If you are contemplating seeing the movie, I suggest watching the trailer first. It gives a very good taste of what you're setting yourself up for. If you've seen the trailer and watch the movie anyway, don't bash it. You had an accurate forecast of what you were going to see. OK. So much for my criticism of other reviews.
The movie is a musical. I thought the musical performances of all the actors was mostly very good. There were a couple of spots where the singing seemed discordant with the accompaniment. But it wasn't grating. I had an idea from reading about the movie before I saw it what kind of music I was in for, so it didn't bother me. Not my preferred style of music, but it works in a sort of weird way.
The basic story line of the movie is that Jeanette is a shepherd girl who spends most of her time thinking/singing/praying about the war - how the French are being defeated by the English and that someone needs to do something about it. She prays to God for a war lord to save the French. Of course, God chooses her. But she's slow to answer God's call, taking several years to muster up the decision to follow God's will, something she does at the end. We don't see the result. The movie is about her struggle leading up to that point.
The movie is a musical. I thought the musical performances of all the actors was mostly very good. There were a couple of spots where the singing seemed discordant with the accompaniment. But it wasn't grating. I had an idea from reading about the movie before I saw it what kind of music I was in for, so it didn't bother me. Not my preferred style of music, but it works in a sort of weird way.
The basic story line of the movie is that Jeanette is a shepherd girl who spends most of her time thinking/singing/praying about the war - how the French are being defeated by the English and that someone needs to do something about it. She prays to God for a war lord to save the French. Of course, God chooses her. But she's slow to answer God's call, taking several years to muster up the decision to follow God's will, something she does at the end. We don't see the result. The movie is about her struggle leading up to that point.