Semicolon Mom says: I thought all the singing and dancing was fascinating. The story was thin and hokey, but story is not the main point of the movie. In fact, the movie within the movie practically screamed that the point of the musical, at least to the producers and directors of Singin’ in the Rain, is to shoehorn in all the song and dance numbers you can and work the plot around the dancing. Dialog is optional.
Ha! IMDB says, “The script was written after the songs, and so the writers had to generate a plot into which the songs would fit.”
We enjoyed listening to Z-baby chuckling at the movie almost as much as we enjoyed the movie itself.
Seriously?? Okay??? It’s a CLASSIC. I remember watching this movie as a kid, and we died laughing. Yeah, sure, the dream sequence is a bit long, but how can you not love this one? I’ve showed it to my girls, who eat up the dancing and singing, and we walk around quoting: “People! I ain’t people! I’m a shining star in the cinema firmament. It says so, right here.” And “And I cahn’t stan’ ‘im.” among others all the time.
I guess you just have to grow up with it.
I think my all-time favorite movie scene is the Singin’ in the Rain song and dance with Gene Kelly. I had seen that and heard the song before seeing the whole film, and the film itself was a bit disappointing to me when I finally did see it. I might have felt differently, I guess, if I had seen the whole thing first.
Seriously?? Okay??? It’s a CLASSIC. I remember watching this movie as a kid, and we died laughing. Yeah, sure, the dream sequence is a bit long, but how can you not love this one? I’ve showed it to my girls, who eat up the dancing and singing, and we walk around quoting: “People! I ain’t people! I’m a shining star in the cinema firmament. It says so, right here.” And “And I cahn’t stan’ ‘im.” among others all the time.
I guess you just have to grow up with it.
I think my all-time favorite movie scene is the Singin’ in the Rain song and dance with Gene Kelly. I had seen that and heard the song before seeing the whole film, and the film itself was a bit disappointing to me when I finally did see it. I might have felt differently, I guess, if I had seen the whole thing first.