Jesus Christ Superstar

This will really be a short review. Really. I'm not a fan of Andrew Lloyd Weber, and musicals are the genre I have the least appreciation for, so this thing was coming in with very little in its favor, and it did not win me over. I'm not going to pick it apart on that basis, because what's the point. It didn't do anything I didn't expect (especially the story, which is just the story of Christ), and the things I don't like about it are things I don't like about ALW and musicals in general, so ... seems pointless. What I will say is that it was never not interesting, and always had energy. Every performer was committed to making the stage production come to life on the screen, and even though they did nothing to hide the era in which it was filmed, it somehow doesn't date the movie. It almost, dare I say, adds to the goofy charm of setting the story of Christ in modernish times. Bottom line, if you don't like ALW, this won't win you over at all, and if you do, you've likely already seen it. But I can at least appreciate the energy from the cast and crew.