I love this movie... it is so good! It just shows you what goes on behind the scenes of high school shows put on a summer camp like area... its such a great movie...
First, I want to thank you for ruining my day and almost forcing me to shoot my computer screen with your avatar....Just kidding...but not really.
I've seen it...infact, it brings back memories....14 cast members crammed into my tiny basement with our 65 year old director watching this... and "Here's to the ladies who lunch BLEGHHHHHHHHH" has to be the best part
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
it's ok. It has it's good and bad moments. I do enjoy it at times but by no means is it a good movie.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Terrible film really but worth seeing for the musical numbers. Anna Kendrick rules, love the "Ladies Who Lunch" scene.
"She's f*cked, I'm ready, and the g**damn show must go on. So let's get cracking, shall we?"
EDIT: I can't believe we haven't mentioned the Sondheim cameo!
"We are engaged in two wars, one on drugs and one on terror, that can never be won. I mean, one is a group of inanimate objects and the other is an emotion. We might as well fight a war on pasta, which I guess the Atkins people are actually doing."
That "Ladies Who Lunch" scene made the film for me. With the Sondheim cameo, too. I just love when she smashes that glass and has that insane look on her face, it cracks me up. "Everybody rise. Everybody rise! EVERYBODY RISE!"
That is one FUNKY movie! It has its high and low points. The Sondheim cameo made the movie for me!hehe!
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line
Come on Munk, I mean it is bad, but there is some total dreck out there. Although come to think of it the acting and plot of this movie is dreck. But I loved going to camp and showtunes, so it has that.
It's ok. Certainly not good but as it is a record of these kids accomplishing their dreams of musical performance there is a sweetness to it. OBviously Sondheim gives it his blessing- if he hadn't the rights to the songs alone woulds bust the bank.
It's a movie people love to hate but I love to watch.
Not perfect, but God, how enjoyable to watch!
My only complaint is that they act like the Camp never does any "Black" musicals and are forced to do the most miscast version of Dreamgirls imaginable, but the film opens with that great scene from Gospel at Colonus.
I just love the Ladies Who Lunch scene and Turkey Lurky Time... Did anyone else just wanna kill that blonde girl? The Turkey Lurky Time girl, What a bitch?!
I do like some of the performances - they are amusing.
But did they bother to audition people before casting them? Did they try to cast the least attractive people possible?
The kid that played Michael repulsed me. If you go to your prom in drag - your problems are far deeper than just being Gay - but don't be shocked and depressed when people kick your ass. He asked for it. It just pissed me off.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
bwaysinger: That's not the same thing at all, and you know it. He goes to the prom dressed in disgustingly hideous drag. Then when he gets beat up, he's literally depressed and hates his life. DID HE THINK PEOPLE WERE GOING TO THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA?
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson