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Article: Movie review: `August Rush' plays obnoxiously sugary melody
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- November 23, 2007
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There are precious movies and then there are movies about 11-year-old orphans following "the music."
In this respect, "August Rush" is on another level. We need to break out a whole new definition of cheesiness for a film like this, augmented by fake tears and vomit gestures.
"August Rush" begins with a boy (Freddie Highmore) standing in an open field where the surrounding sounds _ the wind, the trees, the grass _ swirl like a symphony in his head. In a whispering voice-over, he says: "I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales."
"August Rush" thus proceeds in fairy-tale fashion, though it's more ...