Les Girls
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Movie Reviews of Les Girls
Movie Review: Les Girls Review
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this "old" movie, being at an age where I remember the movie's initial release. I also like the main characters in the film.Movie Review: Les Girls
Summary: 4 Stars
Any movie in which Gene Kelly appears always proves to be entertaining. "Les Girls" is no exception.Movie Review: Ding-ding-ding-ding....
Summary: 3 Stars
The whole production is a beautiful enigma. On the one hand, it has Gene Kelly and George Cukor and the smart, smooth music of Cole Porter. But the stucture of the plot seems to be a bit bumpy, and most of this bumpiness seems to stem from the RASHOMON-like tale starting, stopping, and starting again over two hours. A lot of people seem to think that the Porter score was sub-par; I wholeheartedly disagree. An especially beautiful sequence is a rowboat scene between Kelly and Taina Elg which segues into the love song "Ca C'est L'amour." Also clever are the burlesque turn of "Ladies In Waiting" and the vaudeville-like "You're Just Too, Too" which pairs Kelly with the rapturous Kay Kendall. Kendall is, in many ways, the real star of LG with her deft comedy and her cool, elegant beauty. Knowing that she died shortly after completing this film (and so young) makes the experience all the more distraught. Still, Mitzi Gaynor is a dish (especially when dancing with Kelly in a sexy black dress) and Kendall is a comic revealation (drunkenly singing opera for five straight minutes!) Thank goodnes it's on widescreen DVD where it belongs.Movie Review: FOR JACK COLE'S WORK...ONLY !
Summary: 2 Stars
There is only one good reason to watch "Les Girls" and that is to see what Jack Cole's choreography looked like. Cole was respected, loved and feared by scores of Broadway and Hollywood dancers but no one seems to write or speak about him today. Well, here's your chance to see some of his most iconic choreography...especially noteworth is the title number. What DIDN'T I like about the film?
The dull plot (did someone at M.G.M. really believe a musical of the "Rashoman" tale was a good idea?); the totally unbelievable dialogue; the fact that Gene Kelly looks too old for any of his gorgeous, sexy leading ladies; the director, brilliant George Cukor, is simply not at home helming a musical and lastly, the fact that the leading man, as written, is a boor....even Gene Kelly, certainly one of the most charming performers in movies, cannot make him palatable.
Movie Review: Best forgotten
Summary: 2 Stars
This is one of the weakest musicals ever produced by MGM, leagues away from, say, American in Paris and Brigadoon. Gene Kelly, looking (oh, that wig) more like the dancers' father than lover, is saddled with a weak script that has him bickering, snarling, and bossing people about throughout the film. The girls in the story seem to be miscast, Kendall and Elg especially, and their lines are usually sappy in the extreme. The Cole Porter music is VERY minor and mostly embarrassing. The costumes are good, and the dancing is passable. All in all, this is a waste of time and money. An MGM musical that is best forgotten.