Down Argentine Way
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Movie Reviews of Down Argentine Way
Movie Review: May I introduce Carmen Miranda......
Summary: 4 Stars
DOWN ARGENTINE WAY has a simplistic and forgettable plot (Betty Grable is a wealthy young heiress with a penchant for raising and purchasing horses, and ends up in Latin America, falling for suave Don Ameche, yadda, yadda, yadda.). What makes this stand out is the musical numbers, and, of course, the entrance of Carmen Miranda with some of her most popular music (including "South American Way"). Though, this was Carmen Miranda's introduction and debut on the silver screen, in the United States, it wasn't her first film. Miranda made several films in her adoptive country of Brazil (she was born in Portugal). Though, she is charming here, I find it poignant to watch. Carmen Miranda's life was not joyful, though, it was hard to believe for many because she put a brave face on in the public eye and exuded a (rather forced) atmosphere of joy whenever she made an entrance in a film. Still worth a look! It's bubbly fun and Miranda does make you forget "in the South American way."Movie Review: A Great Movie prior to WWII
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first saw this movie with my parwents and my younger brother in a first class theatre I was only 6 years old. I remember the late Betty Grable was extremel beautiful and Carman Miranda's funny Hat and singing her famous South American songs.
I saw this movie again some 3 weeks ago on Fox Movie Channel again, I could not resist the impulse to purchase this DVD. After I receieved this digitally remastered DVD.I viewed it several times again and again and I told myself this amount was well spent.
Hollywood can never produced such a charming mobie ant more.
Movie Review: Evita is not in sight
Summary: 4 Stars
They do't make musicals like this anymore. Well,they don't really make musicals anymore, do they? They used to make them, made them well and they came out like "Down Argentine Way." The plot is just enough to keep your interest but the music is bright,costumes lavish and not a few laughts. The major players- Betty Grable and Don Ameche- are as engaging as usual.Carmen Miranda makes her US film debut and sings, dances and mispronounces her way to stardom. The 20th Century Fox role players appear (Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson)and add to the fun.Movie Review: Old Calsic
Summary: 4 Stars
This item was purchaded as a gist to my mother. She realy love to have this picture in her collection and remenber her old times.Movie Review: Everything about this little demon was larger than life...
Summary: 3 Stars
Carmen Miranda, known as "The Brazilian Bombshell", was the original Chica Chica Bum Chic gal of forties musicals - a large swash of Rousseau on the movie screens, a festive explosion of outrageous razzmatazz that may not have added much to culture but did add a lot to one's enjoyment of it...
Everything about this happy demon (except her height) was larger than life: her behavior; her struggles with the English language as it tripped its way into her head and out through her mouth in accents thick and hilarious; her eyes as they shrank into slits and lost themselves behind her cheeks rising and swelling through the effort required to pronounce her tongue-twisting lyrics at rapid speed; the continual motion of eyes, mouth, shoulders, hips, arms, hands, fingers and feet, the latter supported by elevated platforms that heightened her appeal, and the ever more extravagant gowns that have inspired nightclub performers ever since - garlands of sequins, bowers of living blooms around her hips and breasts, and orchards of fruit growing out of her turbans...
The total effect was that of some medieval fertility ritual goddess whose presence was a promise of fruitfulness...