BUGSY MALONE
A gangster movie like no other.
This is a musical, gangster film... it is already a bizarre mixture, but the film makers really went all out to make this film different. The whole cast are children.
I knew all of this before watching it but really didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if I would like this or not. So when I saw this was on the TV, I thought I would give it a go. It actually worked really well.
The story is actually quite bad. Not a lot really happens throughout apart from two leaders of opposite gangs are fighting for the same patch. If this film was made normally, it would not have worked anywhere near as well.
One of the things that I like about this film is even though the whole cast is children, they are all made up as adults and act as if they are adults. Even their fake moustaches were really funny.
A lot of the songs were really catchy. There were a couple of songs that were not that go, but generally they were very good. When the children were singing, you could clearly see they were miming. It was not especially done well, but maybe this was dine on purpose. When they were singing, all of a sudden the kids had very mature voices. It was really funny.
Another thing that I thought was well done was the gun fights. They were all fighting and shooting tommy guns that were shooting pies and custard at everyone. But when they got shot it was as if they were dead. The cars were fantastic. They were the old style cars, but they were actually pedal cars. The funniest part was when they were peddling the cars around, you could hear car engines as if they were driving for real. A really good touch.
The cast couldn't act at all... this is the perfect example of children tend not to be good actors. Some of the time it felt like a big budget school play. Bad acting and comical dialogue execution. But even though the acting was bad, it made the film a lot better. The bad acting worked really well with the comedy side of the film.
The movie starred Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster & John Cassisi. The funniest character was Fat Sam played by John Cassisi. He was hilarious and was the star of the film, but acting wise I can see why Jodie Foster was the only actress to make it big after this. She was the best actress in the movie.
This is relatively short movie, but it is worth a watch. It is funny, weird and confusing as hell to watch.
I will give this film 6 out of 10.
"Someone once said, "If it was raining brains, Roxy Robinson wouldn't even get wet." Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you's me, he should've never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido's Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled."
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A gangster movie like no other.
This is a musical, gangster film... it is already a bizarre mixture, but the film makers really went all out to make this film different. The whole cast are children.
I knew all of this before watching it but really didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if I would like this or not. So when I saw this was on the TV, I thought I would give it a go. It actually worked really well.
The story is actually quite bad. Not a lot really happens throughout apart from two leaders of opposite gangs are fighting for the same patch. If this film was made normally, it would not have worked anywhere near as well.
One of the things that I like about this film is even though the whole cast is children, they are all made up as adults and act as if they are adults. Even their fake moustaches were really funny.
A lot of the songs were really catchy. There were a couple of songs that were not that go, but generally they were very good. When the children were singing, you could clearly see they were miming. It was not especially done well, but maybe this was dine on purpose. When they were singing, all of a sudden the kids had very mature voices. It was really funny.
Another thing that I thought was well done was the gun fights. They were all fighting and shooting tommy guns that were shooting pies and custard at everyone. But when they got shot it was as if they were dead. The cars were fantastic. They were the old style cars, but they were actually pedal cars. The funniest part was when they were peddling the cars around, you could hear car engines as if they were driving for real. A really good touch.
The cast couldn't act at all... this is the perfect example of children tend not to be good actors. Some of the time it felt like a big budget school play. Bad acting and comical dialogue execution. But even though the acting was bad, it made the film a lot better. The bad acting worked really well with the comedy side of the film.
The movie starred Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster & John Cassisi. The funniest character was Fat Sam played by John Cassisi. He was hilarious and was the star of the film, but acting wise I can see why Jodie Foster was the only actress to make it big after this. She was the best actress in the movie.
This is relatively short movie, but it is worth a watch. It is funny, weird and confusing as hell to watch.
I will give this film 6 out of 10.
"Someone once said, "If it was raining brains, Roxy Robinson wouldn't even get wet." Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you's me, he should've never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido's Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled."
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