Review of West Side Story (2021) by Dawdlingpoet — 09 Apr 2022

This is a bright, colourful and very energetic (vibrant) musical film. It reminded me somewhat of La La Land, for the urban setting, the energy, bright colours and the optimstic numbers (at times). I recognised a few songs from it - I can't say I knew beforehand that they were songs from this show but there you go. Its a fun watch. While this film is a musical and does have quite a few numbers, I personally thought the mix of dialogue based scenes to musical performance numbers was about right. The songs were quite catchy and I enjoyed watching it - of course its quite sentimental at times (which may put some people off perhaps?) but that's very much to be expected. I quite liked some of the settings, such as a church, with some songs sung near the sunlight streaming through a stained glass window - very pretty.

It's quite long at about two hours and forty but I enjoyed it for its duration, so I'd certainly say its a decent watch, worth looking out if it interests you, yes.