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West Side Story (1961)
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The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, the passionate ballads, the moody sets, colorful support from Rita Moreno, and the sheer accomplishment of Hollywood talent and technology producing...
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West Side Story Movie Review by Zara  (3/10/2007) |
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So it's a melodramatic musical that follows along the storyline of Romeo and Juliet. So what. The music is sharp, the characters are worth following and the story, while familiar, needs to get pointed out. Immigrants coming into our country and what they go through, so brilliantly displayed in the key song in this movie,...
(complete West Side Story review by Zara)
| West Side Story Movie Review by Thom (5/4/2008) |
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Alas, it has fallen to me to balance the scales once again. I saw West Side Story for the first time tonight... tonight... and it was, overall, a true film tragedy with the majority of the entertainment coming from unintentional humor.
For those that don't know - I didn't before I watched it - West Side Story is Romeo and...
(complete West Side Story review by Thom)
| West Side Story Movie Review by Jarrod (11/19/2007) |
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'West Side Story' is an exuberant, ingeniously-choreographed musical retelling of Romeo and Juliet, with Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the ill-fated lovers, who are associated with different warring street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. The Sharks are Puerto Rican, led by Bernardo (George Chakiris). Wood is his...
(complete West Side Story review by Jarrod)
So Natalie Wood doesn't sing, so what. Unlike Audrey Hepburn in a certain 'loverly' movie, Wood sells us on Maria so well that we believe it is her voice and that is the ultimate accomplishement for a dubbed role.
This story follows gangs in a Romeo and Juliet setting where Maria and Tony are being kept from loving one...
(complete West Side Story review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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