#87 Singin' In The Rain

1952

Jean Hagen

Gene Kelly

Donald Oconnor

Debbie Reynolds (Center)

So this is it, the last of the terrible run of movies I had no interest in, Some of them threw up surprises and I actually liked them, others were not so enjoyable. Singin' in the rain is a musical, and to be honest, I cant stand musicals, so I wasn't looking forward to watching this at all. The first half isn't that musical like but the second half is one big sing song.

The Storyline

The movie is set in 1927, Don Lockwood (Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Hagen) are a famous on screen silent movie couple, the only problem is, Don knows this has only been set up for the media, but Lina doesn't understand that and thinks he really does love her. This is set around the time movies with sound were being invented, unfortunately for this pair, Lina has a shrill voice, she cant sing and she cant act. The movie company make their first ever movie with sound, and it is laughed out of the cinema due to Lina's incredibly bad performance . Don comes up with an idea to change the movie in to a musical and use Kathy Sleden (Reynolds) to voice over the parts played by Lina. In return for doing the voice over Kathy is promised a bigger role in the next movie, Lina has other ideas for Kathy's fate.

All in all its a story of a love triangle, and it all ends happily for 2 points of the triangle, the other point is left humiliated after she tries to screw over Kathy and the whole movie company. For a musical I didn't hate it,the first half of the movie had little singing in it and im glad it was only 103 minutes as the second half was all singing practically.

The Scores

Visual
6/10 - Some good singing and dancing as you would expect

Sound
5/10 - lots of musical singing, not really my cup of tea

Acting
6/10 - Very well acted, think that's what made it watchable for me.

Plot
5/10 - Nothing too brain taxing

Ending 
6/10 - Nice to see the stupid Lina get what she deserved.

Final Score

28/50

For a Sunday, hung over, It was ok just to lay an watch.

Total Movie Minutes So Far ~ 1705

Next up is Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975)

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Thanks, Luke.