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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 3690659, member: 2504"] Whether someone likes or dislikes a movie is always a matter of taste and opinion. There are a bunch of movies that my wife and I will watch any time we find them when we turn on the television. " Superstar" is one of those movies for us. I like it quite a bit and my wife just loves it, we find it to be a very entertaining film. While I am not what I call a big movie musical fan, there are a number of movie musicals I like quite a bit, and this is one of them. We find the music to be terrific, and together with a wonderfully charismatic performance by Carl Anderson as well as Yvonne Elliman, it just carries the film. Many of the actors in this film had been in various successful versions of the play that had been staged prior to the making of the film. Norman Jewison was certainly a well established film director at this point. He had directed the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof" prior to this film, so there is certainly a contrast in musical styles if one were to compare the two. Personally, while it can be a bit jarring judging from the traditional Hollywood movie look, I have no problem with the different look to this film. But the play certainly had its roots in the hippy subculture of the time, and Jewison had no problem going along with that vibe that had been on stage in making this movie. [/QUOTE]