Ziegfeld Follies
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Movie Reviews of Ziegfeld Follies
Movie Review: For musical lovers
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought it for my wife, who is a musical lover, big fan of Fred Astaire , Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, etc.
She loved it.
Movie Review: Ziegfeld Follies
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a huge musical fan and some of my favorite stars ever are in this movie, but it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. Ziegfeld Follies is just a conglomeration of musical numbers, comedies and anything else they wanted to put in. I did like Judy Garland's number (I give her 5 stars) and Cyd Charisse's ballet. That was the best part of the whole movie. But if you want to see the stars at their best - just rent one of their movies. They shine far better!Movie Review: An un-movie
Summary: 2 Stars
This isn't a movie at all, by any usual definition. Rather it's a series of grossly over-produced musical and dance extravaganzas, interspersed with stale and mostly un-funny comedy bits. If you like Hollywood excess at its most excessive, this is for you.
For decades Flo Ziegfeld dominated the pretty girl, funny men area of show business, presenting his shows at the New Amsterdam theater on 42nd Street, just off Broadway and Times Square. Among his comic stars were W.C. Fields, Will Rogers and Fanny Brice. By all accounts, however, what marked his shows were pretty show girls in very fancy costumes. However, there were serious constraints: the theater stage was not all that big. Hollywood had no such constraint; thus, the movie presents a Follies that never existed and never could have existed: underwater ballet, instant costume changes impossible in live theater, enormous sets that fit only on a sound stage.
I repeat: if you like excess, the movie is for you. But it ain't what Florenz Ziegfeld did.
Movie Review: Thanks to the miracles of DVD
Summary: 2 Stars
Completely forgettable films can be resurrected and beautifully restored. Wow, is this awful. While not uniformly disastrous, it is boring, unfunny, poorly acted, over-produced, weirdly lit, and musically lame. (Except for the glorious La Traviata, but that is badly sung and bizarrely staged.) There is some good dancing (and some frightfully bad dancing) and a weak laugh or two in a couple of comedy sections, but I will be passing this along somewhere.....just gotta figure out who!
I bought this as an Astaire fan. He is certainly has all the highlights in this, but small highlights they are. Not worth much.
Movie Review: Ziegfeld Follies - a big disappointment
Summary: 1 Stars
While I love musicals, old time Broadway Shows and movies like That's Entertainment I, II, III all of which are a joy to watch and have them in my collection this one was a big disappointment for me.
This is a very poorly directed and the most boring movie I have ever seen.