Movie review

Philipp Grassl, 8A

Humanities, Ms. Moore

The son of god or just a normal man?

Jesus Christ Superstar is a movie which is not understandable and completely crazy. The movie does not make sense at all because there are too many things that could not have happened at the time Jesus lived .In the movie they all had machine guns which did not exist at that time. The movie also misses a lot of important parts that happen in the bible and some parts in the movie never happened in the bible. Therefore true Christians will not enjoy the movie like others. In the movie there were some funny parts but most of it was not that good. The beginning of the movie is the worst part of it and it is very confusing. If I would watch the movie again then I would skip the beginning. From time to time the movie starts getting better but still not as good as a lot of people say, but you can’t just grade a movie on the ending because without the beginning you would not understand the ending.

That movie was probably very hard to create. It must be very hard to make all these crazy dances and singing. The actors must have had a lot of practice for this dancing. I saw that the dancing was incredibly hard for the actors but that does not make the movie better, it only makes the actors suffer dancing lesson. I would not like to be an actor in that movie. Jesus (Tim Neeley) and Judas (Carl Anderson) do not have to dance but they have to sing a lot. I really like Judas, how he moves, runs, and how he is always worried. He plays his role very well. I do not like Jesus in that movie; he does not play his parts as well as Judas. Judas shows much more emotions then Jesus. Judas is the real star of the movie.

The movie is basically about Judas who wants to tell Jesus that he needs a plan and don’t become too popular so that they don’t get killed, but Jesus ignores him. Judas is scared and expresses all his feelings by singing. They don’t speak a single word in that movie.  All the followers of Jesus sing and look up at him like a king but that is not what Jesus wants. Jesus is very stressed and always nervous and exhausted.  Jesus can’t handle everything.

As it already says in the name, Jesus Christ Superstar, must be a musical or Rock Opera. When I watched the movie I found out that it is not a musical but a rock opera, which is where the characters don’t speak at all. I did not like the songs except one where King Herod starts singing. I really like that because I think that the actor, Josh Mostel, made a very good job on acting and also singing. The song is not special but the way they dance is really funny. The songs in total where not good at all, they did not have any style of music, they where all different. The dances where sometimes boring but there were about two which were funny.

In total, I did not like the movie that much therefore I would give it 2 out of 5 stars. The beginning was very boring but it got better because there was some blood which made the movie a bit more exciting. I would recommend this movie to adults and not for children, not because it is too brutal but it is really hard to understand if nobody tells you what is happening. Also I never heard a child talk positive about the movie but all the adults loved it. An adult would not like to watch SpongeBob and children don’t want to watch Jesus Christ Superstar because it is just not interesting for them. Children do not like singing that much so they do not like the movie. It also says it in the name, Rock Opera, it is like an opera and no child would ever go there without being forced to go. This is the reason why Jesus Christ Superstar only has 2 out of 5 stars.

Works Cited

Imdb. “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Imdb.com. IMDB, n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2012. <http://www.imdb.com/‌title/‌tt0070239/>.