I think there should be an Academy Award for the people who make trailers. These are the things that really make or break most movies. Crappy trailer, crappy box office results. Great trailer, usually great box office results. Now, if the movie is awesome or terrible, word of mouth takes care of a lot of that as well. The real skill lies in making a crappy movie look good with a great trailer and trick the audience into going to see the movie. Year One is a prime example of that. The trailer was hilarious. The way the scenes were pieced together in that one was hilarious. Too bad those were the only funny scenes and only when pieced together that way... Music Within is a movie where the trailer looked awesome, but the movie was just eh. It really actually got me choked up, and excited about seeing it, but nothing about the actual movie did that for me.
Music Within is a true story based on the life of Richard Pimentel, a celebrated public speaker who lost his hearing while serving in Vietnam. When he returned home disabled, he was angered by how poorly disabled people were treated in America. Pimentel then becomes the father of disability reform in America.
Sounds pretty inspirational right? Well, his story and life are, the movie just isn't. I hate to say this, but for inspirational movies to really move an audience, they have to have a certain level of cheesiness and typical cliche's. If it doesn't do that, for whatever sad reason, it just doesn't work. This movie doesn't have that, it's actually very real and anti climatic, which in turn results in a flat movie.
Don't get me wrong, Richard Pimentel is an exceptional person, and a kind person, and the acting in this movie is quite strong, but compared to the amazing trailer, its just kind of disappointing. The movie stars Ron Livingston (Office Space) as Pimentel, Melissa George (the hot Aussie on Grey's Anatomy last year) as his free spirited love interest, and Michael Sheen (Frost in Frost/Nixon) as Pimentel's cerebral palsy stricken best friend. All deliver. Livingston just seems like the nicest guy ever, George is a knockout, and Michael Sheen is really good, but maybe over does a little the cerebral palsy thing.
I just found myself wondering when the movie was going to be over, which means I was super bored. Its a great story, the storytellers just weren't that good. If you feel you want to learn a little bit about a great man's life, you will enjoy this movie, but otherwise I think you'll be bored with the whole thing.
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