And the Most Revolutionary Film of the Year Is....

[roquat]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 8:50pm

...THE PRODUCERS! Who would have thought an old-fashioned, legs-and-jokes musical comedy could have put so many people's backs up? Here, at last, is a kind of film no one dares to make any more--a musical that never apologizes for being a musical, never laboriously turns each song into a "fantasy" (CHICAGO) or a slashed-to-pieces music video (EVITA, MOULIN ROUGE, RENT). The camera actually stays on the dancers' entire bodies (the "only way to photograph dance", as Fred Astaire, whose spirit the film invokes more than once, used to say) and the singers belt unapologetically into the camera without a whisper of self-consciousness. Gee. Who would've thought?

Updated On: 1/1/06 at 08:50 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 8:59pm

I was gonna say "Rent," just to watch your head explode.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 10:27pm

I don't know if I would go THIS far, but I thought it was a great, great, great, GREAT movie.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/31/05 at 10:56pm

Wow, munk, you really liked it that much? What was so good about it?

And did you like the Bway stage version?

[paradox_error]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 7:23am

Munk HATES the bway version.

Obviously Susan Stroman and Mel Brooks did something right with this on!

I really can't wait to see this film!