A good movie

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since it won the Best Picture Academy award, I thought I should give it a try. The first interesting thing about this movie is that it was actually the end of an era. Indeed, while musicals were dominating the movie world at the time (The Broadway Melody (1929), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Going My Way (1944), An American in Paris (1951), Gigi (1958), West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Sound of Music (1965) all won the Best Picture Academy award), this movie was the last musical to get the big prize. Eventually, it will take 34 years with ‘Chicago’ (which I really despised by the way) so that another musical won this prestigious award. Coming back to our main feature, I’m not sure if it is really that great. I mean, by now, I have seen so many adaptations of Charles Dickens’ classic that I have usually a hard time to care about this story anylonger and the fact that I’m not a huge fan of musicals in general didn’t help either. However, I actually liked this version. Indeed, the songs were pretty cool and I always had a weak spot for the Artful Dodger who is way more fun and interesting than the title character. To conclude, even though I don’t think it is really that great, it remains a solid musical and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10