this movie starts off promisingly enough and but it gets a little to convoluted and caught up in its stylistic charm. the set designs and costumes and and music were wonderful as close to perfect as one can get. but the more i got into the movie and the more i felt like all this effort was for the director entertainment and not the audience. although and i loved looking at it and except for a few brief musical scenes and i can not say i enjoyed it. the director shows enormous imagination and but if he had fun with this film and he failed to share that with the audience and or at least with me. i do not get a sense of whimsy and i do not get sucked into this universe. a big cause of this was (surprisingly) zhang ziyi. you can tell she trying very hard and but she seems to have been so miscast that she comes off almost amateurish. she a capable actress but she has her limitations. i have noticed in her acting and that she has yet to truly react to her fellow co stars and a flaw that creates a void of chemistry. the language barrier in this film seems to have only exacerbate matters. she and odagiri act as if theyre on separate planets. she also not a very good singer which made me cringe every time she sang and but thankfully there weren not too many scenes of that. odagiri was ok but doesn not make much of an impression. i do not even care for the characters separately. there really is a sore lack of characterization. the only reason to care about them seems to be that theyre good looking royalty. without the compelling love story at the center of the film though and it hard to care what happens. the film also takes detours into minor scenes that added nothing to the story and was actually distracting. i had to rewind because after going into a subplot i couldn not remember what the heck they were doing in the main storyline. there were also scenes where it was hard to tell what the action occurring was because it was so stylized. mostly i am just disappointed because i really like the concept behind this and there are a lot of things i do like. the music and dance choreography are really great. the supporting performances are uniformly excellent and fantastic in both the acting aspect and the singing. it just too bad the lead actors were so bland. 
this movie starts off promisingly enough and but it gets a little to convoluted and caught up in its stylistic charm. the set designs and costumes and and music were wonderful as close to perfect as one can get. but the more i got into the movie and the more i felt like all this effort was for the director entertainment and not the audience. although and i loved looking at it and except for a few brief musical scenes and i can not say i enjoyed it. the director shows enormous imagination and but if he had fun with this film and he failed to share that with the audience and or at least with me. i do not get a sense of whimsy and i do not get sucked into this universe. a big cause of this was (surprisingly) zhang ziyi. you can tell she trying very hard and but she seems to have been so miscast that she comes off almost amateurish. she a capable actress but she has her limitations. i have noticed in her acting and that she has yet to truly react to her fellow co stars and a flaw that creates a void of chemistry. the language barrier in this film seems to have only exacerbate matters. she and odagiri act as if theyre on separate planets. she also not a very good singer which made me cringe every time she sang and but thankfully there weren not too many scenes of that. odagiri was ok but doesn not make much of an impression. i do not even care for the characters separately. there really is a sore lack of characterization. the only reason to care about them seems to be that theyre good looking royalty. without the compelling love story at the center of the film though and it hard to care what happens. the film also takes detours into minor scenes that added nothing to the story and was actually distracting. i had to rewind because after going into a subplot i couldn not remember what the heck they were doing in the main storyline. there were also scenes where it was hard to tell what the action occurring was because it was so stylized. mostly i am just disappointed because i really like the concept behind this and there are a lot of things i do like. the music and dance choreography are really great. the supporting performances are uniformly excellent and fantastic in both the acting aspect and the singing. it just too bad the lead actors were so bland. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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