Rojo: Chilean musicals are where it's at
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dangermousieIn my neverending quest to watch cheesy movies from as many countries as humanly possible, I watched the flick Rojo: La Musica or Nada, a musical made for Chilean TV.
Apparently, Chile has a reality program called Rojo - a cross between American Idol and Britain Got Talent - dancers and singers compete. It became a ridiculously huge hit. Cue the movie, starring many of the contestants and detailing the contest and 'behind the scenes' hijinks.
I kinda loved it to bits.
1. Due a timewarp, every man has a mullet. If Chile was a monarchy, it would be nicknamed "Mullet Kingdom" if this movie is anything to go by.
2. The women look healthy and not malnourished. In fact, all the people are good-looking in a 'I can see a person like that on the street' and not the plastic-unreal American TV way.
3. Sweet, melodramatic Latin pop is a guilty pleasure of mine and there is so much of it.
4. The movie has 1:35 running time. Within it the flick manages to cram: (a) a poor girl with a useless, abandoning, non-working mother who exploits her; (b) factory girl who dreams big and whose father comes around; (c) a grocer's family whose singing-mad daughter harbors a crush on her badboy older cousin who realizes he feels the same after his breakup; (d) a male dancer who has fame go to his head while dealing with his impoverished gentleman grandfather; (e) a rich girl whose society mother would faint at her joining a contest so she constructs a false indentity with the help of her maid; (f) rich society girl falling for an impoverished tough-guy rapper/fighter and vice-versa; (g) two best friends falling out over a girl; (h) smalltown sweet boy making good and falling for a girl who initially sees him only as a friend but ends up liking him.
Yes. ALL THOSE. In an hour-and-a-half. Each one of them would have made a decent storyline on its own. Needless to say, not one of these gets resolved. It actually left me thinking this would have totally been a pilot to a show I'd watch :)
Samples of musical numbers
Rich girl and her slummin' rapper (I wanted to watch a movie about them :P)
Factory Girl does her sexy dance:
Boy-next-door and the girl who used to see him as a friend but is falling for him:
Cheesy and no masterpiece? Yes. Entertaining as hell? Yes. Yes. YES.
Apparently, Chile has a reality program called Rojo - a cross between American Idol and Britain Got Talent - dancers and singers compete. It became a ridiculously huge hit. Cue the movie, starring many of the contestants and detailing the contest and 'behind the scenes' hijinks.
I kinda loved it to bits.
1. Due a timewarp, every man has a mullet. If Chile was a monarchy, it would be nicknamed "Mullet Kingdom" if this movie is anything to go by.
2. The women look healthy and not malnourished. In fact, all the people are good-looking in a 'I can see a person like that on the street' and not the plastic-unreal American TV way.
3. Sweet, melodramatic Latin pop is a guilty pleasure of mine and there is so much of it.
4. The movie has 1:35 running time. Within it the flick manages to cram: (a) a poor girl with a useless, abandoning, non-working mother who exploits her; (b) factory girl who dreams big and whose father comes around; (c) a grocer's family whose singing-mad daughter harbors a crush on her badboy older cousin who realizes he feels the same after his breakup; (d) a male dancer who has fame go to his head while dealing with his impoverished gentleman grandfather; (e) a rich girl whose society mother would faint at her joining a contest so she constructs a false indentity with the help of her maid; (f) rich society girl falling for an impoverished tough-guy rapper/fighter and vice-versa; (g) two best friends falling out over a girl; (h) smalltown sweet boy making good and falling for a girl who initially sees him only as a friend but ends up liking him.
Yes. ALL THOSE. In an hour-and-a-half. Each one of them would have made a decent storyline on its own. Needless to say, not one of these gets resolved. It actually left me thinking this would have totally been a pilot to a show I'd watch :)
Samples of musical numbers
Rich girl and her slummin' rapper (I wanted to watch a movie about them :P)
Factory Girl does her sexy dance:
Boy-next-door and the girl who used to see him as a friend but is falling for him:
Cheesy and no masterpiece? Yes. Entertaining as hell? Yes. Yes. YES.
