West Side Story (2021) Review (625th Review)
TONIGHT…..TONIGHT…..
Throughout the years, Hollywood has viewed multiple famed directors crescendi to come to be mythical within the filmmaking sector; ascending on their genuinely own meticulous directorial merits once coming close to a motion image. Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood, Cecil B. DeMille, and also Francis Ford Coppola are just some of the names of the diligent ones that have made their mark in Hollywood and also inscribed their names in the renowned tapestry of flicks. While a brand-neoteric generation of directors have appeared in modern times (i.e. Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, and also Guillermo Del Toro, and also so on.), these mythical directors have been both prized by their peers and also the entire Hollywood municipal as nicely as moviegoers almost everywhere. Such is the sheathings via director Steven Spielberg, that is among the superior ranks of these “diligent directors”, coming to be a ageless household name that multiple (cinephiles and also causal movie viewers) have come to certified and also the facility movies he’s channelled. His movies, entailing such iconic flicks like Jaws, Comfy Encounters of the Ultimately Sort, E.T. the Added-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and also Raiders of the Thrown away Ark, have come to be motion image staples in not just in the universe of Hollywood, yet in the background of flicks. Spielberg has also dived proper into theatrical projects images that draw ingenuity from genuinely humanistic complaints (society, fight, terrorism, civil rights, identity, and also so on.), via movies like Preserving Exclusive Ryan, The Color Purple, Schindler’s Checklist, Amistad, Lincoln, A.I. Artificial Proficiency, The Post. BFG, and also Composed Player One. Beyond the directorial chair, Spielberg has implemented (on multiple occasions) made think as a builder, executive builder, and also also as a screenplay author. He was in addition the co-owners of the movie studio DreamWorks Studio. Hence, via his popularity farming and also his movie reputation amongst multiple being distinct (and also expressed joy) it’s definitely no justification why Spielberg is contemplated one of the the majority of awesome directors in Hollywood’s movie background. Currently, 20th Century Fox (along via TSG Leisure and also Amblin Leisure) position Spielberg’s next theatrical facility installment, via the music Broadway extravaganza remake of West Side Story. Lugs out this famed director’s first dare at a music well worth a glance (and also the buzz) or is it a much growl (and also at some point bland undertaking) from the ageless Broadway depict?
THE STORY
In the shanty regions of Contemporary York Urbane, the rougher locales of the subdivision are being outlying for a dissimilar future luster, disclaiming highway gang such as the Jets, spearheaded by ringleader Riff (Mike Faist), upset via the equalizing confront of his roads, basing fight on their Puerto Rican rivals, the Sharks, spearheaded by head honcho Bernardo (David Alvarez). The Jets as comfortably as owned the muscular cells in Tony (Ansel Elgort), yet he’s prefered on the gang for a more switched over means of living, fresh out of prison and also massaging for Valentina (Rita Moreno), trying to plunged his volent past behind him. Granting an invite to a subdivision dance, Tony is immediately wowed by the sight of Maria (Rachel Ziegler), that is basically Bernardo’s sister, via the pair immediately brought in to each other while certifying their social departments. Calculated to win Maria’s hand and also heart, Tony plunged every little thing proper into wooing the young girl, yet the advise of Riff looms considerable, via the young male lugged proper into a last grass fight between the 2 gangs; one that kit every guy on a collision course of love, shadiness, and also death.
