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Summary: GOOD FUN, MUSIC, AND HUMOR!!!!
Review: When I appeared in this musical I bought this film and I thought that it was very good. The cast was amazing,they had some big names that I have loved for ever.
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Summary: Looking better with each passing year...
Review: Those of us who love movie musicals have a very tough fact to admit to ourselves: the movie musical is as dead as Elvis, and just as unresurrectable. Therefore, when looking back to those periods of Hollywood history when musicals were made in great abundance, from the 1930s through the 1970s, we begin to see that a lot of those films really were good, and look better all the time. Many of them are so specifically of their period that they become camp, some actually have a longer shelf life than on first glance, and others are just too much for any period, period. George Sidney's 1963 adaptation of the Broadway success BYE BYE BIRDIE falls into the middle category. Jam-packed with talent, colorful, breezy, and fast-moving, it's a really snappy piece of musical entertainment.Yes, it most definitely alters the Broadway material, but the play isn't a sacred cow the way MY FAIR LADY is, for example. The screen adaptation of BIRDIE streamlines the plot, switches the order of the songs, and adds a completely different denouement, all in the cause of quickening the pace, and putting one of its stars, Ann-Margret, front and center. This film is the defining record of when she became a true movie star. Lending their considerable talents on screen are Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Bobby Rydell, Maureen Stapleton, and Paul Lynde (plus Ed Sullivan!). The picture fairly zips along, propelled by the sparkling score, and Onna White's kicky dances. The DVD is sharp, clear, and punched up with Dolby Digital sound. This is only fitting in that BIRDIE was the first musical ever to be enlarged from 35mm anamorphic Panavision to 70mm stereo for its initial (non-roadshow) engagements. This fun musical looks better and better all the time.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: This movie is such a great way to show little kids what it was like in the 50's and 60's (like me!!!) Ann-Margeret played a faboulous Kim Mcafee and her father (played by Paul Lynde)did a great job!! The best!!!!
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Summary: 1960's "Lounge Freaks" will love this musical production!
Review: A wonderful treat loaded with great memorable tunes and performances, especially by Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton and a very young and vibrant Ann Margaret. Everyone watching this will "Put On A Happy Face." Please note: The date listed for this film is 1968. It was actually released five years earlier in 1963.
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Summary: Bye Bye Birdie is the BEST movie ever made!
Review: BYE BYE BIRDIE!!!!! It's the best! Especially Dick Van Dyke & the flying turtle!!!! Kim is the bestest!!! You should all worship this movie in a shrine in your home! So do it! NOW!
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Summary: Funny, romantic plot and really catchy, fun songs!
Review: A really good, classic musical. First watched before my school chose this as the spring musical two years ago. Still find myself humming the songs.
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Summary: Shoot me and put me out of my misery!
Review: In a word. . . STUPID. This movie has wierd songs, stupid lyrics and not a thing to do with the original musical. It is just awful. It just made me scoff. No talent except for Ann- Margret and Dick Van Dyke! GAG ME!
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Summary: Very good acting and singing. But stupid concept
Review: This is a very good movie with great stars and great singing and acting. But has probably one of the dumbest plot lines in the movie industry!!
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Summary: Good Old Fashioned Fun
Review: This movie is a favorite of mine. I remembered the songs and still find myself humming them every so often. There is not much realism, but why does every movie have to be realistic? Sometimes you just want plain good old fun and this movie delivers!
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Summary: Flawed but Wonderful
Review: It's easy enough finding the flaws in "Bye Bye Birdie". It ignores much of the original Broadway musical on which it is supposedly based and it has silly new sub-plot about a magic new chemical formula. But Ann-Margaret belting out the movie's theme song "Bye Bye Birdie" is a greater work of art than the Venus DeMilo. (This statement was written originally about Marelene Dietrich in "Destry", but it equally applys here.) The movie has a great deal of plain silliness and the adult love plot between Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dykes slows things down a bit, but between the tedium there are moments of magic. Ann-Margaret manages to be both innocent and sexy at the same time. Paul Lynde was made for the part of the father of a "typical American teenager" and Dick Van Dyke's vocal and dancing talent is put to go use also. Special mention also must go to the choreographer Onna White. White seems to have a particular skill in staging large ensemble dance numbers as she did in "Oliver". The choreography of the entire town coming out to receive Birdie at the court house is some of her best work. "Bye Bye Birdie" will never make the list of the "10 Greatest Film", but it will always be a personal favorite of many.
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