Pulls you in with its irrepressible optimism

Rating: 10/10 (29 March 2007)

I've never been a musicals kind of guy. I thought The Rocky Horror Picture Show was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I've avoided most others like the plague.
The three hour runtime of this movie always put me off, but I finally saw it with my girlfriend a few weeks ago and was astonished at how likable the film was.
The fact that it was good wasn't a shocker since it's an all time classic that won half a dozen Oscars, but the fact that it could pull me in amazed me.
The story is compelling because of Julie Andrews' performance. She pulls you into her plight, which seems a bit one dimensional at the start but fills up with more emotional depth as the story presses on and becomes more wrapped up in everyone's lives.
It discusses formerly taboo subjects like the Nazi occupation of Austria and what it felt like to be an appeaser versus a renegade in a time where people's true patriotism was tested.
I couldn't think of this movie being more fulfilling and well-done. See it. It's a classic.