#91 on 1998 AFI 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
I saw this movie for the first time when I was a kid and I liked it. There are some really great songs in this musical and wonderful set pieces. But that's about it. The movie as a whole makes very little sense and has no real ending. It's not surprising that it didn't make it back on to the Top 100 list in 2007, because it really has not held up well over time. If you think you like this movie, I challenge you to go back and watch it again, then make a list of what was good and what was bad and see what you come up with. Because I thought I liked this movie, and then we watched it and it turns out, it was kind of terrible. So here is my list:
Good:
The scene at Ascot
Eliza's father and his friends (especially their first song)
The costumes, mostly
Bad:
The lip synch, especially in "Get Me To The Church on Time"
Rex Harrison sing-talks all his songs
Eliza's response to everything for the first half of the movie is "EEEEAAAAAOOOOOWWWW"
All of a sudden, at 3:00am, Eliza magically learns how to speak perfectly and never falters again
They skip a few months during the course of a conversation, between Ascot and the ball
Freddie apparently stalks Eliza by hanging out on her street all the time, and then at the end of the movie, he's probably still just waiting for her in the cab; what is up with that?
There is no problem to solve and no resolution of the plot; which means there isn't an ending
So there it is. We both put this at the bottom of our respectful lists and I have a feeling it's going to stay there.
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