Thoroughly Modern Millie
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Movie Reviews of Thoroughly Modern Millie
Movie Review: 'This is a Bad, Disgusting, Disturbing, Racist Movie!'
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw this movie last year (2007), because my school did the play (which is fabulous). I was aware of the racism in the story at that time, but only knew it to be mild and shown in a negative light. I was horrified by what I saw in the movie. The adorable, sweet, funny Ching Ho and Bun Foo, are replaced by creepy, perverted, 'Orientals', who come from a Chinatown, that bares a resemblance to the Biblical image of Babylon. The Chinese are portrayed as rat-like vermin, and the actual images of Big Mary's Tart Shop, were horribly disturbing, showing the young women, whom Mrs. Meers (the strange, Chinese-effected owner of the Hotel Priscilla) has kidnapped, writhing in gags and cords, while they are packed into shipping crates, for the trip to the streets of Hong Kong.
Julie Andrews is the absolute opposite of Millie in the musical; feisty, loud, flapper-ist, ambitious, and obnoxious - not poised, blessed with a posh British accent, and of course (judging by the aforesaid), British; the unwanted daughter of the Duke of Cornwall, or an origin to that effect. Mrs. Meers is merely an elderly white woman, effected, with simply sticks in her hair. Carrol Chaning as Muzzy van Hossmere - Good heavens! - There is nothing good about this movie, except for it shows where the musical comes from, and more accurately how things looked in 1922. I recommend this movie only to particularly vindictive, psychopathic racists, who want to see the young Mary Tyler Moore.
Movie Review: Thoroughly Leaden Millie
Summary: 3 Stars
Imagine ordering the most succulent. lightest. frothiest souffle imaginable, only to be served something made out of marble. I don't know how it happened: Julie Andrews tries her best to inflate this lead balloon of a movie with her wonderful voice and her native wit, but at the point where Bea Lillie intones that "they all must die" trust me, you'll be rooting for her and her dart gun.Movie Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't enjoyed a movie more in a long time than watching "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Julie Andrews was just wonderful in this film as well as Mary Tyler Moore with the added bonus of Carol Channing playing Muzzy. I was browsing on amazon for any Julie Andrews movies and this gem came up. I had never seen or heard of this film, and after watching it was not dissapointed!
Set in the "Roaring 20's", Millie (Julie Andrews) whom is looking for a husband Trevor Graydon (played by John Gavin) goes and lives in New York city at an all girls boarding house run by Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) a front-lady for an oriental white slavery ring. Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore) leaves home to find "her way in the world" also comes to New York city and meets Millie at the same boarding house. The two girls together create quite a pair in their zany, wacky ways in this madcap of a movie. The antics that happen will leave you falling off the couch with laughter!
This is a movie that the entire family would enjoy. It is funny, heart-warming, suspenseful, and thrilling. I would encourage anybody who wants clean, quality entertainment in their home to purchase a copy for their DVD library. It's a classic! Format: Color, Widescreen, 2hrs 32 min. Thoroughly Modern Millie
Movie Review: "So beat the drums 'cause here comes thoroughly modern Millie now!"
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most incredibly light hearted, and beloved musicals from the golden era of movie magic. Starring an unrivaled cast of Carol Channing, Mary Tyler Moore, and Julie Andrews as the title character Millie. The movie begins with an unexpected crime, then moves to the thoroughly traditional Millie walking the streets of 1922's New York, and updating her look to the tune of the toe tapping introductory song "Thoroughly Modern Millie". The movie keeps the pace with catchy iconic songs, and unforgettable scenes, such as the elevator that requires the riders to dance, Carol Channing being shot from a cannon, and the defeat of the Chinese slave trade. The introduction of several subplots only serves to promote the main theme, "love has everything to do with it"!
Next time you are sitting back wishing you had an exciting, family friendly, and thoroughly modern movie to keep you entertained for a few hours get this in the DVD player - ASAP!
Movie Review: THOROUGHLY WACKY & WILD FUN, BUT MUCH TOO LONG FOR FARCE
Summary: 3 Stars
Vivacious 1922 flapper Millie Dilmont provided Julie Andrews with one of her best screen roles, and a showcase for her skills as an excellent comedienne. Career girl Millie loves life ( She says, "Now's the time for fun, especially for the new woman. The old rules are out and they haven't made up the new ones yet ... I'm going to learn to smoke, drink and, yes, if I have to, I'll even kiss you back!") and she is determined to marry Trevor Graydon (John Gavin) her square-jawed, stuffed-shirt boss. In an hilarious attempt to seduce Trevor, Millie lays down across his desk and says, "I never read "Tom Sawyer." Was he... Sexy?"
Chipper, hapless paperclip heir Jimmy Smith (James Fox) is a more obvious boyfriend, but it takes Millie an incredibly long time to realize that.
Unfortunately, even the tremendous talents of Julie Andrews (whom I absolutely adore) can't sustain this silly farce. At 2 hours and 32 minutes, the film (obviously unnecessarily "padded" for "Road Show" length; a common, but regretful, Hollywood practice in the mid-1960's) is far too long! The film is best at the beginning (Julie sings the catchy title song over the opening credits; Millie and Jimmy meet and dance "The Tapioca") and the ending (Millie and Jimmy rescue innocent Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore) from a white slavery racket. To do this, Fox masquarades "in drag" (shades of Julie Andrews' later comedy classic "Victor-Victoria"), wearing one of Millie's most provocative and sexy 1922 dresses). Everything else in between is a bit of a slog. Julie Andrews proves that she is one of the most talented people on the planet, and Carol Channing (as mad-cap Muzzy, a very poor copy of Auntie Mame) proves she is definitely a being from ANOTHER planet altogether! Some may regard Channing (in a role for which she inexplicably received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress) as the epitome of "high camp." I always consider getting a gun when Channing is on screen, but opt to run into the kitchen for a snack instead! Ernest Lehman took one look at Channing here and wisely decided she could never sustain the leading role in a musical film. He promptly gave the lead in the film version of "Hello, Dolly!" (Channing's Broadway role) to Barbra Streisand-- thank God; and nobody (seriously) ever missed Channing in the film of "Dolly!" The comedy honors in "Millie" actually go to the incomparable Beatrice Lillie, who ascends to the heights of inspired lunacy as white slavery dragon-lady Mrs. Meers.
It's a major disappointment that, in the end, Millie appears to lose her spirit, spunk, and independence. She tells Jimmy, "I don't want to be your equal anymore. I want to be a woman", and she is finally described as "a good, old-fashioned girl." Oh, well... the film is a farce after all. And, despite its length, the film entertains in its own silly, old-fashioned, fashion. I saw the stage version, which, without Julie Andrews and Beatrice Lillie, is God-Awful!! Flaws and all, the original movie "Millie" is a THOUSAND TIMES more fun and entertaining.