i like most people enjoy a judy garland film i think she's brilliant
particularly like her musicals and in honesty i hadn't until recently
actually heard of the pirate the 1948 film she stars in with gene
kelly and once i kind of read the description
i thought i really need to see that and i can now confirm without any hesitation
or any doubt that this is a beautiful masterpiece of
a film so i'll read you the description from my
mdb to give you a better understanding there won't be any spoilers in this uh
review so it says on imdb a girl is engaged to the local rich man
but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate makoko a traveling
singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate
so to cut a long story short manuela played by judy garland
is supposed to marry somebody who she doesn't want to marry he's very
controlling and she has this fantasy about makoko the
pirate and then serafin comes along and who's her in the
guise of the pirate and it's very funny it's very fun
this the setting for me is what makes this brilliant it's really colossal we
have some beautiful architecture the areas where
they do performances are so intricate there's also a particular um
scene which i can't really i don't want to mention because i'll
spoil it but it's actually the scene is performed on a small stage
and it's quite wacky and outrageous and i thought that was brilliant
seraphin when he gets a chance to perform in front of everybody at
the key moment in the film you will know which bit i mean if you've
seen it if not once you see the film you will know exactly what i mean
i thought gene kelly's performance there was fantastic
i really thought he captivated the audience around him
in the in the scene and obviously me as a viewer
at home i found that really engaging i thought
i mean it's gene kelly i didn't expect anything less but i really enjoyed his
performance and there's not really a moan in this
that's boring it's directed by vincente minelli
i'm almost oh manelli i've just put two and two together and i
think i just got four um yes i think it's one of those films that
sounds good written down but you have to see it
to believe it it's a colossal masterpiece it's
really entertaining it's very funny manuela goes through
quite an emotional journey but there's not really any point where i think it's
sad i didn't shed it here i don't think but it is it's a very charismatic film
if a film itself can be charismatic that's
exactly what this film is and it has a rating of 7 out of 10 on imdb
which is obviously fantastic for imdb
and
i honestly have no complaints i'm trying to think and talk at the same time um
which is never good for me really um i was just googling liza minnelli to see
if
parents judy garland vincente minelli yes that
is her okay so it's actually directed by liza my nelly's father
so that's a nice little um easter egg on imdb
the pirate is brilliant i absolutely love it the music
is fantastic the cast obviously brilliant
standouts being garland and gene kelly gene kelly's performance as seraphin
is phenomenal and also is makoko absolutely brilliant garland her
character is very fascinating i really like her i like the journey she
goes on i like the outcome for her i have no complaints
it gets quite heated there's a little bit of action in there there's a lot of
comedy some great performances beautiful beautiful scenery there isn't
a moment in this film where you will be bored
and i promise that i put my hand on my heart
and promise that you will love the pirate
it might oh it's a toss-up between this and make me innocent louis for my
favorite judy garland film at the moment if you've seen either let me know your
thoughts but particularly let me know what you think of the pirate