Mame

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Tamara K It helps if the star of a musical can actually sing. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/17/23 Full Review Leah S I am a broadway baby. I had the pleasure of seeing Angela Lansbury in the original staging of Mame. How could I not like the movie? It took 10 minutes into the movie before I turned it off. What a mistake casting Lucille Ball as Mame. Her casting, aside from being painful to watch, deprived us of having footage of Angela Lansbury as Mame. The footage that exists of Ms. Lansbury's live performance is grainy and blurry. It would have been grand to have her performance captured in a movie. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/22/23 Full Review Victor T When you try to visually focus on Lucy as "Mame," you'll think you need a new prescription after seeing fuzzy and blurry features. We know 'life is a banquet,' but this movie is a mere cracker smeared with butter. Enjoy! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/27/23 Full Review Robert D I just watched this movie after not having seen it for many years. I simply do not understand the vitriolic hatred for it. I also recently watched Auntie Mame for comparison and I found that Lucille Ball and Rosalind Russell were very similar in the part. I never saw the stage play with Angela Lansbury, so I can't comment on anything except the fact that she was a better singer than Lucille. Clearly, Lucille was too old for the part, but you'd never know it from watching her dance. She probably should have used the year recovery period for her broken leg to get a facelift. That would have eliminated the need for the much maligned soft focus. If you think about it, this movie was doomed to bad reviews even before it was made. The era of big Hollywood musicals was long over--the critics destroyed Hello Dolly as well even though Barbra Streisand was magnificent in it. I don't think an Angela Lansbury movie would have fared too much better. Lucille Ball did everything she was supposed to do for this movie (she was known to be very precise in everything she did) and I think she did a fine job. There were also some moments that no one could have done better: shutting down the snobs from Connecticut for one, and skating out of Bergdorfs for another. The bad reviews are mostly cheap shots at her age and voice. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/23 Full Review Joe S HOLLYWOOD HAS A HABIT OF TAKING GREAT MUSICALS AND SCREWING THEM UP. TO HAVE DONE THIS MUSICAL WITHOUT ANGELA LANSBURY'S GREAT PERFORMANCE IS INEXCUSABLE. SHAME SHANE SHAME! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/21/23 Full Review James M A terrible film. Lucy was too old for the role and she couldn't sing the songs because she isn't a good singer. The Broadway show Mame is good, with good songs. Get the Angela Lansbury original cast recording. Angela can sing. And the songs are great. As far as Lucy's performance is concerned. Sad, Just sad. Avoid this movie. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/22/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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