Sorry I forgot the hideous Life Sucks which would qualify as anyone’s worst movie.
Saw this late Thursday night and found it not great but fairly enjoyable. I think if you haven’t seen the 1968 movie, you’d probably enjoy it more. I thought most of the best gags in the new film were holdovers from the original version. Of the new stuff, my favorite was the “Don’t Say Good Luck” number.
I thought Broderick’s performance was the weakest aspect of the movie. He was too affected. As for his voice, it sounded like he was trying to channel Jerry Lewis’ nebbishy title character from The Nutty Professor. Also, it looked like he was either wearing “funny” front teeth or was pursing his lips so he looked more like Lewis.
Close. He asks when she had time to paint the office, she says, “Ulla skip lunch.”
“Intermission” was better.
Uma was miscast. Being tall, blonde, and Swedish (her mother) doesn’t excuse one the responsibility of actually having to act. And she doesn’t do it well here.
It didn’t translate well, but it’s still better than 85% of what Hollywood produces (Last Holiday, anyone?)
You’re confusing two different jokes. (I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I have seen the play). The joke Sampiro was referring to originally went something to the effect of “Why Bloom move so far down stage right?”
I saw The Producers in Toronto, on stage, and while I liked it, I didn’t like it a lot, especially because of the sheer power of overacting. When the Springtime for Hitler parts seem more realistic and less stagey than the rest of the play, that strikes me as a bit of a problem. I imagine it’s intentional: ‘Our satirical play is even more satirical than our satirical play within a satirical play’ but it was just so overblown that it made my head hurt.
Take all that stage overacting and translate it to a movie screen where overacting is so much more obvious and it makes my head hurt quite a lot more. Where I liked the stage musical despite the overacting, the overacting was just so much larger on the screen, and I didn’t like it all.
I saw The Lion, The Witch and The Warddrobe immediately after, though, and it was lovely and erased my headache entirely.
I disagree. The post to which Sampiro was referring said:
That was mobo85’s post.
The “intermission” joke wasn’t cut, it was changed to “Ulla skip lunch.”
Well, the joke I was referring to was yet another joke:
During the song Betrayed, Bialystock is in jail remincing about everything that has happened in the musical up to this point, singing excertps from each of the songs. During one portion of the song, he shouts “INTERMISSION!” and sits in silence. (It happens to be the point of his reminice where the intermission actually occured).
Sampiro’s original post contained the line “They replaced in another scene with a movie set joke (sic),” so he obviously knew he wasn’t talking about the same scene. Superdude believed Sampiro was talking about another scene, and he also confused the original scene I was thinking of with another scene in which “Intermission” is the punchline.