An early Christian Bale movie during his late teenage years, Newsies features support from Robert Duvall and Bill Pullman. It seems worn out, the singing is average to poor especially by Bale and the storyline doesn't flow and is disjointed. Most outdoors scenes seem like backlot sets, but costuming is fairly well done. Dialog is mostly run of the mill. Newsies may harken back to a time when Newspapers were the information highways and all important, but this Disney effort doesn't have the talent direction or musical numbers to stand tall with a movie like say Annie. It tries and deserves some points for what it can muster - maybe worth a look if you like musicals.
