Eye Candy #355 - "East Side Story"

East Side Story:  It's odd that a documentary about singing and dancing can be so lethargic and static. A look at musicals that came out of the Soviet Union and East Germany in the 20th century, and the comparisons and contrasts between those musicals and those in the West. It's interesting to fans of the genre and as a glimpse into life behind the Iron Curtain, and while some of the films look like fun, some of them are obviously overblown, overproduced propaganda. And the narration is about the most unenergetic, disinterested drone that's been captured on film in a while. The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide gave this film high marks. I don't. Woodchuck sez, "I was expecting more."