Rocketman

Elton's sparkliest spectacle yet

"When are you going to hug me?" That question echoes around Dexter Fletcher's dazzling rock opera - a fantastical account of the highs and lows of Elton John's wild-ride rise, told in frenetically full-blooded musical form. It's the story of a little boy who became a big star while plaintively pleading "I want lurrve, but it's impossible"; a shy kid (an "introverted extrovert") who must learn to play-act confidence after enduring a childhood that would have struck a chord with Philip Larkin. Yet unlike the problematically rejigged chronology of Bohemian Rhapsody (which Fletcher rescued from disaster), this proudly nonlinear treat puts its jukebox soundtrack on shuffle, wittily deploying tunes to fit the mood rather than the timeline. [...]

di Mark Kermode, articolo completo (5134 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Observer 26 maggio 2019