Gypsy
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner, Peter Riegert Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 153 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Lions Gate |
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Movie Reviews of Gypsy
Movie Review: Campy, artificial, no improvement on the 1962 film, but still GYPSY
Summary: 3 Stars
About the best you can say for Bette Midler's performance is that she does her own singing. And even some of that is sloppy and careless. Her acting is one-note, and she kills her best comedy lines by alternately gasping or screeching them. (Say what you will about Roz Russell, she at least knew how to deliver lines.) We know that Madame Rose's kiddie troupe is getting a bit long in the tooth, but Jennifer Beck as "Dainty" June looks fully thirty years old. Cynthia Gibb is a lovely Louise/Gypsy, but Natalie Wood "aged" more credibly in the admittedly flawed by classier 1962 theatrical film adaptation. Peter Riegert is too mousy as Herbie, so much of the point of a strong man continually knuckling under to Rose's steamroller whim is lost. (When he does stand up to Rose, he seems more petulant than assertive.) Stars are wasted in bit parts, and Andrea Martin unwisely and unsuccessfully tries to be funny as Mrs. Cratchitt (who was played hilariously "straight" in the 1962 film by Jean Willes.)
The production itself looks cheesy and low budget, and the bright crayon colors don't help. Even the lamb was cuter in the earlier movie!
Still, it's an earnest attempt. And with great material like that, it's hard to go far wrong. As many others have pointed out, the adaptation is faithful to the original. But oh, why didn't somebody think to do a second film of GYPSY in the 70s while Merman was still around to do it?