All forgivable sins but the songs are uniformly boring. The first song, a nominal rocker by Moore, “When Will My Life Begins” is really terrible, and though the hurly burly “Mama Knows Best” isn’t bad except for a show stopping “I’ve Got A dream” with a whole lotta villains in an olde English Tavern and a movie credits Grace Potter, the rest is dreadful.
Worse t of all, the big romantic ballad between the young leads “I See The Lights” is stillborn. How long has been since anybody cared about a Disney toon soundtrack? Alan Mencken has been getting steadily worse since “Beauty And The Beast”. “Aladdin” any one? Or, hey, remember this one? “Hunchback Of Notre Dame”…
Can’t they send him out to pasture and get a big time modern composer out? Maybe not a composer… get somebody for the songs and then have a Mencken arrange em…
Anyway, this ain’t much but your pre-teen kid might like it.