I like musicals more than plays. I guess, because I was hungry for musicals a long time while I lived in Russia, St Petersburg (musical theatre is not really popular there). I have my own philosophy about musicals. Musicals can show what a person is feeling inside at a particular moment of his or her life; when the person is sad, or happy, or depressed, or bored, or just absolutely anything. Some people think musicals are not real. Like, people don’t sing or dance on the streets. But actually they do, in their minds and in their hearts. Although I like musicals that much, I didn’t like the musical Toxic Avenger. Let me explain why.
It is not that I didn’t enjoy the process of watching the musical. But it didn’t touch me much. It was too silly for me, too unserious. I know this is a comedy. But, even in every comedy there are several touching songs and pretty “serious” main idea. Say, “Avenue Q”, it’s a comedy, but it has some important points about the meaning of life, struggling of young people after college, finding your place, love, coming out… I mean it full of a deep meaning. I didn’t find any deep meaning in Toxic Avenger, unfortunately. From the positive moments, it was fun to watch once, and I definitely didn’t want to leave the show (like I wanted while watching “Rock Of Ages”).
To sum this up, the Toxic Avenger was a fun show to watch, but if I were producer of the show (or an author) I would definitely worked more on emotions and feelings of the characters, and added some extra meaning to it.
1 comments:
Rock of Ages does have deep meanings like have the baby as opposed to aborting it, and that love and family are more important than a pursuit of a rocker or businessman's materialistic lifestyle of fame, wealth, groupies and assets.
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