'Leo (2023)' opens with a song and you think "I bet this is one of those movies where there's one song at the start and that's it" and then another song happens and it's really jarring and the realisation that it's an actual musical starts to set in... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and you're always expecting the songs to get cut off in some sort of meta, self-aware subversion but they just don't... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and you wonder how each song can still be surprising when it's been well established this is a musical musical... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and you wish everyone would just stop singing because they're barely carrying a tune... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and the whole thing just feels half-baked and bizarre... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and you'd have thought you'd have learnt by now but your butt still clenches up each time they start to sing... and then another song happens and it's really jarring and then it finally ends.
It's just a really weird, undercooked experience that's a little more than nothing but a little less than something. It has a few moments of enjoyable animation and it gets better as it moves into its final third (although they may just be because it's beaten you into submission by that point), but it's totally uninspired and generic and lifeless and actually really strange. Although it has some genuinely important messaging, it's not good. It's not good at all.
It's just a really weird, undercooked experience that's a little more than nothing but a little less than something. It has a few moments of enjoyable animation and it gets better as it moves into its final third (although they may just be because it's beaten you into submission by that point), but it's totally uninspired and generic and lifeless and actually really strange. Although it has some genuinely important messaging, it's not good. It's not good at all.