My thoughts

Not the worst musical this year. 5 with five thoughts:

1. Getting real tired of the Netflix look. Why is it not possible to color grade a movie in something other than a greenish/yellow tint?

2. Songs are a bizarre layering of Lin Manuel Miranda's style over Rent's.

3. Static characterization. As you say, "I'm turning 30 soon" doesn't provide enough compelling drama.

4. It's kind of weird to romanticize the making of a musical in musical form. Yet it's been done before and done better. As a movie, musical, biography, or any other storytelling endeavor, it's perfectly passable without adding much of note to the original work.

5. The official catalog label of this movie in the Victorville Film Archive is T52M8842, just in case anyone's looking for that info.

What do the characters in the label ID mean?

T is the first letter of the film's title - Tick, Tick... Boom!
5 is the number of bags of popcorn you rated the film
2 represents the decade that the film was released in
M is the first letter of the directors last name (Miranda)
88 is the shelf number that the tape is located on
42 is the tape number which denotes where on shelf 88 the tape is located

i liked it a bit less than you, i guess. i gave it a 2/5 only, though maaaayyybe that's a bit harsh of me.

but it's a musical, and i didn't really enjoy any of the songs. certainly none of them stuck in my head, and there was nothing that made me go 'ah, i'd like to hear that again.' except perhaps that one tune near the beginning that was just voice and percussion - took place in the apartment, at a party, i believe.

if you make a musical and almost none of the songs are memorable, i think you'd have to call that a failure.

garfield's good, but he's always good. that's a given.

Oscar worthy performance?