But a discombobulated musical with a dopey, desperate plot and routine songs is all there is, and just what it has to do with the World's Fair, except for a reference here (the Kodak Pavilion) and a song there ("This World's Fair") many people might like to know.
(Dargis) 'Pitch Perfect' (PG-13, 1 52) This comedy about a female collegiate a cappella group feels as if it's aimed at tweeners, which is too bad because that saddles it with dopey plot elements — daddy issues, boyfriend issues — that prevent a more substantive look at this rich genre of music.
(Holden) 'Pitch Perfect' (PG-13, 1 52) This comedy about a female collegiate a cappella group feels as if it's aimed at tweeners, which is too bad because that saddles it with dopey plot elements — daddy issues, boyfriend issues — that prevent a more substantive look at this rich genre of music.
There is one Loachian moment of gentle, playful humour when news of the truce is brought to the rebels by a dopey boy on a bicycle who mislays the vital piece of paper.
But virtually every musical comedy he composed had a dopey, now dated, plot.
Manson had been introduced to Melcher by Dennis Wilson, a dopey, druggy Beach Boy who wrongly thought Manson "had something".
The ska-punk group's most recent disc is "Goodbye Blue & White" (Fueled by Ramen), a dopey collection of covers and oddities.
The Alliance for Gambling Reform labelled the legal move by ClubsNSW as a "dopey own-goal".
No wonder Tom Stoppard seized the war horse, originally titled "Play in the Castle," and turned it into "Rough Crossing" in 1984, transported the characters from a palace on the Italian Riviera to a luxury liner named the Dodo and transposed a staid operetta (the composing of which concocts the plot) into a dopey musical comedy.
This is the list of albums I liked most, ranked by a mildly dopey idea that is visible in a key at the end of the spreadsheet.
