Hedwig And The Angry Inch

Year: 2001

Grade: C-

Country: USA

Director: Mitchell

Review

not my kind of movie. musicals, first of all, don’t normally do it for me (there are some exceptions). secondly, the transvestite central character wasn’t compelling. there were some funny moments and the music was actually decent (though i didn’t really enjoy it), but this movie just never got off the ground for me. i can see how some might enjoy it, but i didn’t find much to latch onto – the love story was weak and uninteresting, the musical sequences had some humor, but not enough to keep my interest, and the plot wasn’t very active. the direction showed potential and did a decent job of making it into a film (considering it was based on an off broadway play), but, again, did not do enough to engage me as a viewer.