Rating: A Hockey Musical

Excelente
Muy buena película hace falta de vez en cuando ver algo fresco, Olivia sin duda era una tremenda artista.

Only for Hardcore ONJ Fans
I can’t say it was bad, but it was a bit painful to watch. First off, this IS a musical! The acting and production were fine, but the singing was not the best. Olivia was the only one who could actually sing (and she sounded great, as usual) and the lead actor was alright, but the rest of the cast are not in any way “singers”. Although the story was interesting, I have to say that the movie is for Hardcore ONJ fans only!

We watched this together as a familly when my sister who lives in Canada recommended it. My teenage boys were a little skeptical
This musical is hilarious. We watched this together as a familly when my sister who lives in Canada recommended it. My teenage boys were a little skeptical, but they like it as well. I have even caught them singing some of the songs. The one about hockey fights is a favorite. We enjoyed viewing it many times since our first viewing.

“Score: A Hockey Musical?” Missing the Goal.
Olivia Fans, BUY IT. Olivia is beautiful to behold in all her pre-collagen glory. Most of her singing is recorded live on the set; but most of the songs are like “Happy Birthday to You” and it would be silly to pre-record songs like that for a movie. In duets and trios, it’s clear Olivia is singing live while the camera is rolling, while the less experienced singer/actors had their vocals pre-recorded and dubbed during post production.The director is no Randal Kleiser (“Grease” and “It’s My Party”), who was adamant about capturing Olivia on film at her best (perfect lighting, perfect facial expression, etc.). Poor, improper placement of lights, reflectors and diffusers did not fill in shadows across Olivia’s face, so in some shots, she looked older than her age. Artistic cinematographers and skilled lighting technicians cost money. The director of “Score” apparently had to scrimp and scrape to acquire the film’s measly budget.In short, the film is “Glee On Ice.” The music and lyrics have “high school” and “student-written” all over them, as does the narrative. The plot is standard grist for formulaic teen romance stories, and the dialog is just as pedestrian. Egomaniac Ed Wood could have written the script and music.Pat Birch choreographed “Grease” and she demonstrated her talent and vision most especially during large crowd dancing scenes (“The National Dance-Off” in the high school gymnasium and the “We Go Together” finale). Coordinated dancing in which huge numbers of people are all doing the same thing can be striking visually. “Score” scores an unexpected point or two when a sizable group of hockey players suddenly breaks out in song and performs a rather imaginative dance routine on ice. Bright red hockey suits make for a colorful scene on the screen as the men move in unison. It would be a mistake to base the merit of the entire movie solely on this scene. The dancing group of hockey players provides the film’s only highlight.Musical films are difficult to make. The movie screen is not a theater stage, where musicals unfold most effectively. The theater audience expects characters to sing a song at the drop of a hat. The distance from the audience to the stage creates a kind of buffer that makes the transition from dialog to song less jarring. Film is an entirely different medium. The audience is more intimate with characters on screen because of the illusion of close proximity.Well executed film musicals are those in which the audience becomes almost unaware of the transition from the spoken word to the sung lyric. An effective set of music and lyrics seamlessly becomes part of the narrative and helps to further the plot along. Songs and music affect the audience differently than dialog. Music excites a different part of the brain. The transition from dialog to song must be smooth; otherwise, an abrupt, illogical transition can be quite jarring to the senses.It is in this regard that “Score” runs afoul. There are no carefully crafted juxtapositions between dialog and song. It’s as if the writer mindlessly plopped songs in the middle of scenes with no regard to whether it made sense cinematically or whether it was necessary to insert a musical number to accentuate or add to the narrative. The writer of THIS musical, unfortunately, had no idea how to write a musical for film and, I fear, for even the stage. Since the writer and director are the same man, I wish I’d been a fly on the wall to witness what and whose strings he had to pull to get the green light for this project.So what is “Score”? It’s a hodgepodge of scenes, whose order is dictated by a mere thread of a plot. There are two types of scenes: Musical and non-musical. Scenes in which the actors have lines to speak are made cartoonish by the manner in which the actors deliver their lines. The actors do not create characters whom they embody; rather, they create caricatures whom they merely animate with broad gestures, exaggerated facial expressions, and delivering lines with all the real-life subtlety of a trumpeting elephant.However…If you are an Olivia Newton-John fan, BUY THIS. Buy this DVD for no other reason than to watch Olivia. Despite the fact that she’s buried up to her neck in a clump of dirt and was unable to escape it until the director said, “It’s a wrap!,” she still displays that certain charm, that certain je ne sais quoi, which endeared her to millions of fans from the moment the world first laid eyes on her.

Watch it then celly

I bought this as a replacement for a well used CD that my daughter had bought second hand for her 2 1/2 year old son who is a hockey freak. Great hockey musical. My grandson knows more about the rules of hockey than I do. Would purchase it again. Amazon shipped it and it arrived prior to indicated arrival date.