Directors: Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini
Principal Cast Members: Hannah Arterton, Annabel Scholey and Giulio Gerruti
Sometimes you can go into a film with really low expectations and it will surprise you. Walking on Sunshine is not one of those films. While I can normally handle a large amount of cheesy musicalness, I still watch Glee for god's sake!, but when it's this bad I've got to admit its almost painful. Everything about the film is badly done. For example when your watching a musical and you start to notice how poor the choreography is then it's got to be bad. The film suffers from its comparisons to Mamma Mia but it's so obvious that it's trying to replicate the former's success that you can have no sympathy and therefore bumbles along in a way that resembles Mamma Mia minus the soul, joy, charisma or any other of the things that people loved. The films plot seems to have been completely orientated to accommodate as many 80's hits as possible. Admittedly all the songs are enjoyable but their so painfully introduced most of the time that it takes the pleasure out of them. The script also makes the lives of the actors impossibly difficult, however you do get what you'd expect from a cast where the big names are the sister of Gemma Arterton and Leona Lewis. For many this film might have been a step to far even if it had been done well but unfortunately everything about the film is carried out so poorly that even musical fans may find themselves flooding to the exits early.
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