as Carney's other works with this one being more tame then usual. On the characters, I understand their purposes and why the characters are the way they are but I really didn't connect with them since I found them to be kind of annoying and quite unlikable at times.
As mentioned about the music, the musical and soundtrack moments were good as there are some pretty good singing and song-writing moments. The camerawork is bland and the production is sometimes a little cheap. With the movie focusing on the main character and her son, the character arches felt too thin and sloppy which needed some improvements to fix it's structure. Some of the humor was kind of bad, especially with some of the Gen Z humor attempts.
Overall, it was never boring as Hewson and Levitt were the best part. But I wish there was more out of this one.
John Carney's previous films like "Sing Street, Once and "Begin Again" demonstrate his talent on showing romance, comedy and music together and I have enjoyed them. "Sing Street" being my favorite from his works. Here, his direction here continues to balance out Irish culture, music and romance. Eve Hewson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have pretty great chemistry together with pretty good dialogue interaction moments that builds up together.
The narrative is standard and cheesy and sometimes cheesy feel good movies are perfect. However, unfortunately, the cheesy narrative didn't work for me because the narrative doesn't feel as creativity or energetic as Carney's other works with this one being more tame then usual. On the characters, I understand their purposes and why the characters are the way they are but I really didn't connect with them since I found them to be kind of annoying and quite unlikable at times.
As mentioned about the music, the musical and soundtrack moments were good as there are some pretty good singing and song-writing moments. The camerawork is bland and the production is sometimes a little cheap. With the movie focusing on the main character and her son, the character arches felt too thin and sloppy which needed some improvements to fix it's structure. Some of the humor was kind of bad, especially with some of the Gen Z humor attempts.
Overall, it was never boring as Hewson and Levitt were the best part. But I wish there was more out of this one.