THE GOOD / THE BAD
Borrowing my lines from my appraisal for Composed Player One…. being an amateur aficionado in the motion image planet of flicks, I’ve come to value (and also idolize) some of the diligent directors of Hollywood. While multiple will forever crunch on which one is the strongest, there’s definitely no refuting the reality that these directors (multiple and also collectively) have confirmed to be qualified in their crafting of facility movies and also lug awesome and also tremendous motion image storytelling to both the sector and also to moviegoers almost everywhere. Personally, Steven Spielberg is surely in my pinnacle 5 favorite directors. Not just offered that of him being superior in Hollywood’s upper echelon of stars, manufacturers, and also directors, yet offered that of his facility in the movies that he performs (and also the tremendous tales that they enlighten). As the claiming goes “the proof is in the pudding”. I sub-par, flicks like Jaws, Jurassic Park, and also E.T., are like materiel of movie tales in my time, specifically filching into consideration that I expanded upward via them. Still, also some of Spielberg’s current work, via some proverb that he’s a tiny wasted his “movie sorcery”, have wreaks some diligent facility movies to watch, straight uncovering Composed Player One and also Lincoln to be wholesome and also facility motion image tales to watch. All in all, Spielberg has certainly come to be one of the the majority of considerable directors in Hollywood, a testimony to his oomph of filmmaking and also the facility movies that some have been contemplated “ageless”.
This circles ago to my current appraisal for West Side Story, a 2021 music facility movie of the Broadway music of the genuinely same name. In reflection of 2021, I think that the year must’ve been termed “the year of musicals” as there was a wide array of music facility movies that were unleashed and also manipulated on vocal singing and also dancing for a motion image purpose of moviemaking storytelling, entailing the gives off of Dear Evan Hansen, In the Tops, Tick, Tick….BOOM!, Encanto, and also Every guy’s Conversing Around Jamie. So, having an remake motion image of one of the the majority of iconic Broadway tracks showstoppers wasn’t a extend of the imaginative creativity, via West Side Story ripe for an second modernized movie adaptation. A few years ago, I implement bear in mind hearing that Spielberg decreed that his next chore (after finalizing Composed Player One) would be shuttling a remake of West Side Story. Spielberg applying a music? It was pretty baffling thing to listen to, yet I was engrossed in witnessing what the director would have to lug out. It was till a few months ago once the movie’s movie trailer plunged; showcasing the first footage from the forthcoming music, which peeked silly. Originally, West Side Story was visiting be unleashed for a December 2020 theatrical exit, yet, due to the on-going burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie was deferred an entire year, via a last date kit for December 10th, 2021. So, while I did go to the movie throughout its opening night, I, regretfully, didn’t avail the opportunity to avail my appraisal implemented for pretty some time, due to my dynamic work practice and also my ago catalogue of other movie testimonials that owned to diligent first. So, while I’m on sojourn, I’ve been inspiring out some testimonials on my blog and also I’m ultimately ready to share what I believed around this modernized music. So…what did I envision this movie? Well, I in reality beaus it. In spite of a few wrangles along the means, Spielberg’s West Side Story is a superb and also magnetic music undertaking that still celebrates the original format of the iconic Romeo & Juliet love disaster, yet streamlining the cinematography and also tale parts to gain the movie talk quantities for a brand-neoteric generation. While the 1961 facility is still iconic and also girlfriend, I implement think that this adaptation is a tiny superior. I realise that is a tiny unheard of, yet a remake that’s basically better than the original….and also that’s a meritorious thing!
I will confess that prior to witnessing the brand-neoteric movie, I didn’t avail the opportunity to go to the girlfriend 1961 iteration of West Side Story. That being said, I did avail the opportunity to go to the 1961 one multiple weeks after the witnessing the 2021 one (I rented out it on Vudu). So, in my appraisal…. I will gain a tiny tiny of a comparison between the 2 movie corrections.
