wonderful musical though it took me many years to realise this

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2009)

I saw the stage version when it was first in London and was disappointed - I felt it wasn't up to the standard of earlier R&H shows. The story was quite good, but the songs disappointed me.
When it was out on celluloid, I wasn't interested enough to see it and I really had no interest in Julie Andrews and knew nothing of Christopher Plummer. I just said "it's the worst R&H show I've seen, I can't be bothered with the movie."
It took until recently when I saw a DVD of it going very very cheap in a supermarket that I thought, well, my husband likes this movie, might as well add it to the collection - and of course we have visited Salzburg a number of times when staying in that area of Europe so it'd be good to see the city again. I expect I can sit through it OK....
Instead I was entranced. It's wonderful, Julie Andrews was perfect and Christopher Plummer simply divine. To think I've missed out all these years. Unmissable.