I agree the music was breathtaking and the dancing incredible but that's all there is: a compilation of songs and dance numbers with some cliché drama thrown in to trick viewers into thinking it's a movie.
The acting wasn't bad but I'm an attempt to show character growth, so many events occurred that made each of the characters confusing and messy rather than complex. Relationships between characters were either unrealistic and cliche or difficult to understand because of all the problems that were never solved. Not one couple ended up together, the whole movie just built up to a show, with no payoff at all.
The pianist didn't get the girl, the star singer got injured, the girl got only part of the gig and nothing that was brought up was resolved. The performance itself showed way too many scenes, it was enjoyable to watch but felt more like filler than something that belongs in a movie: none of the songs could move the plot forward or reveal a characters emotions, or show us something new, they were just dance numbers. Even the made for TV movies have more story in the first few minutes than this entire movie does.
The pianist didn't get the girl, the star singer got injured, the girl got only part of the gig and nothing that was brought up was resolved. The performance itself showed way too many scenes, it was enjoyable to watch but felt more like filler than something that belongs in a movie: none of the songs could move the plot forward or reveal a characters emotions, or show us something new, they were just dance numbers. Even the made for TV movies have more story in the first few minutes than this entire movie does.