Musical Chairs
Paladin (II) | Release Date: March 23, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMar 22, 2012
Musical Chairs is about overcoming impossible odds and never giving up and chasing your dreams – all that afterschool-special stuff - but it's also charming and upbeat, and it's stuffed with great, vibrant, insanely catchy music. No Bee Gees, though. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 28, 2012
Musical Chairs is a feel-good romantic fantasy that is likely to inspire a hollow laugh among some people in wheelchairs. Either it knows little about the realities of disability, or it knows too much. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 24, 2012
Lightweight but likeably uncynical. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichMar 20, 2012
In many ways, this effervescent drama from Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan) upends conventions, even when it sticks to a familiar narrative path. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 29, 2012
Though there's plenty of movement and enthusiasm, director Susan Seidelman is content with a metronomic approach to manipulating our feelings - buoyant Latin music never felt so routinely scene-setting - and seems afraid to let anyone on-screen depart from established caricature. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 29, 2012
Settles for being simple, familiar and ineffective, though I suspect it'll warm a few hearts. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartMar 23, 2012
The story never quite gets into the groove. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick SchagerMar 17, 2012
The schmaltzy and benign tale of a ballroom dancer who accepts and transcends her unexpected disability through the power of art and love. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMar 21, 2012
Musical Chairs wants to speak eloquently and powerfully for the disabled. Instead it speaks down to them in the vernacular of bad television comedies, cheeseball underdog dance movies, and abysmal soap operas. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 22, 2012
This mawkish rom-com mines class, ethnic and ambulatory boundaries for cheap laughs and cheap-looking visuals. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 22, 2012
In truth, Musical Chairs is so simplistic it almost feels like a first film. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerMar 21, 2012
This would-be inspirational picture has its heart in the right place, but with default-setting characters, loudly telegraphed emotional beats and lack of any real sizzle to enliven its maudlin moralizing, it all feels like a cursory run through a well-trodden routine. Read full review
40
Village VoiceEric HynesMar 20, 2012
All would be forgiven if Seidelman weren't so damningly dispassionate about dance, cutting up and away from movement and devaluing the thing we'd countenance so much cheese in order to see. Read full review
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