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more dancin' fools
So the Fred & Ginger fest continues, with considerably less success this round....
Aaaah. SO PAINFUL. Oh god I just want to scrub all my skin off and drag my darlings away from all the skeeviness. And then there was ALL THE MOTTS with the screwball bits. There was a moment when I thought they might be able to play the hypnotism thing as Tony being self-sacrificing (which I am admittedly weak for), but there was such an enormous lack of subtlety in the script that it all plunged straight into screwball mayhem and sketchily drawn (bad) characterization.
There wasn't much I truly enjoyed in this one. The Yam-Yam was a cute dance, though the lyrics were very WTF. The hypnotism dance in the gazebo was a gorgeous idea totally ruined by the creepy. I was really rooting for Ginger to break that glass, because god that looked like fun, but they either dragged that sequence on too long by letting her get to the studio, or didn't let it run long enough by barely having one gag when she got there.
Also, I was very distracted by the two male leads being named Steve and Tony, and yet not being either slashy or adorable in the least. Unpossible!
WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME ABOUT THE ENDING YOU ARE ALL SHUNNED *bawls* I had to watch Happiness to recover (oh the tragedy). And then A Love That Won't Sit Still and Can't Take A Hint for good measure. (btw,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
icepixie, my dad wandered in during the latter two and was impressed by your sense of timing. *thumbs up*)
In conclusion, my mom and I decided that "Fred and Ginger" would be a good name for a cocktail. Like, ginger...something and champagne.
Aaaah. SO PAINFUL. Oh god I just want to scrub all my skin off and drag my darlings away from all the skeeviness. And then there was ALL THE MOTTS with the screwball bits. There was a moment when I thought they might be able to play the hypnotism thing as Tony being self-sacrificing (which I am admittedly weak for), but there was such an enormous lack of subtlety in the script that it all plunged straight into screwball mayhem and sketchily drawn (bad) characterization.
There wasn't much I truly enjoyed in this one. The Yam-Yam was a cute dance, though the lyrics were very WTF. The hypnotism dance in the gazebo was a gorgeous idea totally ruined by the creepy. I was really rooting for Ginger to break that glass, because god that looked like fun, but they either dragged that sequence on too long by letting her get to the studio, or didn't let it run long enough by barely having one gag when she got there.
Also, I was very distracted by the two male leads being named Steve and Tony, and yet not being either slashy or adorable in the least. Unpossible!
WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME ABOUT THE ENDING YOU ARE ALL SHUNNED *bawls* I had to watch Happiness to recover (oh the tragedy). And then A Love That Won't Sit Still and Can't Take A Hint for good measure. (btw,
icepixie, my dad wandered in during the latter two and was impressed by your sense of timing. *thumbs up*)In conclusion, my mom and I decided that "Fred and Ginger" would be a good name for a cocktail. Like, ginger...something and champagne.