Raw, uneven U.K. import Blue Story brings Shakespearean drama to the streets: Review
. Some welcomed its bold attempts to drag the beloved musical — already itself an audacious update of Shakespeare’s— into a 21st century of smart phones and clavicle tattoos; others found it messy and disjointed, too stylized by half.
That’s the eternal hazard, maybe, of the hip-hop musical: a small but potent genre whose latest addition comes from across the pond via Andrew Onwubolu a.k.a.
The result is undeniably heartfelt, if hamstrung in the end by the worn familiarity of its plot lines and players: From the first scene, we see that Timmy and Marco are fiercely loyal to one another in the way that teenage boys do, and that they can fall out just as easily. A run-in with a few friends from Timmy’s old neighborhood lights the match; the rest of it only takes a few hard words to ignite.
As a director, Onwubolu brings a tender, vivid touch the film’s relationships — particularly Timmy’s giddy plunge into first love with the fiercely independent Leah — though he stumbles when it comes to building deeper storylines around them; there's almost no narrative turn that doesn't seem telegraphed from the jump.
It doesn’t help, too, too, that he inserts his own rap interludes throughout the story, which act as a sort of goofy and mostly unnecessary instant recap of events we’ve literally just seen, and that the thick local patois of his immensely likable young cast often begs for subtitles .
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