An American in Paris

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: No
Watched With: Myself

Nope, no good.

It's kinda ridiculous I paid under $10 to buy this film and watch it on bluray for the first time in higher quality than it probably has ever been seen even in it's original theatrical run. Looks great, the Technicolor, especially at the beginning with the use of flat colours backgrounds in the imagined introduction of Lise Bouvier.

Now I'm aware that a lot of musicals have wafer thin plots, but this was ridiculous. The majority of the film was extended tangental song and dance numbers, a pet hate of mine, culminating in a huge expensive 20 minute dance re-cap of the whole film at the end. They didn't have enough plot, so they told it twice. Lazy.

And what is the point of using Gershwin numbers if you only sing the boring ones and only half sing or orchestrate as BACKGROUND MUSIC all the really good ones?! Infuriating.

The only good thing to come out of this was Gene Kelly was allowed to do Singin' in the Rain. This one is not for me.