This is one of those movies that caught some major buzz, raising my expectations very high going in. Regrettably, they weren't met.
There's plenty of good here, but unfortunately there's even more so-so. Overall, "Almost Famous" comes across as a 2-hour sitcom. A pretty decent one, to be fair, but I simply never bought into the genuineness of this band, its people and their emotions. Even their fights play like something out of 'That '70s Show' and the big 'revelation' plane scene is embarrassingly hammy, all of which makes it really difficult to take this as an organic story. Too many times it seems like a high budget, major studio dress-up.
There's plenty of good here, but unfortunately there's even more so-so. Overall, "Almost Famous" comes across as a 2-hour sitcom. A pretty decent one, to be fair, but I simply never bought into the genuineness of this band, its people and their emotions. Even their fights play like something out of 'That '70s Show' and the big 'revelation' plane scene is embarrassingly hammy, all of which makes it really difficult to take this as an organic story. Too many times it seems like a high budget, major studio dress-up.