>Critics: hE sInGs InTo HeR vAgInA dUrInG oRaL sEx!!! >Me: Yeah, because people randomly breaking into song in other musicals is totally realistic. _Annette_ is like an album that has awesome cover art and no good tunes. Seriously, a modern opera without any decent songs? Not for me, thanks. I give it an A for Ambition (and also for Adam Driver, who looked and acted amazing), but the rest of the film flounders like a gorgeous yacht in a storm of awkward.

One of the weirdest and most unique films I’ve ever seen. Definitely a trip, hard to call it an enjoyable one but certainly one I look back on with a sense of respect. Oh yeah Adam Driver shows his bare butt and a wooden baby is carried into the super bowl halftime show by a flock of drones. Trippy.

The film has one of the best openings I have seen this year but despite a standout performance from Driver, I quickly lost interest in this overlong and muddled musical. There are still flashes of brilliance throughout but this isn’t the masterpiece some are calling it.

This is the weirdest horror movie I've ever seen. It's like if David Lynch teamed up with Danny Elfman to make the worst fever dream with the shallowest song lyrics possible. The baby would terrify even Chucky. After a night of thinking about 'Annette' I realise I hate this movie? Not because it's really bad (it is) but because it has such wasted potential. It's like being served the foam scum that floats on top of a really nice soup, inside a very intricately decorated bowl, while a bunch of strangers sing 'Happy Birthday to You' in the style of Wesley Willis. They didn't bother collecting any of the depth or flavour that obviously laid within their grasp when we know it wouldn't have taken much more effort to do so.

I still can’t believe I enjoyed “Annette” despite my loathe for musicals and the trailers smelling like poop. The most trivial plot gets elevated by an excellent direction and imaginative mise en scene. The tone is a little uncertain, with farcical moments alternated with dramatic outbursts in a way that can either engage or completely turn off its audience. It gets a little dull at times, but the ending alone was enough to let me leave the theater with a good feeling. The songs are indeed the weakest link in the chain - most of the time it sounded like they had the actors improvise a random melody while reading the script. The arrangements on the back are pretty cool; it’s the melodies at the core to be the problem. Even if the aim was to make a Broadway musical spoof, it doesn’t mean that you are authorized to slack off on the songwriting (just think of South Park, for example). By the way, good luck on Leos Carax making fun of American entertainment in his first film with a Hollywood cast.