Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Run Time: 2 Hours 50 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Audrey Hepburn ... Eliza Doolittle
Rex Harrison ... Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway ... Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White ... Colonel Hugh Pickering
Gladys Cooper ... Mrs. Higgins
Rex Harrison ... Professor Henry Higgins
Stanley Holloway ... Alfred P. Doolittle
Wilfrid Hyde-White ... Colonel Hugh Pickering
Gladys Cooper ... Mrs. Higgins
Jeremy Brett ... Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Theodore Bikel ... Zoltan Karpathy
Mona Washbourne ... Mrs. Pearce
Theodore Bikel ... Zoltan Karpathy
Mona Washbourne ... Mrs. Pearce
Plot
Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Hugh Pickering are linguistic heavy-weights. They've been to many places and talked with many people. They love language. When Pickering said that Higgins could not take a common flower-selling girl off of the street and straighten her language, Higgins took the challenge and said that he'd have her "speaking like a queen at the ball!". What kind of things must they go through? Can she learn how to speak properly?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4/5 - *SPOILERS*
Eliza trying to act properly at the horse races:
I love how Eliza really stands up for herself because she should get acknowledgement of her work for acting like a lady at the ball and the Professor's mother agrees with her. If she hadn't done the work to learn how to speak, Professor Higgins' task would have failed. To have him treat her merely as a "test subject" and not giving her credit, though she is a female, is just not right. So this song "Without You" really bolsters her up in my mind:
Why Eliza returned to the Professor at the end: I think she had a fondness for him but aside that, I could not understand why at all especially considering he had constantly been a bother to her the whole time she had been studying with him. One of his last sentences in the movie is not "I'm glad you're back" but "Have you seen my slippers?". Like seriously, we're not going to talk about the fact that you were treating her terribly and now she's back? We're not going to talk about the fact that you two have some sort of connection....? This is the main thing that made me downgrade this movie because there was not a conclusion at the end about how their relationship stood.
Though I am upset at the ending of the movie, I must say this is still one of my most favorite musicals that I have grown up with (including "Camelot", "Oklahoma", etc). I would recommend this movie to those that like musicals, because the songs are fantastic and the movie would be nothing without the music. Otherwise, feel free to stay away from the movie if you're against older movies and musicals; you'd be missing out if you did stay away from them, in my honest opinion!
Anyways, that's my movie review. Thanks for reading! More reviews to come eventually.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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