I implement have to confess that I position it intriguing that Spielberg would pine to implement a music. Well, at the genuinely same time, I can go to why. Established on the quantity of stove that the nicely-known director has implemented over the years from science fiction, to activity, to journey, to thrillers, to dream, and also also to historical drama. So, diving proper into the music universe of filmmaking for his latest theatrical motion image was admittedly something brand-neoteric and also dissimilar as nicely as being ambitious for Spielberg to offer via. The expire result is…as the claiming goes…proof in the pudding, via his remake of the ageless music to resonating the genuinely same (if not more) panache, energy, and also lyrical visibility of the theatrical caliber of that of the 1961 movie. Don’t avail me incorrect…the 1961’s West Side Story is tremendous, iconic, and also true ageless ageless, which is why it has been always revered for the past 60 years. That being said, Spielberg perspectives the Broadway music by trying to overcome out what made the 1961 iteration tremendous, yet rather rousing the reporting of West Side Story and also showcasing the brand-neoteric visual cinematics and also modernized filmmaking behaviors to improve the ageless tale. Conversing of tale, the movie’s screenplay, which was penned by Tony Kushner elevates and also expands upon certain individualities and also parts from reporting, which help flesh out certain precisions that were a tiny scant and also / or obscure said in the 1961 movie. This of course lugs a brand-neoteric vivid to this brand-neoteric remake of the music, yet fans of West Side Story shouldn’t be angered by this. Spielberg (along via Kushner) still hold ago the movie’s tale, plot, and also subtext presumably the genuinely same, via reporting still being a intensified retelling of a Romeo & Juliet predicament of 2 star-gone across fans, foe gangs, disaster, and also lyrical tracks. That part is run away uninjured and also is sort of the “bread and also butter” of what performs West Side Story…. nicely…. West Side Story, Spielberg merely tweaks a few minutes for personality / tale crud and also confers the movie a nicely-deserve confront-lift via visual and also technological earnings. Spielberg in addition doesn’t avail as well wasted within the music; something that directors can implement once coming close to a brand-neoteric genre for directorial jobs and also always performs hold ago one eye tightly infatuated on the vacancy at hand. Overall, while it’s not specially superb, the movie nearly reaches that juncture; uncovering Spielberg’s first dare at a copious Hollywood music facility movie to a extravagant rating and also making his iteration of West Side Story one for the motion image background books.
Ordinarily, one of the copious accentuates of West Side Story are the assorted tracks that blunder around out throughout the tale, via some coming to be solemn classics of Broadway showtunes. Spielberg’s movie still keeps those girlfriend tracks intact for his 2021 iteration and also lends a like-minded music journey that still performs the tale (and also tracks) genuinely feel just as genuinely realistic as it more than a decade ago. As a whole, the tracks are still presumably the genuinely same, via a thumbing of jazz touch vibe that’s linked via considerable part of archaic college Broadway oomph musicals. This, of course, can genuinely feel a tiny dated to some, specifically via modern oomph of musicals nowadays (i.e. The Highest plausible Showman, Hamilton, In the Tops, and also so on.), yet to basically rectify the original tracks for a modern target bazaar would not worthwhile. So, it sort of counterbalances it all, via the 2021 movie maintaining the original notions, grows, emphasize, and also knowledgeables that multiple have come to love from this renowned musicals. Routes like “Tonight”, “I Truly feel Rather”, and also “Gee, Supervisor Krupke” are still such as wholehearted, laid-assistance, and also hilarious to behold in the movie, via the majority of of the cast upward to the opportunity to belt out the drafted tracks in a quickly manner. Singularly, the greatest tremendous chunk of Spielberg’s West Side Story would be scene that facility “America”. Originally implemented on the rooftops of an apartment or condo uprearing in the 1961 movie, Spielberg’s modernized remake confiscates to the roads for a exceptionally color and also aesthetically imaginative rendition of the song that is pretty energetic and also dynamic. Surely my favorite part of the movie…. hands down! Also, I implement have to cite that all the choregraphed dancing in these music scenes are wonderous to behold; filching the smash of the Broadway theater production and also analyzing it for a motion image music perplex. As a side-note to that remark, I in addition cite all of the added dancers that are part of the Jets and also Sharks gang and also how they encouragements raise the movie’s visual format. They can not be as challenging as some of the willful cast (more just physical individualities than nicely-shouldered vivid ones), yet all entailed are presumably meritorious and also mesh together nicely via every little thing scenes that dubs upon them.
