What gives the movie most of its charm is not the shopworn, sentimental story but the surprisingly good singing by one of Hollywood's greats, Gwyneth Paltrow.
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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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Duets is a clumsily constructed motion picture that could have been a lot better with a tighter and more focused script.
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Watching Duets, you sense the small-screen calculations in John Byrum's script.
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The press notes say the director spent five years developing Duets. He should have developed it more.
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Top CriticThis vanity project ... would give all vanity projects a real black eye ... that is, if John Travolta's even-more- insufferable Battlefield Earth hadn't already beaten it to the punch.
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Every bit as nauseating, campy, and insignificant as its unappealing premise suggested it would be.
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Feeling old despite being new, and containing a less than engaging story that few will care about.
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Top CriticIn addition to its other shortcomings, Duets is awfully slow in getting going.
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Top CriticA talented acting ensemble and some show-stopping musical numbers make the film an intermittently irresistible entertainment.
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Top CriticThere are too many stories going on and too many sitcom solutions, too much unlikely drama, and too little in the way of three-dimensional characters.
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The talented cast doesn't stand much of a chance in this rambling, pointless narrative, reeling off such howlers as: 'I've waited all my life to spend time with you.'
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Top CriticHas a far better cast than it deserves.
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The joys of singing give the movie a hook, but when Duets aims for lyricism, it's got a tin ear.
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