The film at least falls into convention enough to make it harder to disregard the natural shortcomings of this familiar story, which the final product manages to transcend, almost by some miracle, though not to where limitations can be completely ignore. This comedy of relatively considerable inspiration has a tendency to conform to corny sensibilities of films of its time and type, among other things, being unique in its being so well-done, but ultimately rather formulaic.
I don't know if I would go so far as to criticize the film as melodramatic, as it doesn't really have much dramatic meat to superficialize to begin with, but it still offers plenty of elements which are pretty hard to buy into, even in the context of this fluffy flick which finds times to get a touch too cheesy with its writing. Still, Alan Jay Lerner's script still doesn't take too much time to flesh out the characters, who are memorable and well-portrayed, and were never to be especially rich, but still feel like superficial types in the script whose superficiality does not end with the characterization. Vincente Minnelli's realized directorial pacing is never dull, but it has bland spells within occasions of quietness which are hard to ignore, due to their punctuating so much liveliness to momentum that would be sleeker if the storytellers weren't faced with a bloated structure that relies an awful lot on filler to achieve a runtime to two hours. The storytelling is that of a decidedly rewarding film, but the story concept itself is actually all but rich with natural shortcomings, being short on conflict, consequence and depth, and more reliant on color that can't even keep consistent, at least in the storytelling I will come to, if you will, "sing" praises for. I'd imagine taking home a few Oscars is a good way to earn big bucks, especially when you can understand the hype, for this is a seriously fun film, although it might not entirely be a good thing that it's not much more than that. the play, so they had to conform to the new wave of entertainment if they wanted to get the big bucks. Well, the popularity must have been dying down by this time, because even Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe took their property to the screen sooner than the stage, although, in all fairness, as this film's poster is telling us, they hadn't had a musical since "My Fair Lady".
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right? This film also came out during a time where people cared enough about musical theatre for marketers to use it to sell a movie, without the musical play being adapted into a movie in the first place. Well, actually, the accuracy of this poster is still seriously questionable, because this film after came out about six years before "My Fair Lady".
This film came out during a time where posters sang overwrought praises for the movies they were promoting, but MGM just left it at that, just in case it didn't work out, you know, for MGM, which took home its, I don't know, twelfth Best Picture Oscar in a row with this film.
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Seriously though, the marketers really knew how to sell this film when they boasted that it was "The first Lerner-Lowe musical since 'My Fair Lady'".
MGM is back to the old song and dance routine in Paris, and this time, they actually got French people, so that they would have the accents handy and not make it too much easier to compare this film with "An American in Paris II".
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