The music is more varied. For as stupid an understanding as he has of the historical figures, he has an interpretation of them that he sticks to and builds them as characters. Completely ahistorical characters, but characters nonetheless. It feels more like someone who knows how to make a musical but doesn’t remotely understand the material while this movie felt like it was someone who knew neither.

I mean this is just what a high school theater kid would write. Almost every song sounds the same and the characterization is razer thin. Every twenty minutes theres a liberal pandering line too.