Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 8
The Great World Of Sound is a charming and unassuming film, thanks to breakthrough performances from Pat Healy and Kene Holiday.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
The Great World Of Sound is a charming and unassuming film, thanks to breakthrough performances from Pat Healy and Kene Holiday.
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Filmmaker Craig Zobel explores the shortcuts that some folks are willing to take to become famous while simultaneously exposing the unscrupulous manner in which others take advantage of these desperate souls with this story of two men who set out to train as record producers. Excited about the prospect of helping to sign undiscovered artists, Martin (Pat Healy) answers an ad to train as a record producer. Over the course of his apprenticeship, Martin is paired with like-minded trainee Clarence
Mar 30, 2007 Wide
Feb 5, 2008
Magnolia Pictures
All Critics (45) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (8) | DVD (2)
Zobel ultimately comes down on the side of the suckers, whose need to make music -- even bad music -- gives them an unimpeachable dignity
A confident, sure-handed exercise focusing on the American Dream, turned nightmare.
Anyone who has enjoyed laughing at the bad singers auditioning on American Idol, consider the independent film Great World of Sound your penance.
The laughs flow.
...an involving, offbeat and truly unusual American independent film.
Nimble performers...lift Great World of Sound above its central gimmick, turning it into a subtle, funny and depressing observation of unspoken race and class tensions.
Craig Zobel's soul-crushing docudrama slums in the real rags-to-rags tragedy of the lowest rung of the music industry.
Great World of Sound is a corrosive antidote to "American Idol."
Character-driven drama revolving around a couple of Willy Loman-like losers' co-dependent relationship.
The film's agenda becomes clear so early that the middle hour or so seems to be marking time until we get to the end.
It's evident early on that this is a scam, though the extent of the movie's con is surprising.
Displays all the trademarks of a true indie effort, especially in its refusal to sentimentalize either the characters or their situations.
Everybody's got a song to sing, and we'll all believe exactly what we want for just as long as we can.
The pros and cons of the film are in direct proportion to the personalities of the two main characters, whose relationship is the story's anchor.
Director Craig Zobel and co-writer George Smith imbue our two misfits with plenty of character depth and an intriguing camaraderie.
If there's justice it should move plenty of viewers-those aching to see a recognizable conscience behind our fashionable American idolatry.
A quiet, clever and sometimes moving film about an unusual grifting lifestyle.
A steadily heartwrenching tale of the sale of the American Dream.
December 11, 2007Super Reviewer
Not a bad flick, but I'm not convinced the story is worth telling at all, but if it is. It would take about 10-20 minutes to tell it. It seems paded. Looks like an idea Christopher Guest turned down.
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