Unless you adore musicals, you'll likely dislike 'Carousel' - like me.

I was incredulously bored all the way through, due to the incredibly thin premise being stretched out for 128 minutes. Aside from the famous "You'll Never Walk Alone", which they use twice, none of the many, many other performances are memorable or sing-a-long worthy.

It shows it's just a stage musical made into a film, focusing on the music ahead of the plot. I prefer my musicals having more substance to them. It should be story over songs, in my opinion.

There are a couple of things to praise, albeit minorly. Visually its outstanding, the colours used are lovely; as is most of the cinematography. The acting is absolutely fine, Gordon MacRae carries it but Shirley Jones is solid too.

Everything starts extremely intriguingly, with the afterlife setting. However, it barely scratches the surface with that due to the aforementioned issues. It also attempts a heartwarming conclusion which simply falls flat, given Billy does literally nothing to make himself likeable; he does the exact opposite in fact, as the film tries to OK domestic violence.

This storyline with better focus and writing, with additional depth to the second chance stuff, no musical constraints, shorter run time and you're on to a winner. Sadly, is this state, it is almost unwatchable - unless you are a lover of this genre.