The Trouble with Angels
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Movie Reviews of The Trouble with Angels
Movie Review: Works on many levels
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that is so long-lived because it works on many levels. For comparison, consider Sound of Music. One view, it's overly saccharine. In another view, it's scenery, it's music, it's period, it's drama, it's comedy, it's character development, etc. So too with Trouble with Angels. (A) It's a caper movie, a series of amusing slapstick episodes. (B) It's a buddy movie, the two main girls. (C) It's a character development movie: Haley Mills character undergoes enormous development during the movie. (D) It's an unwinding mystery. We know Haley Mills is a nervy contrary brat from the beginning. But only 3/4 through the film do we discover the story of her playboy father who won't or can't live with her, farming her off to the school. Now, a simple movie would have told us this in the first 2 minutes. A really clever movie defers this key fact til the last act, when "it all fits in place". (E) It's a movie about the 1:1 relationship between mother superior and Haley Mills. They clearly identify with each other. When about to dismiss the girls for the fire prank, Mother says: "Rachel is just a follower, not a leader." What she doesn't say, then, Haley Mills IS a leader - and SO is the mother superior. So they have that in common. They're both leaders. It's right between the spoken lines, wonderful. (F) It's a movie about a domineering parent figure, Mother Superior. Everyone identifies with that, perhaps not your own parent, but some dominating teacher or coach of your childhood. (G) It's a period piece and "exotic location" piece, set in an at least moderately exotic locale - a catholic girl's school, pretty far from most people's daily life and even more so today. So just watching daily life in that environment is interesting. ------- Now, you can watch and love the movie without thinking about any of this. But the fact that so many different levels are going on, is part of the long term magnetism of the movie. It should live on for each new generation.Movie Review: Great for the young and the young at heart. :)
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie that just keeps on giving! This is a personal favorite of mine. :)
Once in a while I'll be standing in front of my DVD rack, puzzled expression on my face, wondering what in the heck I want to watch on a Friday night. This is always a movie I choose if I need something lighthearted and just plain fun!
The always wonderful Hayley Mills stars in this classic, about two VERY mischieveous young ladies at a Catholic Convent school. The whole movie is about their years in the school causing various hijinks and making the Reverand Mother(as well as the other Sisters) absolutely insane.
Hayley Mills, who plays Mary Clancy, is the really the ringleader of it all, while Rachel Devery(played by June Harding) is her eager follower and best friend. The chemistry between the two is hilarious. Mary is obviously smart and bit devious. Rachel, on the other hand, is a wee bit slow, and provides quite a few laughs(and there are no shortage of them in this film!).
The movie itself is just plain adorable. Is it Oscar-worthy? Of course not, but it's a great little script with tons of laughs for the kid in all of us. The little tricks the girls play and the pickles they get themselves into are really quite funny, and it's all extremely lighthearted. The ending, which of course I shall not reveal, is really very sweet, and an appropriate happy ending to a great classic film!
I loved this movie immensely when I was a child, and even now as an adult I absolutely love it. It it, for certain, in my top 5 all-time favorite films. I suppose it's just the sheer fact that it's cute, funny, and makes you smile is why it's such a winner. I find myself watching this movie when I'm feeling a bit down, and it always puts me in a better mood.
Definitely get this one, it's a classic, it's light-hearted, it's fun, it's funny, and it's WELL WORTH IT!
Movie Review: a wonderful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
A film by Ida Lupino"The Trouble with Angels" is a very charming movie and it remains one of my favorites. The story is simple, but sweet. It takes place at the St. Francis Academy for Girls, where Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding) are enrolling as students. This is a parochial school run by nuns and is also the Mother House of their order. The school is run by the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Mary and Rachel become fast friends on the train ride to the school and when they arrive they are inseparable. They love to pull pranks and just try to have a good time and get by for as long as they have to be at that school. Mother Superior tries to keep the girls in line and run the school as well as she can.
As the movie progresses, we get to see how Mary reacts to the school and how she grows. The film quickly covers several years of their education but it doesn't feel as if it is jumping around too much. We see the transformation of Mary Clancy and while the ending comes as a little bit of a surprise, it really shouldn't.
"The Trouble with Angels" is a wonderful, good-hearted movie that is perfect for the whole family. There are complaints that this DVD is in the pan and scan format rather than the widescreen OAR that it should be in, but knowing that that is the only format available we have to understand that this is likely the only opportunity to own "The Trouble with Angels" that we will have. The purist in me wants the widescreen, but the rest of my just loves this movie and is glad to have it available at all
Movie Review: "The Devil's Agents"
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Trouble With Angels" is truly a gem. Ostensibly a comedy about the efforts of two slightly disgruntled, high spirited teenage girls (Hayley Mills and June Harding) to turn a convent school upside down, it combines lighthearted pranks with dry humor, most of the latter supplied by the splendid Rosalind Russell. As the worldly and wise Mother Superior, Rosalind is both amused and unsettled at the stunts her two incorrigible charges pull. The supporting cast is well chosen, with Mary Wickes ("Sister Act") and Marge Redmond ("The Flying Nun") standing out among the faculty nuns. Despite the unexpected appearance of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, cast as (what else?) a teacher of interpretive dance, both nuns and students are believable. Mills sparkles in her role as devilish Mary Clancy, as does June Harding as Rachel Devery, her neophyte partner in crime. Aided tremendously by a truly beautiful score by the great Jerry Goldsmith, (which has the remarkable ability to blend in with the film AND stand alone as a pleasurable listening experience) and directed with a sure hand by actress/director Ida Lupino, "The Trouble With Angels" is both funny and moving, one of the best family films ever made. Strangely enough, reviews were decidedly mixed (when not downright negative) back when the movie was released in 1966. But it was a sizable hit, and spawned an agreeable sequel ("Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows") two years later. Today, it remains as fresh as ever, and head and shoulders above most of the contemporary family films which followed it. [phillindholm]Movie Review: The Trouble With Angels
Summary: 5 Stars
Hayley Mills is a great actress and I've lover her since I first saw her in Pollyanna. Later I was able to see Tiger Bay, an early film she did with her father John Mills, and liked her even more. I think I like this movie better than any of the others she's made. It's about two girls in a Catholic high school for girls with Mary(Hayley), the ring leader, and Rachel, her stooge, Mother Superior's words, and their three years at St. Francis. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen and it's good clean fun from beginning to end. It's a real family movie the whole family can sit down and watch together, or one Mom or Dad can let them watch on their own and not have to worry about all the sex and violence that is in most movies today. One of the funniest theams through out the movie is the pair coming up with different excuses not to take swimming lessons, which catchs up with them in the end. I love watching Mary's developement from a fun loving, rebillious, hard headed jokester to finaly joining the order at the end of the movie. It's one of the first gal pal movies made and one of the best. Roselind Russel is fantastic as the Mother Superior of the convent/school and any of her fans out there will like it too. She's great!!! This movie is well worth your money to buy it and your time to watch it.