[jlogajan]

What, one will ask, are the remaining two hours of the film occupied by? Lewd and sensuous, skin-baring dancing absolutely unrelated to the subject matter of the film as well as its parent musical.

Who is this nitwit? It is a musical, not a documentary. Plot lines in musicals are often threadbare.

Secondly, the movie/musical skewers the principles -- the lawyer is corrupt, the public gullible, the starlets are more interested in their stage careers than the people they just bumped off. There is no mistake or ambiguity about what the motivations are or who is good and bad.

Now I didn't actually care for the movie because I'm not a big fan of musicals. But to try to demand some sort of rationality in a musical is a bit off target. Musicals are for people who like to see music and dancing. Plots? That's just a way to organize the order of music scenes.

[Xenalyte]

It is a musical, not a documentary. Plot lines in musicals are often threadbare.

And that's why I've always wondered what the attraction is in musicals. They often have zero plot to speak of, and the artificiality of people going about their daily business and then breaking into song - and not having those around them ask, "What the hell are you doing?" - makes me grind my teeth.

I may be the only woman alive who despises musicals.