You know what? This thing is sweetly affable even at its silliest.

Like a ... pop song that leaves your head the second it's over, The High Note is pleasant enough while you're experiencing it, but it refuses to linger after the credits roll.

While Maggie eventually proves her competence as a producer, there's no attempt to suggest that her work is especially brilliant or groundbreaking. Nor could any claim remotely like that be made for The High Note. But all goes down easy.

The screenplay is very predictable and offers nothing new for the genre. There are so many tropes that we've seen before.