Jonah14

Wow, the studio shills have bombarded the message board with praise for one of the worst movie musicals ever made.

This film is bad, bad, bad. Bad direction. Bad acting. Awful screenplay.

This is a classic "Why did they bother" film -- there was no reason to remake the classic 1968 film. And the new songs? Distorting and pathetic.

The Broadway musical wasn't much better, but it was a live performance that gave an excuse -- sort of a "The Producers Greatest Hits". As a film, it's just plain flaccid.

One of the worst stage-to-film musicals ever made.

This film basically has the narrator reading from Josef Goebbels diary from the early 20's through to his death in 1945. The film is bookended by the charring corpse of Goebbels, though the film reveals his dead daughters, since Goebbels had them poisoned rather than be captured. You learn a lot of things about Goebbels. He critiqued movies, panning The Battleship Potemkin for being too unsubtle in its propaganda (and obviously being inspired by it at the same time.) He thought Churchill was a better speaker than "that idiot Chamberlain". He was paranoid, often attacking then loving Hitler. You learn that Hitler's favorite men were not friends (Goebbels hates Goring, for example.) This is a must see for anyone interested in the goings-on in the inner sanctum of the Nazis.

What more can I say about YES/NO?

From their appearance on Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo to the Coca Cola "Ice Pick" commercial to STOMP at the Orpheum Theater here in New York City, they've been a phenomenon.

Brooms is no different -- it's an incredible experience, only surpassed by live performance.

This short was Oscar-nominated, by the way, which gave the Academy an excuse to have them perform live at the 1996 Academy Awards. (They didn't win the Oscar, though -- some payoff, huh?)