The jukebox musical is also a nostalgic hit parade.
Julie is talking about her own teenage girlhood in the early ’80s, but she’s really announcing a glib excuse for a jukebox musical — and, specifically, for remaking the 1983 teen comedyas the kind of self-consciously hits-packed revue that has become a regular fixture on Broadway. It’s easy to pictureplaying there for a few months before making its real money as a touring company or popular high school musical property.
If it seems like 2020 is a strange time to remake a particularly era-specific 1983 teen movie, the filmmakers behindmight well agree. The film was shot in 2017, and had a summer 2018 release date before it was indefinitely delayed, supposedly due to controversy surrounding co-star and YouTuber Logan Paul. Yet the curious timing seems to be part of this material’s DNA.
Individually, these details are head-scratchers. Put together and scored with pop hits, they converge into a kind of perpetual time-warp.musical uses the same song as a mixed-tempo tour of a house party.
; the “Kids in America” number starts in reflective slow-motion, like Taymor’s take on “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Later, the movie takes on the considerable challenge of covering “Under Pressure,” a sequence that shows Goldenberg’s command of both unbroken shots and sharp editing.’s reconfigured playlist may be predictable, but it shifts around the action with streaming-ready fluidity. Several hits get compressed into a spirited aerobics mash-up.
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