What is your favorite MOVIE musical?

[Writings]

Hello everyone, it's been a very long while since I've been on here, but now that I've returned I noticed that there were a couple "Favorite Musical" polls here on the Broadway Stage section. Having voted in both, I thought I would set up my own version of these polls, devoted to movie musicals!

I voted for Sweeney Todd. It just overwhelmed me the first time I saw it. It was pretty amazing to me how it combined so many genres into one film. I think that's the reason it got my vote, it was a bloody, frightening, dark, ironic, comical, musical good time! (Other favorites include Dreamgirls, Chicago and The King and I).

 

[peanutbutter12]

I have grown to hate musicals with deep, dark passion. Especially ones like Hairspray and Rent. One of the few newer ones I have come to enjoy very much though is Sweeny Todd. Even bought it on DVD. Also helps that I'm a Johnny Depp fan.

 

[Writings]

I have grown to hate musicals with deep, dark passion. Especially ones like Hairspray and Rent. One of the few newer ones I have come to enjoy very much though is Sweeny Todd. Even bought it on DVD. Also helps that I'm a Johnny Depp fan.

I have never been able to watch the movie-version of Rent all the way through; it's much too clunky and tedious in my opinion. While having never seen a stage production of the show, I think I can say that the movie version is just awful. Other more recent ones I thought were bad include The Producers and Phantom of the Opera - they were too straightforward, and that just doesn't work on-screen! I included Phantom of the Opera as a choice on the poll, however, because it seems to have the most fans out of those three "bad" movie-musicals.


However, I loved Hairspray! It was a fun time at the movies, at least to me and my friends. It was also a throwback, I thought, to the movie-musicals of long ago where people just broke out into loud and long song and dance without giving excuses for doing so (as in the "in-Roxie's-mind" idea in Chicago and the idea that most of the songs in Dreamgirls were actual performances within the movie).


*On a side-note, in no way do I dislike the movie incarnations of Chicago and Dreamgirls. In fact, I love them and consider them both all-time movie-musical favorites. I was just drawing a comparison between the way those two movies presented their songs, and the more traditional route Hairspray took.

 

[WhiteWillow]

The King and I.

 

[Mr. Timothy]

When we had a TV my family and I all enjoyed "The Sound of Music"

 

[faithchic05]

The Phantom of the opera

 

[liesje]

I voted Sound of Music...but I had a very hard time choosing between that and the Phantom of the Opera

 

[Cassie76]

Phantom of the Opera

 

[mangafan121]

I voted the wizard of oz!!! I love that movie so much!!!

 

[CelticGrace]

Definitely Phantom of the Opera, with Sweeney Todd and The Producers (original and remake tied together) as a very close second and third.

 

[sylk]

The Sound of Music. I love that movie musical...
could watch it all day long

 

[Inkachu]

You forgot "West Side Story"! That's one of my top 5.

 

[emilybeingemily]

Grease is my favorite.

 

[Inkachu]

I'm surprised nobody's voted for "Chicago" yet. That's another of my top 5.

I voted for "Phantom" btw

 

[Becca91]

I voted for Hairspray, I know it isn't a classic like The Wizard of Oz and Grease but I just really love it and could watch it over and over. Grease is a close second.

 

[Rhovanion]

The Sound of Music hands down. Was among the first movies I ever saw as a kid and I watched it religiously growing up. It was the most amazing thing when I lived in Salzburg for a wee while back in 2006, seeing all the film locations in person!

The Phantom of the Opera is my favorite musical of all time and while the movie was breathtaking, it was still lacking something. Gerard Butler will never be the Phantom for me (it'll always be Mikael Samuelsson).

 

[Skilletdude]

What? No Moulin Rouge?! Across the Universe gets listed and not Moulin Rouge!?! Across the Universe was one of the most visually great but boring musicals ever.

Anyway... I guess from this list, Sweeney Todd is my favorite. I wasn't really a fan of a number of the songs in it but the movie itself is pretty great. But Moulin Rouge is easily my all time favorite musical It's actually one of my favorite movies, period. Visually dazzling, imaginative, and the songs fit perfectly. Favorite scene? El Tango De Roxanne... I wish more musicals would be like that. Exciting/eccentric music and heavily stylized and imaginative rather than the typical Broadway/Musical style of music which I never really cared for.

 

[Zandy]

Hairspray fan!

 

[dunjunn]

That's hard. lol
I'll choose the Wizard of Oz.

 

[SparkyMaddie]

Poto!!!