Looks great, Dinklage is great and everyone else is good, and it's snappily told. Unfortunately, it succumbs to the post-Frozen habit of musicals to make most of their numbers sound like modern pop ballads and hence bland, broad and forgettable. Cyrano's on-stage duel and the soldiers' farewell are stronger, but the rest feel like listening to Taylor Swift singing in the shower. If they'd cut the songs completely they would have had a bit more time for some sharper characterisation.
Rating: respectable but misguided.
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