Would you let your kid watch this movie?

[MADem]

59. I didn't care for the soundtrack at all.

I like Beyonce a lot, too--she's very talented, and a superb and savvy businesswoman to boot....I just found the juxtaposition of modern music with that story unsettling to the point where it sucked the vibe of the era out of the story. It turned the story from something that was (somewhat) believable into a cartoonish fantasy. I also found the colors too bright, and the CGI overdone.

The scriptwriters did a great job (how could they fuck up, really--they lifted the script from the book, pretty much). The editing was not bad, either. The actors did what they needed to do...but that CGI overlay, the garish colors, and the soundtrack most notably served to flatten, rather than enhance the experience....I thought it was a lot of money spent for a less than stellar result.

Then again, maybe I'm just an old fart and the target audience wasn't looking for a faithful setting for the novel!