Rocketman

What starts out as a kind of West Side Story/Music Man dancing-in-the-streets musical evolves into a psychedelic Ken Russell journey when Sir Elton’s life inevitably spirals down into a maelstrom of booze and pills. It checks all of the music biopic boxes. Taron Egerton and Jamie Bell are in top form, and the musical numbers are lively, but I’ll admit this didn’t MOVE me the way that it should have. I’m jaded, I think, by all the musician biopics and their tropes. It’s interesting, too, that they never touch on “Candle in the Wind” or The Lion King. Maybe that stuff’ll be in Rocketman 2.