Oliver!
Product Details | Similar Products | Customer Reviews | Starring: ~ Mark Lester, Ron Moody Johnny Green Carol Reed Onna White List Price: $12.99 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $3.00 (23%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours  |
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| | Customer Reviews: I love this musical (18 June 2010)This is definitly the best musical I have EVER seen. Sometimes you can tell with the older films that they were made a while ago, but Oliver! isn't one of them. As soon as the music starts, you are captivated and riveted to your seat. Awesome performance by Shani Wallis, Jack Wild and Ron Moody. I personally think that Oliver Reed could've done a better job. Mark Lester was a little too young to do a good acting job, but he was so cute and had the perfect look for Oliver. The choreography in this film makes me shake my head every time. Onna White really did a fantastic job on it. My favorite songs are "Consider Youself", "I'd do Anything", "Pick a Pocket", and "Oom Pah Pah". All of the songs were brilliant. The words, the music...I could go on and on all day. WATCH THIS MUSICAL! Review For Oliver (20 May 2010)I was very pleased with the product I had received and the promptness from the supplier. I would not only order from this person but I would also reccomend them. Musical children (18 May 2010)My granddaughters love to sing along with both the DVD and CD. They also sing the songs while riding in the car, at the dinner table, doing chores, etc. Excellent purchase... (16 March 2010)I received the movie before the expected date and it is in new condition as expected. My daughter is in drama at her elementary school this year and they are doing the Oliver! musical and having this DVD and CD combo is really helping her prepare. Thanks! Oliver! .. What no Twist? (07 March 2010)Oliver!: 5 out of 10: A musical is often only as good as its music. And on that front Oliver Twist, in particular the first half, is a winner. With large musical numbers seeming starring every single person in England, Oliver! simply delivers. Such catchy tunes as Food Glorious Food and Consider Yourself will stick in ones head for days. In addition Oliver! boasts both a top-notch cast (with one exception) and incredible set design that invokes both the theater roots and the ability of film in one piece. The only problem with Oliver! musical is the source material. The original play is pretty awful. You have large dance numbers one minute and prostitutes being beaten to death by a shillelagh the next. Talk about your tone changes. The cast does well with these problems but the second half of the film simply seems like a completely different movie. And it is not an improvement. (They fortunately cut out murderous Bill Sikes musical number but Prostitutes Nancy's ode to wife beating is still in there.) In addition while the cast is almost uniformly excellent, the lead of Oliver (Mark Lester) is simply too angelic to be believed. He comes across as a Nambla poster boy. He seems to be watching everyone around him with a worried bemusement as if he was in the audience with us. Of course the moral of Oliver! is that everyone belongs in their own station. Oliver is discovered to be a nephew of a rich family and so is reunited with his station, the Artful Dodger having poor parentage stays a thief, and the prostitute ends up dead. One last note many concerned parent groups today would demand an R rating for Oliver! Between the copious tobacco smoking and snorting by young children (Not to mention stealing) to the on camera prostitute killing parents with fuzzy memories may be shocked how adult this version really is G rating or not. |
