Under the radar of most people — not including New Beverly Cinema programmer Phil Blankenship, who brought this film to my attention when he booked it as a midnight movie a few months ago — Standing Ovation (now available at Amazon.com) snuck in and out of theaters this summer. But this shrieky kids’ musical isn’t merely a would-be High School Musical ; it’s the kind of delicious disaster you were hoping Burlesque was going to be.
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On DVD: Standing Ovation is the Movie You Wanted Burlesque To Be
