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There’s plenty of sparklers, costumes, and catchy choruses to compensate for the ham-fisted, turn-of-the-century melancholia. What’s more comforting than spending Christmas and New Year’s with a group of old friends, even if they’re on TV?

With Columbus in the driver's seat, the film meanders for two and a half hours, occasionally hitting a high point but mostly just slogging through, leaving an audience who has not so much enjoyed as endured the experience.

Features a great deal of infectious energy and some wonderfully choreographed musical numbers

Columbus' serviceable direction [makes] a solid film adaptation that should please fans of the original musical, and maybe even earn it a few new ones.