It Should Happen to You
|
Our Price: $99.97 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $94.95 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of It Should Happen to You
Movie Review: The Average American Girl
Summary: 3 Stars
It Should Happen to You is the story of a wannabe model named Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) who is sick of her career going nowhere. She takes matters into her own hands after a pep talk from Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon) and rents a billboard on Columbus Avenue. She uses it to publicize herself putting just her name in giant letters. Nothing seems to happen, except she is asked to sell the billboard to a large company. Evan Adams the third (Peter Lawford) attempts to wine and dine Gladys into selling. She finally agrees, but only when she recieves eight more billboards to replace the one she loses. This step makes her an overnight celebrity, and when an agent meets her, gives her a reason to be famous. She is marketed as the everywoman and begins endorsing everything from soap to weight loss pills.
Unfortunately, the plot sounds more interesting than it actually is. Gladys really is the everywoman, so we see her doing mundane things like going shopping and walking in the park. There is a love story between her and Pete, but it takes a backseat to her new career.
Holliday is the bright spot of this film. She is funny and entertaining in all that she does. Her best scene is that opposite Lawford who attempts to seduce her. Her reactions to his romancing is hilarious and wonderful, even though this sort of situation has been done a million times before in the movies. Her personality makes the film enjoyable, even if it isn't the kind of thing you'll want to watch over and over again.
Movie Review: Buyer Beware - Fake Widescreen Presentaion
Summary: 3 Stars
The aspect ratio is fake.
The top and bottom of the regular full screen version has been cropped out of the picture to give the illusion your getting a widescreen - what your getting is less picture!
The studios should label the DVD's as they did when they cropped VHS video picture " this film has been modified to fit you tv screen" as in modified to fit a 16x9 tv in this case.
You have already lost one third of the picture when it was modified to full screen, now you loose an additional one third to one fourth of the movies image!
The reason leterbox and widescreen has a demand, is that the audience or consumer wants to view the Movie as it was filmed and framed by the filmaker, and not loose out on portions of the movie that the director intended.
In other words the idea to release in widescreen was for the intention of showing MORE not LESS of the movies image.
The studios believe they can get away with this, since the average buyer does not have a full screen video version to compare with, or the consumer is just unaware.
I compared this DVD to a full screen VHS version, and in many cases where some DVD's come with both Full & Wide Screen on a flip disc, compare them before watching, many of the widesreen sides are just chopped versions of the full screen.
The picture quality is great on this and most DVD's, it is unfortunate though that it has to be a conciliation for cropped picture.
More Movie Reviews:
1 2
1 2