The songs are the real highlight and it is full of bop after bop.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Apr 30, 2022

. . . Colma: The Musical is sweet, odd and utterly charming.

| Aug 23, 2017

Colma is so blazingly original that it bursts off the screen with the sort of breathtaking energy that reminds you why you love movies in the first place.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 12, 2007

It's not a great film, but we sure enjoyed it more than many bigger films that try harder to convince us they're great.

| Nov 21, 2007

When it lets its characters express their universal youthful ennui through hook-laden tunes with clever lyrics, it works. The 'let's-put-on-a-show' attitude is a welcome relief from the navel gazing typical of coming-of-age.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 26, 2007

A winning amalgam of MySpace-ish self-involvement, digital video immediacy and 'Hey kids, let's put on a show' gumption.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Colma: the Musical makes up in heart what it lacks in glitz and real, singable songs.

| Aug 25, 2007

Colma works because the filmmakers believe it can and aren't listening to anyone who tells them otherwise.Take a visit to Colma, you won't regret it.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2007

H.P. Mendoza's clever melodies and pointedly constructed rhymes rescue the movie from the detriments of its tired plot and unfocused pace.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2007

Suburban teenage frustration: Didn't it always go down best with a salty side of Journey? Or the Smiths?

| Original Score: 4/6 | Jul 12, 2007

A little rough around the edges, this likable movie is filled with adolescent angst, youthful energy and hope.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2007

There hasn't been a movie that lays out the confusion and heartbreak of the first tentative steps into adulthood this mercilessly since Ghost World.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2007

Director Richard Wong is alert to every nuance, cleverly framing the heavily satirical situations with appropriate deadpan affection and deft use of split-screen.

| Jul 9, 2007

compare this with other films about being a teen (even the good ones), and few match this level of happy, resourceful creativity and unforced diversity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2007

Mendoza's 13 original numbers...provide the slender story with structure, and overall the songs are surprisingly catchy despite the bare-bones music production and the fact that of the leads, only Renigen has a standout voice.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 6, 2007

The songs sound like they were recorded on a toy synthesizer in someone's basement, and neither of the two male leads can sing.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 6, 2007

An itty-bitty movie with a great big heart, Colma: The Musical is about how we learn to give voice -- joyfully, honestly, loudly -- to the truest parts of ourselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2007

This is a potentially brilliant scenario, so it's unfortunate that Colma pays so little attention to Colma; it may as well be set anywhere.

| Jul 5, 2007

Wonderfully staged numbers -- a raucous song in a tavern, a lovely ballad sung in a cemetery with couples dancing through the tombstones -- that give this little indie a big heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2007

breezy and irreverent in idiom, yet it examines with sometimes wry, but always unflinching, even brutal, honesty, the impact and consequences of emotional betrayal. And it does so without missing a beat, or a combination step.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2007