I am not sure anyone expected those two facts to coexist. Well, it made $610 million worldwide, and also it features Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, and Amanda Seyfried singing ABBA songs on a Greek island. “Did You Ever See a Dream Walking,” by Bing Crosby. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent the people who don’t get it are ignorant scum.” Martin’s quote about the film’s reception is one of the greatest in movie history: “I’m disappointed that it didn’t open as a blockbuster and I don’t know what’s to blame, other than it’s me and not a comedy. Audiences expecting The Jerk got something sweeter and more delicate. This was Steve Martin’s first dramatic role, and the movie bombed. But there is no singing, just mime-ing of the ’20s and ’30s gems from Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, Fred Astaire, and others. It’s gorgeously choreographed and costumed, a feat of taste and style. The British screenwriter Dennis Potter’s evocation of Depression-era gloom and whimsy was an adaptation of his own BBC miniseries. From All That Jazz to Aladdin and Sing Street to School of Rock, here are The Ringer ’s best movie musicals of the past 40 years.Ī strange and beautiful film with an odd conception. That means it’s the perfect time to look back on the best of the genre since Grease hit theaters in 1978. We are also 40 years out from another musical classic, Grease, which helped usher in the modern form of the genre. As Mary Poppins Returns hits theaters this weekend and the A Star Is Born soundtrack infiltrates karaoke bars across the nation, we prepare to wrap up another year in which the movie musical has again proved its utter timelessness.
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