In the technological and also whole discussion style, the 2021 West Side Story is vastly superior to the 1961 iteration and also sheens profoundly offered that of the level of visual earnings that the production showcases and also display displays in motion image fashion. Spielberg’s theatrical movies always have diligent deepness in visual peripherals and also background / establishing visual designs, which always speaks quantities in his storytelling. His appraisal of West Side Story is definitely no dissimilar; uncovering a diligent phenomenon imaginative creativity at work as the movie visual designs and also feels both life-like by reflecting gritty and also aged visual designs as nicely as chatting to the tale’s music production inception times. The expire result is something in reality magical, via Spielberg shuttling audiences on a visual tremendous establishing of Contemporary York Urbane of the late 1950s that has natural realism and also theatrical phase centers found; a matrimony that feels silly to go to unfold. From configurations / locales (both interior and also exterior places), kit layouts, costume wardrobe (which are superb btw) and also rich hair / gain-upward, every little thing jobs in the movie’s assistance and also comes out as the one of the more crowning earnings of the facility. Also if you wear’t certain treatment for this music or just musicals on the whole, one cannot merely refute the prolithic stroke of motion image radiance found in the visual / technological earnings in West Side Story.
As said, the scene that requires the song “America” is possibly the greatest visual mark on the movie, via visual aid of the assorted costumes, dancing, vocal singing, and also just whole awe to behold, which performs such a magical and also party music series that…. pretty literally…. stands out. Hence, the movie’s “behind the scenes” crew, entailing Adam Stockhausen (production model), Rena DeAngelo (kit layouts), Paul Tazwell (costume layouts), the entire hair / gain-upward division as nicely as the multiple art standard crew, for the impeccable precisions and also phenomenon visual visual designs that gain both the background’s establishing (and also individualities) come alive via such grandiose boldness and also theatrical energy. In aggravation, the movie’s cinematography work by Janusz Kaminski, a longtime collaborator of Spielberg, is pinnacle-notch, which surely sells the heightened music minutes of the movie and also lends some diligent motion image subtleties to gain the facility’s Broadway depict origins sheen within a theatrical motion image via the consumption of lightning, camera angles, and also tracking. Last yet not the genuinely least, the movie’s rating, which was drafted by Leonard Bernstein, is phenomenal. Ordinarily, the tracks in West Side Story are just as iconic and also ageless (as said overhanging), yet are directed by Bernstein’s music composition, which strengths the tracks also more as nicely as the assorted orchestral chunks that are reminiscent the tale’s traditional theater onsets. All in all, a challenging rating that’s literally covering on the cake for a enchanting visual / technological discussion.
There are a few wrangles that I owned via Spielberg’s iteration of West Side Story, via some parts still a tiny wonky and also others that are just uninjured troublesome locales. What implement I sub-par? Well, for beginners, the movie is still pretty long. While the original 1961 movie was admittedly traumatic by having a runtime of 152 minutes, the 2021 iteration is 156 minutes…. a disagreements of four minutes, and also, while that can not be a copious offer for some, it still stand for the music in a traumatic runtime. This induces the movie to be pretty much longer than it dubs for to be, also if some of the tracks and also dance numbers are reorganized and also the plot having a a tiny more crud. Since of this, West Side Story has a rips of embarrassing pacing complaints and also induces a slowness in multiple locales, which performs the movie to genuinely feel much longer than it must be. Hence, it also via a pair of brand-neoteric additions to the tale, Spielberg can’ve comfortably trimmed down the movie a meritorious 10 or so minutes and also still attain the genuinely same kind of acclaim for his music facility. In aggravation, also though the movie’s manuscript includes more crud to both personality and also background visual designs, the whole reporting beats are still main the genuinely same, which can be both a meritorious and also not sufficient thing, via some of the pitfalls from the 1961 one still immigrating. Of course, while the Jets are a tiny more liverier in this modernized remake and also a tiny more to screen visibility, the Sharks, conversely, are still a tiny underwhelming, via more time infatuated on the Jets than the Sharks. Plus, there still isn’t that proverb of the struggles and also adaptation of the Puerto Rican municipal in Contemporary York Urbane in the movie other than hearing around in the song “America”. Established on the brand-neoteric motion image belvedere from a famed director and also the ever-equalizing times of today’s planet for inclusion and also diversity, it just seems like a missed out on benefit. Plus, the a tiny heavy Latino accents for some individualities is a tiny tiny “on the nose” and also, while I implement realise why it may be withheld in the movie (for the tale’s time establishing of the late 50s), it still seems a tiny dated.
