A handful of good to excellent performances (Lewis notwithstanding) are almost nullified by bizarre plot turns and a freakish, unsatisfying non-ending.
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Duets (2000)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:18
Rotten:68
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Duets suffers from sloppy direction and stretches credibility. Also, the characters are uninteresting and it's hard to care about what happens to them.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Box Office: $2,002,588
Synopsis: Duets is a road-trip film about six individuals who throw off the binds of their pre-determined lives and strive to fulfill their dreams. The metaphor for this is Karaoke … the courage to stand up,... [More]
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Andre Braugher, Paul Giamatti
Director: Bruce Paltrow
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Reviews for Duets
It's like a white platter party for people scared of rap music.
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I have a good feeling about this film and think it will stay around as a cult favorite and grow in status over the years.
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A conceptual train wreck.
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Top CriticI never got a sense from the film that singing to prerecorded music in front of beer-swilling, half-listening amateur singers can set you free.
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Duets could have been filmed in Wisconsin, because it's cheese from head to toe.
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An offbeat and occasionally quirky little movie that, like all successful ensembles, gradually builds upon its energy, depth, and momentum the further we get into it.
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Wallows in karaoke performances, while spinning out a predictable variety of plots and subplots against the backdrop of ongoing road-movie settings.
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Substitute 'bland' for 'blonde' and you've got a pretty good description of [Paltrow's] movie.
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Top CriticIf karaoke were an Olympic sport, this American entry would finish out of the medal round. Way out.
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The karaoke pieces are terrific.
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There are ... a number of loose ends that are not wrapped up, ideas that are started but left unfinished, and far more karaoke singing than you ever need to see in your life, let alone in one movie.
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Like many a phenomenon of the moment, by the time they make a movie about it, it's already passé, and thus it is with this.
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Isn't just off-beat; it goes persistently offpkey as well.
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Part of the genuine pleasure in Duets is watching these six people experience the joy of singing in Karaoke bars.
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Instead of translating the best of his TV experience to Duets, [Paltrow] presents the worse in the form of stiff performances and contrived moments.
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Disjointed, contrived and about as plausible as a karaoke singer with a scholarship to Juilliard.
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Top CriticFull of plot contrivances and unbelievable behavior.
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