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Summary: A Wonderful Family Musical
Review: The best thing about video is that movies which get overlooked at the box office have a second life in the video store. For whatever reason, NEWSIES did legendarily poorly when it hit the theatres in 1992. Disney's attempt to revive the Musical seemed to have failed big time. However, a funny thing happened to NEWSIES. Thanks to the streetwise charisma of its star, Christian Bale (EMPIRE OF THE SUN, LITTLE WOMEN) and the upbeat soundtrack - courtesy of Disney's Oscar-winning maestro, Alan Menken, NEWSIES has found a large and fervent video audience. Based on the actual newspaperboys' strike in 1899, NEWSIES follows the story of two friends who inspire their fellow paperboys (Newsies) to strike. Ironically, NEWSIES' David and Goliath tale is mirrored by its video fan base! Christian Bale plays the strikeleader, Jack Kelly, a wise-cracking streetkid who hopes for a better life in Santa Fe. Musically, NEWSIES echoes Menken's earlier work, ALADDIN, and the dance numbers are always upbeat. And in typical Disney fashion, the story has its theme about never-ending friendship and solidarity. The first-time direction by choreographer Kenny Ortega is a bit pedestrian, and the continuity errors have become part of the film's fun. The stellar cast includes Ann-Margret and Robert Duvall. So, when you need a break from Disney cartoon after cartoon after cartoon, have a look at NEWSIES and cheer the guys on! END
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Summary: this musical is so much fun to watch! very enjoyable
Review: A film by Kenny Ortega"Newsies" is a musical set in 1899 New York City. There was no home delivery of the newspaper. Newspapers were sold by newsies: kids selling the papers on the street. It is up to them to make people want to buy the paper and read about the news. As Jack Kelly (Christian Bale) says several times during the movie, "headlines don't sell papes, newsies sell papes". Feeling the pinch of competition, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) decides to make a change to the price of the newspaper...but not the price that the customer pays. Pulitzer charges the newsie more to buy a stack of papers to sell, so Pulitzer makes more money but the newsies have to sell that many more papers to make the same amount of money as before. Instead of simply giving into Pulitzer, the newsies strike. That is the simple version of the story. It is told with song and dance numbers and while I have typically not been a big fan of the musical, I loved this movie. The songs were high energy and very catchy. The accents the characters used were a little silly, but it felt appropriate. The cast is mostly children (with Bale being the eldest and the leader of the newsies), but there are adults, though they do not have as much to do in the film as the kids. Ann-Margaret and Bill Pullman co-star. I would recommend this movie to anyone, even if they do not normally like musicals. It is cute, it is light-hearted, it is fun, and it is a good movie.
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Summary: loved it
Review: a great feel-good movie. the dancing is spectacular, the boys are cute, and the whole thing is just very nicely done
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Summary: Mockingbird Murdered In May.
Review: Since the late 1960's, the movie musical for all intents and purposes was dead. It wasn't until EVITA and more recently MOULIN ROUGE, that the genre began to show signs of a long overdue recovery. Prior to those films, several attempts were made to revive the genre including Disney's 1992 NEWSIES. The timing just was not right for the film when it was released because the movie bombed in theatres. However, the movie has received a second life in video and is beginning to gather the respect it deserves that is so long overdue. NEWSIES has everything that people like in musicals: great dance numbers, charming music, and a talented cast. The movie is based on the actual 1899 newspaper strike by New York's newsboys. The film stars Christian Bale as Jack Kelly, the newsie who starts the strike. Bill Pullman is a delight to see portraying a sympathizing journalist who works for THE SUN. Ann-Margret appears as Medda, a vaudville star who's a friend of Kelly's, but unfortunately she disappears half way through the show. Robert Duvall has an embarrassing role as Joseph Pulitzer; Duvall's look is right but his characterization makes Pulitzer to appear as a crazed madman, instead of the titan he was. The music was composed by Alan Menken. A delightful overlooked musical that provides a couple of hours of quality entertainment.
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Summary: NEWSIES IS THE BEST!!!!! I love this movie!
Review: Well, if you didn't already read my title NEWSIES IS THE BEST! And I love it. It's a great story about friendship and sticking up for what you believe in. Plus, it's Christian Bale and David Moscow...how can you go wrong with those two! I love the singing and dancing too. If you love the music as much as I did I suggest you buy the soundtrack because it's awesome! I'm telling you girls, if you have a bad day, pop this movie in and watch it. I mean it's a bunch of cute boys singing and dancing...it works everytime. I recomend this movie to anyone who likes musicals, boys, and great Disney magic. Watch it...trust me. It's probably one of my favorites movies of all time! If your cool you won't regret it.
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Summary: Newsies
Review: I love the Newsies....if your into musical's this is a must see!
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Summary: My Favorite Movie Ever!
Review: This is my favorite movie of all time!It's very fun to watch and, until I saw Newsies, I really wasn't sure about how good boys could dance!haha!It has great musical numbers and a great cast.I watch it at least once a week!Also, I have a huge crush on Gabriel Damon!haha!My favorite character though, is Racetrack, played by Max Casella.Overall, this is a great movie and it's really great to watch with your family.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER!
Review: Newsies a a great movie in every aspect. It has great acting in all but the adult roles, a wonderful score, great dancing with such featured dancers as Christian Bale, Aaron Lohr, and Trey Parker, and a realistic plot.
You can't possibly watch this movie without becoming obsessed with it. Even the flaws (like David Moscow's dancing!) seem great.
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Summary: Watch it foo!
Review: OK. If you don't like this movie, u jus a freak! C'mon! it's the best movie eva! (ok maybe not, but it the best musical) no honestly, if u r a teen an u like guys ya GOTTA watch it! there's hott guys, it's very amusing, the songs r catchy, and it can even help you on achievenemt tests! it helped me, honestly, there was a q that i NEVA would have known if i hadn't seen the mo-v. And it's not JUST 4 chicks. i hav a friend, and her boyufriend LOVES it! he knows, all the songs and watches it jus about every day!
Seriously. Watch it!. Just once! If ya don't like it, well, i'm sorry, you're jus missin out on a lot.
c ya!
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Summary: Holl@ from Delaware!!!!!
Review: HOlla!!! the newsies was the best musical ever!!!! i loved it so much! iF you haven't seen it yet, see it right away!! I thought it was unnecassary for the girl to kiss him in the end cuz she hardly saw him the whole movie. and she only sang one line in the whole movie!!!! well besides that, i loved the movie and i am planning on doing it as a show in a few years. well buy the dvd as soon as possible and the soundtrack(you will hear them singing in your head while your sleeping) cyaz!!!
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