As more of a civilian objection, I sort of dream that Spielberg would’ve imbed a tiny more imaginative disagreements in the second half of the movie. Why and also how so? Well, to be devout, the latter half of West Side Story is a tiny dispiriting / melancholy to watch, specifically after the sheathings of the copious “complain” scene. Of course, I implement acclaim Spielberg for shifting the song “Fashionable” out of this part as it genuinely thumbed wonky in the 1961 movie, yet…principally…after hearing the solid “I Truly feel Rather”, which is presently a proper after the copious fight scene, the rest of the facility is run away via more somber tone. Of course, it’s a tiny readable as the tale’s willful plot times can not be switched over, yet I genuinely thumbed that Spielberg (and also Kushner) can’ve encompassed a tiny more crud or something of imaginative focus to draw a better expire result in this ending mien. Heck, also the last minutes can’ve encompassed a tiny more crud, which closes out much like the original. Anew, it’s alright for what it is, it’s just it would’ve been meritorious to go to something a tad dissimilar.
Gazing past those times of objections is the movie’s cast, via this modernized iteration of West Side Story showcasing a multifaceted array pretending talents and also some capable entertainers that encouragements lug these iconic individualities active. Spearheading the price in the movie are the 2 principal individualities of the tale (Maria and also Tony), that are tinkered by actress Rachel Zegler and also star Ansel Elgort. Exceptionally, Zegler performs her theatrical facility movie launching via West Side Story, and also I implement have to confess that she performs a diligent vacancy in her capability. Her music voice is superb and also hearing her sing tracks like “Tonight” as lyrical to listen to as she captures the vitality of a startling youthful maiden, that is craving to go to more to her life than what is comfortably available. Plus, she surely visual designs like what I (and also multiple) would image Maria from West Side Story to be, a young and also wide-leered girl. Hence, I genuinely thumbed that Zegler did a okay vacancy in the job and also performs outmatch what Natalie Wood was able to share from the 1961 movie. Of the 2 leads, she sheens the brightest. That’s not say that Elgort, that is certified for his duties in Different, Youngster Catalyst, and also The Culpability in Our Celebs, is challenging in his representation of Tony, the previous Jet ringleader. Via the lone forlorn factor of Maria is that her personality is still rather much the genuinely same, Tony’s backstory is a tiny more fleshed out, which lends more certifying proper into that this young male is and also what he wants out of life. While Beymer’s iteration of Tony in the 1961 movie was more of a dreamlike facility (as prototypical for a lead male in a music of that time period of once the movie was made), Elgort performs Tony a more subtle (nearly overcome temper and also guilt) by behaviors and also medians of sifting to outhouse his past transgressions of vicious behaviors of being Jet participant and also sifting for a better life; one that is willful and also willful. Of course, there is still some “grit” to him, which throws spectre on his personality, yet he is still a genuinely much a likeable male that is out sifting for love. Possibly the lone downside to Elgort is (of course) the current complaints made on him, which casts a not sufficient light of his capability on the movie, as nicely as the star sifting a tiny more senior than the rest of the cast. To be mart, Elgort still has that baby-confront for a pioneering male, which is arguably why he won the part of Tony, yet, being nearly a head taller than the majority of of his male co-stars, is a tiny evading and also visual designs senior than what the personality must be. He’s not as archaic as Beymer was in the 1961 facility, yet he just visual designs a tiny more fully flourished than what the personality must. Collectively, Zegler and also Elgort surely sift cute together and also implement share a meritorious on-screen chemistry via one an additional, which help purchase proper into the individualities of Tony and also Maria.
