I'm not sure how to explain all these positive reviews. Perhaps "blind faith"?
Godspell has dated terribly. It looks like some pathetic mash-up of Dr. Suess and Sesame Street, as masterminded by a brain-damaged face-painter. I'm not sure what's more irksome: the supposedly "comic" vocalizations or the non-existent characterizations. Rather than go on, I'll quote the Onion A.V. Club review, which sums up the problem pretty succinctly:
"As a movie, it's actively, fascinatingly terrible, with a vision of Christ more likely to instill in viewers a fear of traveling bands of loony street performers than a desire to embrace the Holy Spirit."
Godspell has dated terribly. It looks like some pathetic mash-up of Dr. Suess and Sesame Street, as masterminded by a brain-damaged face-painter. I'm not sure what's more irksome: the supposedly "comic" vocalizations or the non-existent characterizations. Rather than go on, I'll quote the Onion A.V. Club review, which sums up the problem pretty succinctly:
"As a movie, it's actively, fascinatingly terrible, with a vision of Christ more likely to instill in viewers a fear of traveling bands of loony street performers than a desire to embrace the Holy Spirit."