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MCT:August 18, 2008once i have seen this movie i have not stopped thinking about at least ONE song from this movie! it's very catchy and very family friendly and Matthew Broderick did a really good job in this movie. he had too much fun lol!
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MCT:June 7, 2008
Although Matthew Broderick is the weakest part of this film., everything else seemed to work.
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MCT:March 17, 2008
Probably one of my favorite musicals EVER, and I love Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth in the leading roles!
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MCT:March 9, 2008saw a clip of it. i love that opening scene. sounds like it would take the music man a ridiculous amount of time to master all those lines--it's like a jason mraz song.
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MCT:February 14, 2008This is one of My Favorite Musicals, and I have to say for a remake they did Great! Kept to the story, didn't "Hollywoodize" it that much, Great Job!
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MCT:October 24, 2007
Broderik is always fantastic. And what a voice Kristin Chenoweth has. Over all, a fantastic musical. Too long, though.
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MCT:September 10, 2007The music is fun and catchy but this recant installment of the musical dose not hold itself compared to the original movie. though Kristin Chenoweth was perfect for Marian the librarian.
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MCT:September 9, 2007
'Professor Harold Hill: [sees marian for the first time] Excuse me miss, did you drop your...
Marian Paroo: NO!
Professor Harold Hill: Well havn't I seen you before at the...
Marian Paroo: NO!
Professor Harold Hill: Well, i'll only be in town for a short while and...
Marian Paroo: GOOD!' -
MCT:June 4, 2007They sort of kicked the classic in the butt. Broderick ends up looking more like a stalker than Harold Hill, and Kristin Chenoweth ends up looking like a whore. I do not recommend watching this.
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MCT:March 19, 2007Matthew Broderick and Kristin Chenoweth? I have to see this. And I really want to see this because it is a great musical. And I also really want to see this because It is from the producers of the Academy Award Winning movie "Chicago" which is amazing. Oh well you get the point, I have to see this!
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MCT:March 12, 2007
This film is not as good as the orginal, but have to give Wilson her due, she portrayed the characters well. I hated where she was turned into a princess - that was unexpected. I felt that Broderick was a little lame in this one, but the scenes were quite well done. I wished there would have been more attention to the story lines here, but alas they fell rather flat. I chose this one as one of my favorites here due to some really good acting in some of the scenes, but also hoped one would see the comparison to the many other favorite movies of mine.
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MCT:February 25, 2007
This one of my favorite movies! I love the music and anything with Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Broderick.
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MCT:February 23, 2007The original version was soooo much better. I didn't see much of it but I saw the scene in the library where they turned Marian into a princess and that was horrible.
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MCT:February 22, 2007
It's hard to screw up such good source material, but they certainly tried their best. Who in the world thought Matthew Broderick would be a good Harold Hill?
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MCT:November 17, 2006
This was inferior to the matchless Robert Preston/Barbara Cook version. Matthew Broderick is not charismatic enough, and although I shouldn't be heightist, his small stature prevents him from being a masterful Harold Hill. I will blot my slate further by pointing out that the colorblind casting of the towns-people, although a good thing, was peculiarly inappropriate for early twentieth century Iowa. The end, which showed what seemed to be a real march through River City, including the revelation that Professor Hill had opened a music store, wasn't as gratifying as the mayor's daughter's joyful fantasy that ended the real Music Man. Down with televison remakes!
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MCT:November 6, 2006
Matthew Broderick was just an okay singer, but Kristen Chenowith has a beautiful singing voice. Not as good as the Preston/Jones version, but not bad either.
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MCT:June 4, 2006
I got this for the same reason I got the Annie TV movie - because of musical theater people. Between Matthew Broderick, Kristin Chenoweth, Debra Monk and Victor Garber I figured we couldn't go too far wrong. And it DIDN'T go too far wrong. While Matthew Broderick was NO Robert Preston (what was up with "Trouble"? Talk about seeming unconcerned), he was decent enough, and Kristin Chenoweth was heaps better than the ridiculously blah and silly-voiced (how culturally sophisticated is THAT analysis?) Shirley Jones. Victor Garber played a completely different character than the original movie's Mayor Shinn, and while it was good, it was still quite different. I think my mom hit the nail on the head when she pointed out that the original movie made all the characters caricatures, while this movie tried much harder to make them into real people. What happened was . . . well, it was a pleasant viewing experience, just a completely different one than I was expecting. (Last minute edit: Another thing I noticed... this remake, at least for the first half of the movie, gave me that odd sensation of just rushing from song to song with as little in-between time as possible. Not that I minded much, the songs are fantastic, but just wanted to point that out.)
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