"...the stage musical misses every opportunity to be the sharp, smart entertainment it might have been... it lands instead in a mystifying muddle, occasionally diverting but never affecting."
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"Even when it’s blurry, 'Almost Famous' has smart things to say about the power of music, weirdness of celebrity, force of family, and bittersweetness of life."
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"It so desperately wants to remind you of something else you might’ve loved that the presiding emotional affect ends up being melancholy. We’ve missed the tour bus twice over. This is almost 'Almost Famous'."
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"Although the musical has undoubtedly been crafted with care, Mr. Crowe’s unusually lovely and authentic movie here feels tamed and out-of-focus, becoming yet another blandly diminished stage version of material that was more fresh, trenchant and affecting on film."
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"Fully competent and coherent, 'Almost Famous' has a lively book, a rich score, many skilled and engaging performers and a nicely droll visual pallet from the designers."
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"It’s all entertaining enough — and no doubt a particular draw for the nostalgic baby-boomer-plus crowd — but there’s nothing extraordinary in the transformation to the stage. Not even almost."
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"For anyone who spent their youth obsessing over great music and believing rock stars were, well, rock stars, 'Almost Famous' will carry a dulcet pang of recognition. Pass the Quaaludes."
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"In the end, all that these re-creations bring to mind is that imitation is not always the sincerest form of flattery."
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