Idlewild ...

Early word* on the Outkast musical is floating in, and it's ... um ... mixed.

Nick Schrager writes for Slant:
"Factor in across-the-board bland performances, heaps of empty hustle and bustle, and one off-kilter ballad from [Andre 3000] to a corpse, and the result is a middling musical mishmash that can't keep a beat."

Meanwhile, whilst Variety's John Anderson admits that Andre and Big Boi's musical numbers (most of which are done by one exclusive of the other, as the two halves of Outkast apparently can't stand to work together) can be "incongruous", the project as a whole "achieves magic--something sorely missing from so many movies these days--and does so via a philosophy of respect, but not reverence, for what's come before it; it never recycles, it just reimagines."

Huh. I'm seeing it on Wednesday, to review it on Netscape for Friday.

*That is, if word on a film that has been delayed for two years, which has not yet been widely screened, and which opens in less than a week, can be considered "early" at all...