Two weeks ago, Taylor Swift announced a limited film coming to theaters to accompany her 12th studio album, “The Life Of A Showgirl.” In her Instagram announcement, Swift wrote the film will include a special early viewing of the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia,” the album’s first track, along with lyric videos for the other tracks and some behind-the-scenes content of her songwriting process for each one.

As a Swiftie, of course, I ran to her website to try and score tickets for this experience. I expected AMC to have already been sold out. But after nearly two hours in the queue, my friends and I were able to get through — which brought me to the 12 p.m. showing of “Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl.”

The beginning of the film featured different shots from Swift’s album cover photoshoot — some of which hadn’t been seen before — accompanied by some of her most famous tracks playing in the background.

Although the theater wasn’t anywhere near packed, everyone was singing along before the film even started, which made me feel right at home among the fellow Swifties.

Then, Swift appears on screen to provide a little description of what we were about to see. The movie then jumps right into the never-before-seen music video. Let me just say — for the rest of the film, I was really hoping she would show the music video again before the movie ended.

“The Fate of Ophelia” music video was amazing. It is my favorite track on the album, which made the video that much better. But it was really the costumes, the sets and all of the moving parts that made it for me.

Swift invited back dancers from her wildly successful Eras Tour for the video, so all of those familiar faces made it really fun, too. The video featured elaborate dance numbers with detailed choreography, sparkly costumes and dazzling displays.

Like many other Taylor Swift music videos, there were several easter eggs hinting at other songs and moments in her life. For example, a few clips from the music video featured a football flying across the screen or being passed from person to person — an obvious nod to her NFL fiancé Travis Kelce.

If you can’t already tell, I thought the music video was the best part of the movie because after that, the rest of the film was a headache that remained until I left the theater.

The lyric videos for all of the songs had a brightly colored kaleidoscope effect on the screen, which made me extremely dizzy — just like the rest of my friends. Sure, I like an interesting lyric video, but seeing that on the massive screen actually ruined my experience. I had to sit with my knees up for most of them to hide the screen from my view.

The lyric videos actually made up most of the movie’s runtime, which kind of felt like a rip-off to me. The movie ticket was less than $20, but most of the movie was made up of things I easily could access on YouTube. I’m not entirely sure any amount of money was worth it.

The behind-the-scenes clips of the music video and the little snippets about her writing process were nice additions. Plus, they were broken up into sections, which divided up some of the lyric videos, so they were a welcome break from the dizziness.

However, I do think the behind-the-scenes content could have been its own YouTube video that Swift posted after the music video’s release on Sunday.

As for the other clips of her explaining each song, I think that would have been a better thing for her to post on social media — maybe like her 2022 TikTok series, “Midnights Mayhem with Me.”

Unfortunately, for me, this film was definitely not necessary and a total money-grab for Taylor Swift. Even if you’re a diehard Swiftie, I would still say to skip this one.