Okay, so I haven't really done these every week, but I'll try to do them as much as I can.
Starring: White people and Spanish people (they don't like each other)
Premise: Two gangs, the sharks and the jets, settle their gang wars through High School Musical-esque song and dance numbers.
Quote: "I'm gonna dance on your grave! Seriously though, if you die before me I'd probably wind up dancing on your grave at some point. I literally am always dancing all over the city." - Riff (Russ Tambyln)
One Sentence Review: The closest to a musical version of Boyz n the Hood that you'll find.
In All Seriousness:
One might not know this by looking at my favorite films, but I'm a pretty big fan of musicals. And this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest musical of all-time. The music created by the legendary Leonard Bernstein is fantastic, and holds up still today. It's a little lengthy at about 2 and a half hours, but films that can hold your interest for that long are worth seeing, and 'West Side Story' does just that. If you're a fan of musicals or Shakespeare adaptations (loosely based on Romeo and Juliet), and you haven't seen this film yet, then I don't know why it's not already playing on your computer screen as you're reading this.
~Ryan Moncrief
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