The Trouble with Angels
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Movie Reviews of The Trouble with Angels
Movie Review: More than a comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is warm and humorous but there is a more serious theme at work here and that concerns a person in the process of discovering God. If you watch the movie carefully, you will see the slow awakening of Mary throughout the course of the movie. She learns about God through watching the nuns (their love and devotion to God and to each other) and from being exposed to situations that aren't what they appear to be. Mary is bored when she has to "volunteer" at the old age home but is moved when she sees the Mother Superior giving comfort to an elderly woman who has been forgotten by her family. She is further awakened when she learns a beautiful nun is willing to sacrifice her beauty because of her love for God, and finally, at at point where she thinks the Mother Superior is made of ice, she is able to see the depths of feeling that lay beneath her cool surface. There are many indications that Mary is growing spiritually and is struggling internally with something that the viewers can only understand fully in retrospect (because it is not revealed to us until the end).
I am not Catholic but this film transcends any denomination. It is a beautiful love story that celebrates youth, friendship, kindness, understanding and devotion to others, but especially a devotion to God.
Movie Review: Great nun comedy flick!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this movie (and its sequel, Where Angels Go...Trouble Follows) back in the summer of '93 when they were shown on the TNT channel one weekend during the "100% Weird" mini-marathon on a Friday evening (I went to camp for two weeks a couple of days later, and got the video of this movie when I got back). I really loved this movie after first seeing it and was quite tickled at the constant havoc that Hayley Mills and June Harding's characters (named Mary and Rachel, respectively) caused for the Mother Superior and other nuns in the Catholic boarding school convent. Just think of the pranks that Mary and Rachel pulled: having tours of the nuns' cloister (and having to get out through the fire exit), putting powder bubble bath in the nuns' sugar bowls, and other hilarious stunts. My mother first saw this movie when it first came out in '66 and liked it a lot. When I got back from my week at summer camp, I saw the VHS of it at the store and started enjoying it again. Great movie, great characters, a heaping amount of comedy. On this DVD, the picture quality is sharper and the audio is great as well. This is one of my favorites; I just got it for Christmas!!!Movie Review: Classic Comedy for Family Viewing
Summary: 5 Stars
This '60s classic, which is Hayley Mills' best film, grows even better with age. Mills plays the out-of-control wild child at a girls' school run by nuns. The movie, like the book it is based on, goes through a series of comedic situations that Mills gets the girls into, season after season, until the surprise ending as the girls graduate.
What makes the films so great is the mood it sets--it was made just at the time the Catholic Church was changing its rules and it mixes the modern antics of the girls with the traditional values of the nuns. It has many great messages and it one of the most moral movies you have have your children watch. They'll be entertained while getting the message. And you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy it!
Note that this may be slightly edited from the film we originally saw in the theatre. The closing has a noticeable edit where the music plays just as the credits start, so there may be a couple of other small things that were cut for length.
One of my top five movies of all time. I just wish there were some extras on the DVD!
Movie Review: Scathingly brilliant and a blast
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD is in good quality, and the film may be one of the most underrated ever. Everything ist great, everything is symbolic, logical, brilliantly photographed, the colours are vivid and certainly not composed and chosen by pure coincidence, the men are almost absent and reputed worse than the allegedly severe nuns, it's funny, wise, witty, and it tells much of female adolescence, mental development and initiation, by minimalistic means and a brilliantly acting Hayley Mills who's face watching the nuns in private moments tells more than any dialogue (which is also very good & witty). Rosalind Russell has a very charismatic voice and is credible in every moment, and when she tells that she could have become a fashion designer in earlier days, one remembers her parts in screwball comedies such as "His Girl Friday" (1940), and one realizes that she's credible in both parts, as Mother Superior would have been a very good, vivid fashion designer. But Mother Superior says (with this gorgeous voice which makes you believe every word): "I found something better". Miss Russel did so, too.Movie Review: To be seen OVER and OVER !
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie so much, I own both the VHS and DVD versions. Both contain the movie and not much extras. That is fine, because this is a classic comedy must have.
The situation / slap-stick comedy of this film can be seen by the whole family without any exceptions. Even if you are not Catholic, you will easily find this movie funny. The only thing Catholic about it is its setting and the fact there are Nuns in it.
This is Classic Early Disney... fun for all. And even if you have seen it, you can enjoy it over and over and still laugh everytime.
This is a funny view of 2 girls finding their way in life at an all girls Catholic boarding school. They get in many comedic situations that the Nuns just happen to catch them in everytime.
Also, this is a Full Screen movie, but NOT "Pan and Scan". Read the correct review of why, by a reviewer in the sequal "Where Angles go Trouble Follows."