Jesus Christ Superstar Movie Review

Ergi K. 8A

Humanities

Ms. Moore

2/5/2012

The movie “Jesus Christ Superstar” was interesting by the name. I thought it would be fun and it was in the beginning, but after a while it just got boring because there was just singing which made it a bit less exciting that I thought it would be.

“Jesus Christ Superstar was produced in 1973 and it was by Frank Lloyd Wright. There are two main characters which are Jesus and Judas. Jesus is acted by Ted Neeley and Judas is acted by Carl Anderson. The movie is about Judas thinking that Jesus has gone too far and still not realizing it. Judas is trying to end Jesus acting in the way throughout the movie.

The setting of this movie is in Israel. Judas tries to stop Jesus of spreading his ideas because he knows that Jesus will get in trouble. Judas knows that the Romans are looking for a reason to arrest Jesus. Judas tells Jesus to stop but Jesus ignores him so he goes on the other side joining the enemies of Jesus for some money.

This rock opera didn’t interest me as much as I thought it would in the beginning. There were some fun parts were the music and the acting was nice to watch but some of the music just got repeated so many times that it didn’t give the taste that it gave when it was played the first time.  If I would rate this movie I would probably give a 4 or 5 out of 10. The reason is that it repeated too many times and it almost made me sleep because it couldn’t get my attention at all. Another reason was that the Romans made the setting feel wrong and bad at the same time.

I would only recommend this movie to someone who enjoys old music and like rock operas because it would be too long for someone that doesn’t like this type of movies.  People could watch a short section of this movie just to see it but I wouldn’t like to watch it again. I would rate this movie a 4 out of 10. Another reason why I didn’t like this movie was that it was to repetitive and almost made me sleep. The actors weren’t acting really well.  I didn’t have a lot of fun, but still some parts were interesting to see as the movie went on.