Wonderful

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2002)

I own the DVD set of this movie, and it is an addition to my growing collection I will never regret. It took me twice to the theatre to really understand this movie...but I came out loving it both times, the second time I just loved it more. It is not exactly what I would classify as a spectacular movie musical...for that you have to back to the classics, but it has an undeniable appeal all it's own. I have heard a lot of people say to me that this movie plays like a music video, that the songs are fit oddly into the story and many other things. But, after years of seeing musicals and being in them, I have to wonder if there is a single musical out there that doesn't have people randomly bursting into song at odd times (see the Gotta Dance number in Singing in the Rain if you don't believe me). This movie is not meant to be logical, it's meant to be a moving, dazzling, tantalizing appeal to all the senses, and in that it succeeds remarkably.