The Prom

The Prom is an exuberant love letter to Broadway’s “Let’s put on a show!” ethos that will earworm you till the new year and proves how a great musical – armed with a heartfelt story – unites like nothing else can.

Murphy’s blindingly bright, consistently energetic, never-ever-ever-still approach works more often than it doesn’t. Think of Murphy’s own Glee but with approximately 30 times the budget and star power.

Murphy keeps the story electric-sliding along so that we don’t have time to linger on some of its shortcomings. His real achievement is making “The Prom” feel like a film rather than a captured-on-camera stage production, one that still retains the let’s-put-on-a-show energy of live theater.

The Prom is a bright yet flawed musical extravaganza that, while holding a vital message about acceptance, sometimes gets lost in its own celebrity.

In Ryan Murphy’s film adaptation for Netflix, the show’s flaws seem accentuated, with its spectacle too mismanaged to distract that The Prom’s brand of sincerity isn’t necessarily tailored for the screen, or at least not in this form.

The starry casting and heavy hand of director Ryan Murphy do the featherweight material few favors, with inert dramatic scenes and overblown musical numbers contributing to the general bloat. The movie's most undeniable value is in the representation it provides to LGBTQ teens via a high school dance that is every emotionally isolated queer kid's rainbow dream.

The Prom would be glitzy, high energy, and for the most part, harmless — if not for James Corden’s laughably cliched performance, and the film’s inability to figure out which narrative should take priority.

Vorhersehbar aber sehr toll. Spannend und witzig und traurig... Also ein sehr sehr sehr guter Netflix Film

While I must freely confess to not being a fan of movie musicals, I must admit that I came away somewhat pleasantly surprised from this tale **** of self-absorbed Broadway stars stepping in to help a small town Indiana lesbian attend her high school's rigidly regimented heterosexual-only prom. The film's colorful and distinctive production design, clever editing, dazzling choreography, and surprisingly memorable score for a contemporary musical are all unexpectedly impressive, told through a story that combines elements of "The Music Man" (1962), "Footloose" (1984) and any number of gay acceptance stories, as well as heavy influences from the teen musical TV series "Glee" (2009-2015). However, that's not to say this overlong offering is without its share of problems, including sledgehammer moralizing (despite a noteworthy message) and bombastically hammy performances that surpass the inherent exaggeration typically required of cast members in movie musicals (especially those turned in by James Corden, Kerry Washington and the usually-reliable Meryl Streep). Whatever creative equity the film manages to build up in its technical attributes is, unfortunately, undermined by these overbearing shortfalls, keeping director Ryan Murphy's latest from living up to the potential it might have otherwise achieved (and, trust me, that's being kind from someone who seldom has much of anything praiseworthy to say about the movies of this genre). This largely inconsequential serving of cinematic fluff may work fine as modestly entertaining escapist fare, but, as a vehicle for championing a progressive social cause, the message comes across far too heavy-handedly as it seeks to surface from the depths of a suffocating ocean of celluloid glitter.

The movie is fine, the source of material is not great to begin with, the songs are not that good, the only great thing about this movie is Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells. Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman have all the fun they can. Keegan-Michael Key is charismatic and convincing. Andrew Rannells just doing whatever he always do. other performance is fine. the early review make me think that James Cordon is so bad, but to me it isn't, he is fine, not the way i imagining how bad he could be. but those dramtic turn of people accepting people to be gay with deeply belief could only ever be happen in musical but reality.

A brilhantina aparece, espetáculo pronto, musical apresentado mas tudo dá errado! Um filme musical precisa ter autoridade para ser considerado no mínimo bom, Meryl Streep no elenco já veríamos que o sucesso ia vir mas a fórmula não rolou, com algumas partes meio 'teen' e com vozes que nada se destacavam, músicas a todo momento, sei como funciona filmes assim mas a identidade das canções eram cansativas, todos sabem que Meryl Streep é um talento sem dúvidas mas não para musicais, deveriam ter considerado pelo menos uma das veteranas de musicais como Bette Midler ou a rainha da Broadway atual 'Patti Lupone' quem sabe daria sentido a trama. Outro fato é a história que me lembra 'A Vida de Inseto' porém de outra ótica, na animação tem os artistas que vão pra aldeia achando que serão contratados para um grande espetáculo, e no fim são enganados, já no musical uma menina tem um grande sonho de ir no baile com sua namorada mas a escola não deixa por serem conservadores e aí o grupo de artistas a ajudam mas não por causa da menina e sim por 'auto' promoção para fazer seu espetáculo. Achei até muito simples o filme, história mal contada, roteiro previsível, vozes nada interessantes, deveriam em próximos musicais rever o elenco pois não é porque são grandes atrizes/atores como Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key além de James Corden (Carpool Karaoke) que seria um grande filme.

A nauseatingly mawkish 'feel good' musical that hits every bad note on its way to the bottom - 1 star