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The lovely Emma Stone and talented Ryan Gosling team up for cinema’s latest musical spectacular, La La Land. Barista Mia (Emma Stone) and down and out musician Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) cross paths when, on a night out, Mia stumbles upon a jazz music bar and Seb gets fired for playing his own stuff. As he gets his marching orders from the stony faced bar manager (J.K. Simmons), Sebastian and Mia’s relationship develops. As each one chases their dreams and success comes knocking at the door, the relationship they have becomes a lot more difficult. Whimsical, thoughtful and definitely musical, La La Land is a musical for the next generation while fondly remembering the previous generation. An old romantic at heart, Sebastian pines for the old days of jazz as the modern music ruins the roots of his favourite music. Sebastian learns quite quickly that sometimes it’s about adapting to life to get where you need to be. The musical numbers – especially the first one that hits you between the eyes during a rush hour traffic jam - is expertly choreographed and catchy and the overall soundtrack is good. I felt a pinge of treachery as one of the more modern updates of jazz was played I quite liked, even though Sebastian derided it. Featuring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling actually singing and dancing and a soundtrack contributed to by John Legend, this movie is, in my opinion the best musical I’ve seen since Moulin Rouge. However, having said that, I think this movie would be very Marmite – you will either love it or hate it. It very much depends on whether you like the type of music. It’s a good, well made film, but very dependent on your opinion of musicals. For me though, I loved it.
POPSCORE: 8/10
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