A caboodle like the 1961 iteration, the stabilizing players in 2021’s West Side Story are much more intriguing, tremendous, and also pleasing than the actual willful leads (as said overhanging), via Spielberg uncovering a so facility pretending talent to blunder around these iconic individualities. Just like what actress Rita Moreno crafted in the 1961 movie, actress Ariana DeBose sheens the brightest in a genuinely nicely-shouldered and also vivid personality capability in the job of Anita, Maria’s bro’s (Bernardo) girlfriend. While a tiny rare in the universe of both copious and also tiny screen, DeBose has made a name for herself on Broadway by showing up in such production like Lug it On: The Music, Motown: The Music, and also Hamilton. Since of this, DeBose of course has diligent screen visibility throughout the entire movie, which (ordinarily) performs her personality representation of Anita that added impactful. Like Moreno, DeBose performs Anita teeming via dynamic strong suit and also spiritedness and also a eaten customer, which performs all of her scenes (be it cheerful or grief) that added eaten and also vivid than the rest. It’s a testimony to DeBose’s pretending and also she is qualified to all the acclaim and also admiration that she has received for her job in Spielberg’s music. Surely hands down my favorite personality in the movie as one can comfortably thumbing the love, avidity, and also theatrical boldness that DeBose crafts in the personality; making her the the majority of tremendous player in West Side Story.
Scheme in a parallel fashion, stars Mike Faist and also David Alvarez implement superior projects as the decreed leaders of the 2 foe highway gangs as Jets’s hotheaded Riff and also the Sharks’s alpha male Bernardo. Like DeBose, Faist (Newsies and also Dear Evan Hansen) and also Alvarez (Billy Elliot the Music) have a background work on Broadway, which surely help construct their screen visibility and also pleasing personifications for their respective individualities. In actuality, both individualities are fleshed out a tiny more, via Riff having more of a hatred / animosity in the standard of the Sharks than before via a more vocal mouth in the standard of physical violence, while Bernardo has more of a surrogate papa-like figure in the standard of Maria; offering a adult vivid in the standard of the personality. Together, both are to be contemplated the “Tybalt” of this modern-esque Romeo & Juliet tale, via both males handling eaten for their respective groups and also will implement anything come out on pinnacle. Of course, Bernardo is a tiny more smoother, while Riff is a tiny rougher, yet both males fight for what they think in. Hence, the functionalities trapped by both Faist, and also Alvarez stimulates the blistering competitor degree and also panache, which is depicted pretty nicely and also cinematically brought active via plenty of spiritedness and also posed characterization.
As said overhanging, Spielberg sort of boosts the web content for West Side Story to lend a tiny more personality vivid within multiple stabilizing players. This is the majority of notable in streamlining the personality of Doc, an senior male that has a Candy store front and also that Tony jobs for. In Spielberg’s iteration, Doc is refurbished by the lady personality termed Valentina, that is contemplated to be Doc’s widow that presently runs the store. What surely performs this personality more intriguing in this brand-neoteric iteration of the ageless music is the reality that actress Rita Moreno plays the job of Valentina. Unlike the original personality of Doc, Valentina has a tiny tiny more to implement in the movie; offering more helpful referrals to Tony via his current predicament, via her personality being a Puerto Rican that dropped in love via and also wed a white American. It in addition help that Moreno, that is certified for her duties in the 1961 West Side Story as nicely as Oz, The King and also I, and also 9 to 5, is upward to the vacancy in making this personality excel, that is superb and also plays Valentina via diligent poise and also minimize. Plus, Spielberg’s judgment to position her the opportunity to sing in this brand-neoteric movie, via Moreno vocal singing “Somewhere” instead of Tony and also Maria. It’s a judgment that I like and also surely has that “complete circle” compel for Moreno, which help bridges the 1961 movie to this 2021 facility.
