Critic Reviews
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Los Angeles Times
Manages to honor the theatricality of the source yet becomes a fully cinematic experience. A gem.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
It has that bygone style, in which impossibly innocent ingenues suddenly break into blissfully tuneful song.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Has slow patches and requires a generous suspension of disbelief. But it's also sweet and optimistic -- a welcome antidote to gloom.
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| 70 |
TNT RoughCut
Scrappy, sappy, and appealing.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
This is the first Broadway-sourced movie musical in umpteen years, and you should see it, because the score is gorgeous.
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| 58 |
Mr. Showbiz
Fans starving for some song and dance celluloid may be satiated, but this movie version really shows the material's age.
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| 50 |
New York Post
A brave but ultimately futile attempt at adapting a piece that is so quintessentially theatrical that it defies translation to another medium.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Although dated, it's not a bad musical.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
It seems like another misstep - the story just doesn't hold up to Ritchie's treatment.
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| 50 |
Film.com
A sweet, if slender, surprise.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
The deliberate simplicity that works so well at the Sullivan Street Theater seems flat, anachronistic and almost spooky on the big screen.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Angel Cohn & Lauren Kane
While the cast and songs are top notch, the predictability of the madness makes it pretty clear that this musical shouldn't have left the stage
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| 40 |
Rolling Stone
Shot five years ago by director Michael Ritchie. No release until now. Uh-oh. Disaster? Pretty much.
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| 20 |
Variety
The resulting film is one of too much reverence and not enough satire.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.
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