Customer Reviews

A great musical with great songs and a great story and a great cast - By: ka, 10 Jun 2008
The title says it all, I think & the reviewer who considers it classist & misogynist has obviously failed to see the point of the movie which actually makes fun of these attitudes. Remember the scene at Mrs. Higgin's house or Alfred P. Doolite's remarks on 'middle-class morality' - hardly narrow-minded.

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TOP DRAWER MUSICAL - By: Nevs, 26 Oct 2007
Grab your pearly duds & adopt a London accent.

What a great film this is, great soundtrack & choreography. You feel a nice warm glow throughout & even the most Bolshy musical hater must be impressed.

Nice One Audrey

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Brilliant!! - By: A. Bartlett, 10 Sep 2007
Ive never seen this before but heard some of the songs, I think it was really good musical.

What more can you say apart from its one people should watch

Utterly delightful !!!

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One of the greatest films ever made - fullstop - By: Mist of Time, 17 Aug 2007
Ok, I'll carry on. If you try hard you can pick some faults with this / the musical version of Pygmalionin the ending (a bit naffin the film, though a good moment for the actors) & yes the whole plot is slightly far fetched. Now go backin time to when George Bernard Shaw wrote the play, & he too had various endingsin mind; on its opening night people wanted to cancel it for profanity (the horse race scene). Even so it is a magnificent story of class divide, pretension & London poverty whisked with a liberal dose of chirpy, cockney spirit polished up a treatin the film.


The sets are wonderful, Audrey Hepburn is divine (ok it was Julie Andrews on Broadway who wanted the part, & Audrey didn't do the singing), the costumes are lavish, the music full bodied.

I don't particularly like Rex Harrison, though he is good for this role, Wilfred Hyde White is good & we have a huge performancein Alfred Dolittle.

If you've never seen it & like a bit of musical then the price makes this a no-brainer, if you have seen it you must know how good this is - go on get a copy!

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Luverley with the Hepburn vocals - By: Anthony Whitfield, 29 Jul 2007
Like other people, I saw this film on broadcast tv with a not so brilliant copy, & on VHS. Although this has been 'restored', I feel the people involved nodded off during the process. There are literally hundreds of damaged frames left in, some very bad. There's nothing leftin that could not have been repaired. Having said that, the film is as enjoyable as ever, & if you don't like musicals, (I do not) zap the songs. The film works as well without them, but listening to Audrey Hepburns' own vocals reveals to me that they should NOT have dubbed the film. As a musician I can hear that the vocal isn't perfect, but she's a poor flower girl. In Hollywood today, it probably would not happen, butin the 1960's that is what happened to many actors. Hepburns' accent isn't half bad, let us not forget she was not an American doing a Dick Van Dyke! Almost all of the actors give great performances, spot the one dodgy accent if you can.(It's none of the main players)