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Plot: A spirit in heaven gets a singular opportunity to revisit his past life on earth to help his young daughter reconcile his death and move on with her own life.
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MCT:June 15, 2008
I love the music in this one for sure, some of the concepts in it thoroughly date it and will keep it from being one of "the most popular EVER" - but yet, it was still remarkably well done.
The voices and casting were lovely. -
MCT:April 18, 2008It has my favourite musical song in it.. And it's fantastic, yet another tear jerker at the end as it finishes with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' Watch it!
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MCT:April 15, 2008pretty average as far as musicals go. the music's fair and the story's pretty interesting and original--much more dramatic than most. I didn't think the drama was well-portrayed though, and the plot seemed choppy and incomplete. Louise's ballet sequence was entertaining, but random and unnecessary. Nothing outstanding or eternally memorable, but a classic R&H nonetheless.
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MCT:April 2, 2008
I was a little disappointed with this movie. I thought it was a bit boring and the music wasn't catchy.
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MCT:March 24, 2008
Very heartbreaking and a nice add of having Billy see all of this from 'heaven.' Personally, not my favorite Rodgers/Hammerstein score but it is a great story and definitely worth the watch.
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MCT:October 19, 2007
I love this movie...don't know why exactly I havn't seen it that many times but it's a good movie and the music is great.
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MCT:October 17, 2007
Loving the songs, not sure how much I like this version though, as all the actors look like they're about 40 years old.
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MCT:September 26, 2007Music good, the plot line and everything, its what you would expect if you went to Broadway and saw it right on stage??
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MCT:August 21, 2007
Totally cheesy and silly. It was really dumb. And there were several neverending song and dance numbers...they just went on forever. I thought the State Fair songs were silly but these were even worse. At one point they were having a clam bake on an island and that had just sung about how awesome the month of June is before the scene. They were sitting there and a character asked them all if they had a good time and they broke into another song starting with "we had a real nice clam bake..." So 3/4 of the movie was about the man and the events going up towards his death interspersed with scenes of him in purgatory trying to argue his case and go down to his daughter. He was on earth for like 2 seconds in the movie and he tried to talk to his daughter and ended up hitting her. They let him have more time and go see her graduate and the way he saved the day was to whisper "believe it" in her ear while she was singing a song.
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MCT:August 20, 2007It is another great classic musical, with superb singing by Shirley Jones, and the laste Gordon McRae.
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MCT:June 30, 2007
I watched this old musical last night at Kendra's house with Katie, Molly, Brian, Kendra, Michael and Kendra's roommate Kayla. There are a few things about it that are pretty commendable -- the set direction, for example, and the musical is great -- but the acting is just pretty bad throughout. Billy's death is laughably awkward. This just has not aged as well as some of those other musicals of the time, which although dated can still hold up against the test of time.
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MCT:June 4, 2007
This is my favorite musical. It would be my number one if Patrick Wilson was Billy Bigelow, which he played on Broadway.
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MCT:April 12, 2007
I did NOT enjoy this movie one bit. The way he died was so completely ridiculous! He had a knife in his belt, blade up (idiot), and he ended up "falling" on his knife. I checked out after that.
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MCT:March 21, 2007Depressing. I've only seen it once, but that was enough. The music isn't enough to make me like it.
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MCT:March 18, 2007
I own all of Rodgers and Hammersteins musicals and this one is no acception. A wonderful musical that only they can make.
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MCT:March 2, 2007
extremely depressing, especially for a musical... don't see it unless you a. like crying or b. are obsessed with musicals
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MCT:February 9, 2007
It was good. Lived up to Rogers and Hammerstien, but it has to be my least favorite musical of theirs. It was good though.
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MCT:January 25, 2007Rogers and Hammerstein provide us with a breathtaking soundtrack to the movie about love, and how being in love can make you blind to the world around you. Follow Bill as he returns to earth for that one last chance to see his wife and daughter
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MCT:May 18, 2006
If I loved you
Time and again I would try to say
All I'd want you to know.
If I loved you
Words wouldn't come in an easy way
Round in circles I'd go.
Longin' to tell you, but afraid and shy
I'd let my golden chances pass me by.
Soon you'd leave me
Off you would go in the mist of day
Never, never to know
How I loved you . . .
If I loved you.
One of the greatest love songs to come out of musical theater. Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones: A Hollywood musical match made in heaven. I wonder if Jones might have broken a few hearts in high school . . .
Carousel's story is different from most Hollywood musicals in several ways, the most significant of which is that true love is won right at the beginning, then is tragically squandered by Billy Bigelow, although not ultimately lost. Besides such memorable numbers as the "Carousel Waltz" theme itself and "You'll Never Walk Alone"--the ultiimate graduation song--, one of my all-time favorites is "When (the) Children Are Asleep," the beautiful duet, shared by Carrie and Mr. Snow on the way to the clambake, in which they dream of their married future together:
When the children are asleep we'll sit and dream
The things that every other dad and mother dream.
When the children are asleep and lights are low
If I still love you the way I love you today
You'll pardon my sayin' I told you so.
When the children are asleep, I'll dream with you.
We'll think what fun we have had and be glad that it all came true. -
MCT:April 3, 2006
It's got some tune Carosel. More expressionistic in it's production design than other R&H musicals (which I liked0. But not my favourite by far.
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