Rating: Summary: wonderful and hilarious Review: I was around 11 when I saw this at the theatre when it first came out.I loved it then and still do. I have watched it many times on television and have just ordered it on dvd. it is really funny and also a little sad, but mostly just really enjoyable entertainment.
Rating: Summary: this is a great movie for kids Review: I love this movie! When I was a kid my sister and I would always watch this when it was on television. It's just a fun and happy feel good movie, great for kids
Rating: Summary: Reverend Mother says: "Pots. Till the end of the term." Review: There is no point for anyone to purchase this DVD! A video tape of the film can be found for less money and the same pedestrian pan and scan presentation. Though I don't know what "extras" from the film are available, I have my own "Dream Version" of "The Trouble With Angels". TTWA should be teamed with its sequel on one disc. Both the film and the sound should be digitally enhanced, impoved, and restored for clarity. (The music soundtrack from TTWA is wonderfully haunting and Mr Goldsmith's composition deserves the best sonics). Both films need to be presented in their original aspect ratio, which I'm sure is anywhere from 1:66 to 1:85. Trailers from each film are needed. Any "Featurettes" or "Making Of" documentaries would be icing on the cake. A running commentary featuring Hayley Mills, June Harding, and Stella Stevens would be a "blast". If bios of the cast and Ida Lupino, the director, were included, I would click the "Buy" button instantly, even at twice the current prices. However, I most definitely will NOT be purchasing this useless DVD version. I even HATE the covers! My "dream" TTWA uses the cartoon and characters from the credits for the clamshell front cover with the back cover showing the cartoon window and candle listing all the wonderful new, additional features in this "Special Edition" release. Come on Columbia/TriStar! Show a little respect for a film about an era when it was "OKAY" to be educated and disciplined at school. A modernized version of these films may make people long for such attentions. Or is that the entire point of this inept release? You don't want its return or you're too young to know what it was like? That's your loss. I want to remember. This DVD version is severely disappointing. I hate to think what Reverend Mother would say. It'll be pots for you for the rest of your life. Ah, but what could've been...
Rating: Summary: Love this movie! Review: I enjoyed this movie very much. Hayley Mill's portrayal as a child with scathingly brilliant ideas was great as was June Harding as the bumbling but mischeivous follower. Rosalin Russell played a very convincing nun. I highly recommend this movie.
Rating: Summary: This Movie Deserves Better Review: I will not purchase this wonderful film until it is available in widescreen.
Rating: Summary: Not Widescreen?! Review: I've been waiting ages for this to be released on DVD. Imagine my disappointment in discovering that it isn't available in widescreen format! Why? What a let-down. I cancelled my order immediately. I'll wait until they come to their senses.
Rating: Summary: Another dvd hack job Review: What a really terrific film that was both comic and reverent at the same time. The sequel Where Angels Go Trouble Follows was equally entertaining and a lot of fun although it would have been better had the ending been different without showing modernism gaining it's hold in the church. The character of Sister George unfortunately was one who did not understand her vocation. Anyway, I jumped at the chance of owning these on dvd but quickly cancelled my order when I discovered these high priced dvds were not released in widescreen. I'm glad to see so many complaining about this and I wish every fan of these movies would boycott the purchase until the studios got the message to give us better quality.
Rating: Summary: Great Movie-- Unacceptable 4:3 Pan and Scan Format Review: Wonderful movie-- and what a disappointment that it is only released in 4:3 pan and scan format. Like many others, I never liked the black bars on top and bottom of my standard television, but since buying a new widescreen TV these widescreen DVDs are just wonderful. With only a few exceptions today's widescreen DVDs are "anamorphic" or "enhanced for widescreen TV" which is the same way of saying that the picture is actually on all 480 active scan lines (no black bars). Note that until you change the set-up menu of your DVD player, the DVD player itself is supplying the black bars for use with standard TV. Once you tell your DVD player to output for a new widescreen TV, the black bars are gone and the anamorphic (or tall and skinny) picture is ready to be stretched across a wide screen. Check your DVD player set-up menu; this option is there ready for use once you have a wide screen.
Rating: Summary: it doesn't get any better Review: there are not many things in life that have an impact on you, but those that do will never be forgotten. Most people believe that everyone is the same throughout their entire life with very minimal change, but it does occur to me that we change on a constant basis, although somewhat slowly. This is a story of girls turning into women, caring initially about themselves only and continuing on to care about more than they should have to, even as adults. Funny, sad at times, not many, but enough,and a real look at the minds of teenagers growing into adults. Nothing better.
Rating: Summary: I'm Waiting For a Widescreen DVD! Review: I saw the Trouble with Angels on TV in widescreen and I was happy when I read that this this delightful movie was finally coming out on DVD but that was until I found out that it wouldn't be in widescreen but instead an edited pan and scan. What a letdown! This movie is funny and delightful and stars Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills as a nun and student at an all girls Catholic boarding school who clash from the get go as Hayley's character is a real handful! I don't want to have an edited pan and scan DVD so I think I will wait until a widescreen DVD comes out so until than I will just tape The Trouble with Angels from that classic movie channel that always shows the movie in widescreen.
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