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The Sound of Music

1965 Directed by Robert Wise

The happiest sound in all the world!

Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.

Julie Andrews Christopher Plummer Eleanor Parker Richard Haydn Peggy Wood Charmian Carr Heather Menzies Nicholas Hammond Duane Chase Angela Cartwright Debbie Turner Kym Kareth Anna Lee Portia Nelson Ben Wright Daniel Truhitte Norma Varden Gilchrist Stuart Marni Nixon Evadne Baker Doris Lloyd

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Review by KasperL ★★★ 5

♫ pre-dict-able plot-lines and chea-sy ro-man-ces

o-ver-hyped clas-sics and mu-si-cal dan-ces

wild-ly an-noy-ing small chil-dren who sing

that will ne-ver be my fa-vo-rite thing ♫

... but, hey, it's hard to really, truly hate this.
Review by Houston ★★★★★ 5

Reading the negative reviews for this movie on Letterboxd just further prove to me that this site's community is a cynical, sad, broken Hellscape.
Review by lauren ★★★★★ 2

the hills are alive with the sound of hot, young christopher plummer
Review by Rida ★ 36

What a pain in the ass this film was. It's never fun to sit through three hours of utterly pedestrian music, over-the-top performances, and characters that are flatter than a goddamn pancake. Not to mention that silly climax involving Nazis that turned a light musical into a pseudo war film.

All of the above reminds me of a bad Bollywood movie. I certainly didn't expect to see an English version of a Yash Chopra movie (complete with shots of people dancing on hills with the mountains as a backdrop) when I began watching The Sound of Music. But that's exactly what I got.

Where should I even begin? The film looks gorgeous, thanks to the pristine blu-ray version, but it…
Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 1

Almost entirely visually organized by the Alps, the lines of the mountains...though rigid still a part of nature. They're a representation of the harmony that Maria brings out of her new family. Her love of the world is frivolous but pure, still Godly, the structure and sacrifice of religion unusually but crucially contrasted with the Captain's discipline, a micro version of the larger conflict between love and fascism.

Also just a ripping good musical, and Julie Andrews is a stone fox.
Review by SilentDawn ★★½ 8

This is on TV tonight.

I'd advise everyone to not turn on your TVs tonight.

Recent reviews

Review by Jack Donnell ★★★★★

The exact opposite of Only God Forgives.
Review by UnlovelySara ★★★½

"Charmian Carr, who played Liesl and was 21 at the time, wrote in her autobiography that she was attracted to the 35 year old Christopher Plummer, who played her father. Plummer admitted that the feeling was mutual, but insists that it didn't get beyond mere flirtation."

weeeell, how could one possibly blame her?¿??
Review by Paul Dylan ★★★★½

Lately most of my movie-watching time has been done with my kids. This week, for our usual Sunday evening "Dylan Family Movie Night," Eva (who is 9-years-old) chose The Sound of Music. This is at least the third time that I can think of that's she's chosen this movie for Family Movie Night.
Review by Becca Chien ★★★★★

the best movie ever. everyone else can go home.
Review by meghanlenz ★★★★★

A DEER. A DEER. A FEMALE DEER.
Review by preisman ★★½

I watched this for my wife, another of her favorites. I just did not like it. It is not a bad movie, just not one I care to see again.
Review by Paolo Kagaoan ★★★★★

F U C K R O L F
Review by Stefan Ellison ★★★★

For all of its sentiment and saccharine, there's something genuinely pleasing about "The Sound of Music" and how unashamed it is about its good natured themes. A lot of this credit goes to Robert Wise, who directs it with the proper amount of sincerity and respect for happy-go-lucky nun Maria and the von Trapp family. There is not a single cynical bone in the film's body and its easy to swallow sweetness add to the well paced three hours. The film's production takes full advantage of the Austrian locales with some incredible helicopter shots of the mountains and old buildings. And then, of course, there are the songs. Rather than bombast, Rodgers and Hammerstein went in a chirpy and sweet…
Review by Jake Destree ★★★★

This is the 3rd biggest movie of all time, adjusted for inflation. And let’s take a moment to recognize the huge range and talent of director ROBERT WISE. The same man brought us The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Haunting, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Andromeda Strain, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. And he edited Citizen Kane. And he was later the president of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

As for the film, it gets by on the heavily stacked quotient of classic songs. A classic, excellent movie that there is no reason to see again unless you are an old lady who likes old lady music.