Royal Wedding [VHS]
by Stanley Donen
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Actor: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lawford, Sarah ChurchillDirector: Stanley Donen
Cinematographer: Robert H. Planck
Editor: Albert Akst
Producer: Arthur Freed
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 1995-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)
VHS Movie Reviews of Royal Wedding [VHS]
Movie Review: Dancing On The Ceiling The Main High Point
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie features some of the most famous dance scenes by Fred Astaire, such as the one where he dances on the walls and ceiling.
That particularly dance is impressive because the special-effects made it look realistic. Kudos to the filmmakers for doing that in a film that is 55 years old. Astaire also did a clever number earlier with a hat rack and did two entertaining dances with Jane Powell.
The dancing was the only good thing in the film. Most of the story deals with romances between Powell and Peter Lawford and Astaire and Sarah Churchill. The latter look a little old for the normal young-romance type angles viewers are used to seeing in films. Facially, Fred looked like he had been ill. He just didn't look good. Powell looked fine but her soprano voice almost broke my TV tube. It was brutal.
Still, it's tough to totally knock any movie in which Astaire demonstrates his incredible dancing skills.
Movie Review: Royal Weddning
Summary: 1 Stars
The video works on only one DVD player, the one that is not in my classroom. It sticks at multiple places and of course at the part I want to show my classes. I use this in my Physics class and I never know if it is going to work or not. The return method I could not fiqure out. So I stuck with it and when I need it next year, I'll decide to buy another copy that hopefully might work.Movie Review: Fred Astaire deserved better
Summary: 3 Stars
A brother-sister dance team go to England to perform at the time of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. Both siblings are devoted to the act and claim to have no interest in romance, but (surprise!) they both find true love in London.
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as the dancers and he outshines her at every turn. Fred is always dazzlingly charismatic, while she's not in his league as a dancer and lacks his screen presence. Another odd casting choice is Winston Churchill's daughter and Maggie Smith-look-alike, Sarah as Fred's love interest; she spoils the movie because she has no visible talent or charm and there's no chemistry between them. The story is predictable and dull, with several forgettable vaudeville performances.
Only Fred's impeccable solo dances save the movie from being a total disaster; his famous coat rack dance and the amazing dance-on-the-walls-and-ceiling routine are terrific and well-worth seeing. The glamour and exquisite costumes we associate with a Fred Astaire musical are missing and the whole thing has a low-budget feel to it. For Fred's fans only.
Movie Review: Sappy but....
Summary: 3 Stars
The story is as sappy as one could hope for in a musical: a sister and brother song and dance team are performing in London when Elizabeth II gets married. But ignore the story. P.S. The royal wedding doesn't figure into it. Moreover, it could give a viewer diabetes.
Jane Powell and Fred Astaire make this film worth seeing. I've never been a fan of Astaire's. I knew he was one of the greatest American dancers ever, but he always looked like the perfect lounge lizard, with his slicked back, patent leather hair and the tophat and tails. He isn't that at all in this movie.
There are three dance numbers worth seeing here: (1) The best by far is Powell and Astaire's on stage duet of "How Could You Believe Me..." (2) Astaire's "I Lost My Hat in Haiti" (3) Astaire's marvelous and famous dance on the walls and ceiling of his hotel room. In none of these is Astaire in his usual film attire.
The rest of the cast I could do without, Churchill's daughter's tepid and unbelievable romance with Astaire and Peter Lawford's nasal courting of Powell. Ugh. There's spme nice color film of the royal weddng coaches going through the streets of London, but stay for the three dances.
Movie Review: cute film, great dancing
Summary: 5 Stars
we purchased a few 'wedding' themed films as a group activity for the bridesmaids, this was a particularly cute film. beautiful dancing, classic happy ending...everything you need for a good girls night in.
Summary of Royal Wedding [VHS]
Fred Astaire dances on the ceiling in this 1951 Alan Jay Lerner musical for MGM, directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). The appealing story finds Astaire as part of a brother-and-sister act (along with Jane Powell) that travels to London at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's wedding. Astaire and Powell each find romances that threaten to break up the act, but that's mostly fun window dressing in a movie better known for some truly creative sequences made vivid by Donen, including Astaire's famous dance with a hat rack and his duet with Powell, "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life)?" --Tom KeoghWedding Bells Video
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