Trailers/Nine

Trailers in recent visits to the cinema have lately been something of a let down to me. They used to be the best part of my cinema going experience, all the best bits of the given movie all rolled into one minute of goodness. That's why you can never judge a movie by its trailer because the one minuet that your watching can look like the film is the best action thriller romcom of all time, when in reality its just Sly making his comeback again.

The trailers are also important because they basically tell you what the exact target audience is for the move your about to watch. This leads me on to the film musical Nine which i went to go see last night. Pretty much every trailer was a chick flick, including a film titled Dear John which had no discernible plot whatsoever other than a buff man who takes his shirt off a lot.

I don't like musicals, so the film was at a disadvantage from the off, but sadly this was the best the cinema has on offer at this moment in time. The problem I had with this particular movie musical was that the film didn't really have any narrative, a plot rizla paper thin at best, and actors that couldn't make their mind up whether to put on an accent or not, leading to the " generic foreigner from somewhere voice". Also most musicals have songs that actually drive the narrative of the show, but as this film didn't have a story there was nothing much to sing about. The film suffered from having too many star names and felt indebted to pander to them all, leading to basically the whole movie centering and catering around giving each female star a song of their own. That was whole point of the movie - cram lots of Hollywood names into a movie, give them each a song, 1 romantic setting and hey presto we have a movie.

In fairness despite these shortcomings the film was entertaining and watchable, mostly due to the quality of the actors used. Daniel Day Lewis was stylish but couldn't pull off an Italian accent to save his life. However him in 2nd gear is much better than %95 of the crap out there. Dame Judy Dench was underused but great, Sophia Loren was perfectly cast as the leads dead mother and Marrion Cotillard was mesmerising as the wife. So, all in all the film could have done with cutting a few scenes and stars and centering a bit more on actual relationships, but a passable stage to screen musical adaptation.