I just remembered a tiny bit of a dream I had last night

In my dream, I was thinking about the original Star Wars trilogy, and comparing it to the most recent three.

And I remember thinking that one of the real advantages of the original was that Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford et. al. were all much more comfortable with the musical numbers. Natalie Portman, Hayden Christiansen and all the new crew really seemed very self-conscious in the song-and-dance numbers, and that really hurt the movie. Christiansen was frankly speaking most of his lyrics, instead of singing.

And that, as much as I didn't respect Lucas as a director, I had to admit that the fact that he was willing to do his movies as musicals (largely because he was so out-of-touch with the industry that he hadn't realized that musicals Just Weren't Done Any More) was a good thing, but it meant that his cast just didn't know what to do with it, unlike in the Seventies and Eighties.

And I remember, in the dream, being a little bewildered that more reviews hadn't talked about this difference between the two casts.