> > Bowie's performance is what shot the movie for me, not as Goblin King, but as a musician: he doesn't sing more than a handful of notes that aren't out of tune.
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> The problem with all of these movies, for me, is the singing musicals. Argh. Where you say Dave Bowie's performance actually "made the movie" for ya, I'd say that's the exact same thing that tanked Labyrinth for me.

That's what i meant, "shot," as in shot with buckshot. I don't mind his music, but the singing is awful.

>Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang is amusing only because the whole film is a very silly cute scenario requiring suitably silly antics. But I'm sorry, in general I just can't get my head wrapped around serious musicals, because it always breaks my suspension of disbelief.

Come to think of it, maybe i just don't like Dick Van Dike. As a child, i hated musicals (ironic, don't you think, for me to now be a voice major--we just finished a Gilbert & Sullivan show last week); the older me hates a lot of what i liked as a child, shows like the Smurfs.

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> I mean, c'mon, how many people would really attempt solving a gut-wrenching crisis by breaking out into a heartfelt digressive solo?
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Good point. But i still love opera.

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