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Summary: Best Movie Ever!!!
Review: Meet Me in St. Louis is the best movie ever!! I'm only fourteen and I've watched it thousands of times. It was the first movie I ever saw. Judy Garland, Margret O'Brien, Tom Drake, and the rest of the MGM cast take you to a time when you were more interested in playing tennis, throwing parties, and going on trolley rides rather than watching telivision and playing on computers. It has great songs, a great cast, and it's set in a great city - St. Louis! Which is my favorite city since I live in Missouri. "Wasn't I lucky to be born in (near) my favorite city..." ~ Margret O'Brien
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Summary: great story & music
Review: i love this movie! i saw the judy garland special & they had a scene of meet me in st. louis i rented & watched it 3 times its a cute story were judy is the older sister well there was actually four girls & they loved & wanted to stay in st. louis with judy in love & playing big sister & her older sister getting married & the father wanting to move to new york. thing are very busy for her during the holidays. the best moment in this film is the trolly song the trolly song is a great song & its just one of the best musical scense ive seen if you like judy garland or love her like i do i highly recomend this movie
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Summary: Classic Judy Garland in her prime
Review: After reading the stupid one-star review below I feel I must add my opinion here as some reviewers appear to be suffering from alzheimer's. Ok, I am not crazy about films like this one which fall into the "corny" category but I will say one thing- The Trolley Song, and even Meet Me in St Louis are both classic songs sung by Judy Garland with amazing choreography, much preferable than to just listening to say Judy at Carnagie Hall, where you cannot see her.
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Summary: And it was grand just to stand with his hand holding mine...
Review: "Meet Me in St. Louis" is what is sometimes called a "slice of life" story. Basically, it tells the story of one year (1903-1904) in the lives of the Smith family. What gives the story its charm is that everyday yearnings and incidents become the stuff of major drama, just as they do in real life. Older sister Esther (the wonderful Judy Garland) is determined to get the attention of the object of her affections, the boy next door (Tom Drake). Youngest sister Tootie (Margaret O'Brien) uses Halloween to prove that she can be a mischief-maker on a level with the older kids. Taken by themselves, neither of these events seems terribly exciting. What is great about "Meet Me in St. Louis", however, is that it gives these events the importance that they hold in the minds of the characters. As Esther sings in "The Trolley Song": "As he started to go, then I started to know how it feels when the universe reels!" Most of us will never rule a nation or go on a great adventure. But we can all identify with what it's like to be seventeen, NEEDING to win the love of your crush. Or when you're five and MUST prove that you're not a baby anymore. This is why this film is so beloved and timeless. I've heard the occasional criticism levelled at the color-saturation. I saw this as a way of showing how we always see our youth as a bright place. Don't we tend to imagine our youth as brighter, sunnier and more colorful than it actually was? And as for the songs...well, if you can't appreciate and enjoy songs like "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", I feel sorry for you. No one sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with the yearning and pain that Judy gives the song. And "The Trolley Song" makes me smile every time I hear it. It's true that "Meet Me in St. Louis" isn't for everyone. The overly-cynical and pessimistic probably won't enjoy it at all. But for those of us who like to look back and smile on our youth and escape to a less-complicated world for a couple of hours, there's no place like St. Louis.
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Summary: A uniquely awful film
Review: Meet Me in St. Louis is one of those insidiously bad movies that looks and acts like something worthwhile or entertaining, and even worse, manages to fool great scores of viewers into liking it. I greatly enjoy Singin' in the Rain and many of the Disney animated musicals, and I watched this movie expecting to like it, but I ended up hating nearly every single deceptive, ridiculous little moment. The narrative is unsure of what it wants to be about-- initially the film focuses on Rose and her boyfriend in New York, but then it discards that story to focus on the much-less-interesting romance between Judy Garland and that completely generic Guy Next Door, and then the movie shifts *again* to the family crisis of whether the family will relocate to New York. This is done because none of these stories are interesting enough to work on their own, but even their combined momentum doesn't amount to much. Even worse is the film's ideology. This is a movie that actually believes things were better back when young women forced themselves into corsets to impress the boys. It also glorifies a bunch of people who decide to keep everything in their lives exactly the way it has always been, rather than move to a different city where they would be more successful and where they could make friends just as good as the ones they have in St. Louis. The film helps perpetuate one of the most horrible falsehoods of our society-- the idea that change is bad and that the traditional way is always the best. Of course, all of these complaints would be meaningless if the songs were catchy and funny and moving, but unfortunately none of the musical numbers reach escape velocity. The only remotely worthwhile moments involve the little girl who makes funny, morbid comments and decapitates her snowmen; otherwise the whole movie is a waste of time, and one of the most overrated films in history.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This is probably the best thing Judy Garland ever did, and she never looked better. The color leaps out at you and the pace moves right along, but it's the music that is striking (so joyous, bittersweet, and lyrical). Great film for the Christmas season.
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Summary: An American Classic
Review: If you're one of those people that try to run over squirrels crossing the road, call the police every time your neighbor has a party, or can't wait till the kids are old enough to send off to boarding school and the elder ones are old enough to send to a home... if this is you, avoid this movie. Everyone else, get it. "Meet Me In St. Louis" is hardly ever considered to be one of the greatest American films and I can't understand why. Judy has never been better, not even as Dorothy, and Margaret O'Brien is irresistibly charming. This is clearly Judy Garland's movie but that doesn't stop Margaret O'Brien from stealing scene after scene. "The Trolley Song" and "Under the Bamboo Tree" are unforgettable showcases of Judy's talent and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "You and I" are two of the most heartwarming moments in the cinema's history. In fact, after you get the movie, you might want to swing over and get the soundtrack as well. This is one of those flawless movies that even if it had a flaw you wouldn't notice. Every part is performed with delightfulness and no one directs a musical like Minnelli. The move musical is one of the few art forms that is truly American, and no movie proves that more thoroughly than "Meet Me In St. Louis." Get it and see how great American culture was before the Beatles.
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Summary: Meet Me In St. Louis Is In Instant Classic For All Ages
Review: When my wife & I started our video collection this was one of the first movies we bought. Being a life long Judy Garland fan I have seen all of her films but Meet Me In St. Louis was is her best ever. Filled with great songs and a wonderful cast. Wheather you've never seen this or love it like I do this is one of the best musicals of the century a must see!
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Summary: JUDY SHINES
Review: In one of her most beloved roles as Esther Smith, we see an unusually thin 22 year-old Judy Garland. A truly wonderful slice of Americana which takes place in 1904 during the St. Louis World's Fair, this movie has colourful performances all around while Minnelli's direction is inspired and the Technicolor photography by George Folsey is great. Judy's "look" in this film was created by eccentric make-up artist Dotty Ponedel who gave Dietrich her exotic look; Ponedel altered Judy's face by raising her eyebrows and making her already huge eyes even larger looking via the use of white liner; her hairline was tweezed and with rouge, her mouth was given a fuller lower lip! Perennial Garland classics include: "The Trolley Song", "The Boy Next Door", "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and of course, the title tune.
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Summary: The Zenith
Review: A True masterpiece. Vincent Minelli and of course the immortal Arthur Freed create a timeless film that can be enjoyed forever. Judy Garland of course in absolutely the greatest. The songs by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin seem to fit in to the tiny plot just perfectly. Watching this film like watching a great and wonderful garden. "The Boy Next Door" is a stopper..but most of the songs are..
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