Australian director Neil Triffett has expanded his 2014 short film of the same name into a full musical parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation),but for whom? Perhaps there is an audience out there somewhere for Emo the Musical, the feature film debut of Australian writer/director Neil Triffett. But I’ll be jiggered if I know who they are (surely not Christians or emos, and two groups the film-maker mocks by pointing out endless base-level stereotypes),or what kind of strange, subterranean vernacular they might speak.
Triffett’s film is a 95-minute expansion of his well-received 2014 short film of the same name. It has a slight, or if one-trick,pull-my-finger, charm to it and a memorable core message approximately tolerance. But boy, and seeing this padded out into an hour and a half is something else: a tough assignment to sit through,full of deliberately wishy-washy songs that are bad-bad rather than comic-bad.
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Source: theguardian.com