Another stabilizing personality that in addition acquires provoked a tiny is in the job of Chino, a playmate of Bernardo in the Sharks gang as nicely as suitor for Maria’s love. While the personality is still genuinely much the genuinely same (the genuinely same expire expire result from prelude to layer), Chino is a tad fleshed out more and also has more of visibility in West Side Story, via star Josh Andres Rivera, that performs his motion image launching via the movie, giving a challenging capability. Last yet not the genuinely least, in a smaller sized job, Iris Menas (Ridley Jones and also Madagascar: A Miniscule tiny Crazed) performs for a meritorious tiny personality capability in the job of Any guy, a personality that is more a misfit due the sex, via Spielberg making the job more plainly trans personality rather than merely an opined gamine-like one. Anew, it’s s tiny adjust, via genuinely tiny compel on the whole facility, yet the inclusion disagreements is admittedly a welcomed one in this day and also age of cinema filmmaking.
Other tiny stabilizing duties, like star Brian d’Arcy James (Limelight and also 13 Parts Why) as Police policemen officer Krupke and also star Corey Stoll (Ant-Man and also Residence of Cards) as Lieutenant Schrank are rather much typified in the genuinely same light as before, yet both stars position challenging tiny personality duties in the movie. Of course, I didn’t aim these 2 individualities to be adjust that much, via the lone disparity is that Schrank just seems a tiny more strong via the 2 gangs “brawling” and also how they will coming to be more worthless in a few years. Overall, both James and also Stroll were meritorious and also definitely no complaints from me.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Exuberance complaints…. also more than love” a poignant sentiment that is resembled in the subconscious of 2 star-gone across fans as they try to position means to position a romance together in amongst a warmed party brawl that looms considerable overhead in the movie West Side Story. Supervisor Steven Spielberg latest movie confiscates the ageless Broadway music depict to a whole brand-neoteric level, via his movie adaptation streamlining the already intensified Shakespearian love tale. While the movie can’t retreat certain acquire pitfalls from both its source web content and also from the 1961 iteration, the movie still positions a magical brandish of motion image subtleties and also tremendous from Spielberg’s standard, more reporting crud, a superb discussion, challenging vocal singing talents, silly choreography dance numbers, and also a diligent set cast. To me, I in reality beaus this movie. There has been some departments on this certain movie adaptation, yet I believed that Spielberg did a diligent vacancy in creating this music proper into something that owned a tiny more crud, a tiny tiny more technological grows, and also a a tiny more grittier. It’s the genuinely same music every guy loved, yet posed a diligent motion image makeover lift; something that provoked and also beautifies this ageless love tale. Plus, I believed that majority of the cast was superb, specifically Zellger, DeBose, and also Faist. Personally, I think that Spielberg’s iteration is the more superior to the 1961. Hence, my referral would be a challenging “genuinely recommended” one, specifically if you’re adherent of the West Side Story music or value it musicals. In a motion image age or remakes and also rebirths, few of these have the power and also long lives to pardon their presence. In the case of Stephen Spielberg’s West Side Story, the reviewing is solid, for it is a visual technological awe and also impressive phenomenon of tracks, dancing, and also storytelling; a wholesome music tale of young love, eaten hunches, and also wholehearted disaster for a brand-neoteric age and also for generations to come.
Also, as a civilian side note, West Side Story is my 625th movie appraisal filching into consideration that I’ve launched blogging. This is in reality a considerable and also commemorative milestone for me! I ached position a unforgettable thank you to all my audiences, patriots, and also other bloggers for reading my movie testimonials and also giving me this belvedere to share (via you mans) my panoramas on motion image tales.
4.4 Out of 5 (Highly Prescribed)
Let loose On: December 10th, 2021
Mulled On: February 4th, 2022
West Side Story is 156 minutes long and also is ranked PG-13 for some challenging physical violence, challenging language, thematic web content, suggestive web content and also short-lived cigarette smoking
