Theodore Rex

Starring:Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau, Bud Cort, Stephen McHattie, George Newbern, Carol Kane, Richard Roundtree, Jack Riley (II), Peter Mackenzie, Joe Dallesandro, Tony T. Johnson, Susie Coelho, Peter Kwong, Robert Martin Robinson, Edith Diaz, Dee Booher, William Boyett, Marius Mazmanian, Noon Orsatti
Director: Jonathan R. Betuel
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Way Over-Rated, and Often VERY Unpleasant!.......2007-06-29

Yes, it is a nice Cinderella story, and Audrey plays a fine role.There is an excellent message about the ingrained Brit Class System circa 1910..And there are some nice costumes, mainly women's hats, at the Horse race..Add to this a few memorable songs..So what is the problem with this ? Mainly, the near- nauseating character of Higgins, an old fashioned snob and misogynist of the ugliest type, who we have to watch sneer and scold for the better part of two hours! Not pretty! True, Pickering is a nice counterpoint, and really a decent old chap, but Higgins is the main character, and to watch and listen to this old goat goes well beyond a pleasant way to spend time! The song and dance numbers are hardly even third rate. Any comparison with a 1940's-50's MGM musical puts this one to shame! No dancing to speak of, and very low production quality..Then again, this was Warner, not known for musicals!..And there is a claustrophic sense here that says , "How can I get away from this miserable phonetics teacher?" It's near impossible..I can think of at least 30 musicals far and away above this, not just MGM, but Fred and Ginger, and so forth..In fact, 3-stars may be too kind for this one, since it is way below the hype!..Also, check out the 1930's PYGMALION with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, and you can easily see how almost the entire movie (MY FAIR LADY) was completely taken from PYGMALION, including the sets and dialogue..About the only thing new is the songs, which are fun and amusing, but not really in the top tier of great musical tunes.

Is the Creator Responsible for His Creation?.......2007-06-12

I had not watched this marvelous movie for many years when I took the opportunity to watch it again. The movie is a little stiff in places, but that stiffness seemed, to me, to enhance the formality of English high society. Audrey Hepburn belies that stiffness with her free-spirited characterization of Eliza Doolittle. Eliza contrasts nicely with Henry Higgin's mother, played by veteran actor Gladys Cooper ("The Happiest Millionaire," "The Song of Bernadette," and "The List of Adrian Messenger"). Mrs. Higgins is quite proper and perfect in every situation. Henry, played by the incomparable Sir Rex Harrison, is disdainful and aloof. Henry believes he is the remote scientific observer who can categorize and stereotype everyone, and is not affected by his surroundings.

A problem arises when Henry Higgins bets Colonel Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White, "Ten Little Indians" (1965) and "In Search of the Castaways") that he could take anyone, such as Eliza Doolittle, and turn them into something like a lady's maid or a shop girl. Colonel Pickering takes Henry up on his bet, volunteering to finance the experiment.

Looking at the next part of this movie with five decades of life, I quickly saw the problem that Henry was getting into. Henry was taking a human life adjusted to a certain set of surroundings, modifying that life so that it no longer fit in, and was then prepared to cast that life adrift once he proved his point. Henry failed to see that he did anything wrong, and therein lies the irony and pathos of this movie. The question a first-time watcher asks is whether Henry will be able to grow up at last and realize that people require compassion and empathy and are more than science experiments.

In addition to a marvelous story, this movie boasts wonderful music and excellent sets. Though some of Audrey Hepburn's singing survived, Marni Nixon sang most of the music attributed to Hepburn. Nixon's singing was phenomenal and her singing voice is close enough to Hepburn's that it sounds as though Hepburn could be singing.

Other singing numbers contained extensive choreography on expansive sets. Two complexly choreographed songs that come to mind are "Get Me to the Church on Time" and the "Ascot Gavotte."

This movie featured an array of sets depicting street scenes and interior scenes. Though the street scenes were excellent, my favorite set in the movie has always been Henry Higgin's incredible library. I would love to have his library in my house, though duplicating that library would be incredibly expensive.

This movie won 20 awards, which includes eight Oscars. Rex Harrison won the Best Actor Oscar and the movie won the Best Picture Oscar, both highly coveted awards. Harrison won many other awards for this film, and "My Fair Lady" became the most awarded movie of 1965.

Of course, awards do not necessarily mean a film is either good or great. However, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn and Wilfrid Hyde-White have such incredible acting skills and such screen presence that they make this film a joy to watch. I was spell-bound as I watched Audrey Hepburn become Eliza Doolittle and capture the hearts of everyone in the movie. Rex Harrison was incredible as Henry Higgins. This movie was either Harrison's best, or one of his best.

The story is also captivating. Henry Higgins experiments with the life of a human being. What Henry Higgins failed to realize is that once he became involved with his subject, he lost his objectivity and learned compassion. Love can come from compassion. The only thing that surprised me in this viewing of the movie is that I previously had not realized how early in the movie that Eliza Doolittle had come to love Henry Higgins.

"My Fair Lady" is one of the best musicals of all time. The combination of story, acting, singing and sets is amazing. Fans of musicals and love stories will enjoy this movie, even on multiple viewings.

Enjoy!

My Fair Lady.......2007-05-12

I personally like classic movies compared to some of the movies out there now.

Does not work!.......2007-04-11

The DVD does not work in Ireland so it is absolutely useless!! I should have been made aware of this when I was purchasing the product. I would like to be refunded in full for the three DVDs I have purchased: My Fair Lady, Paris when it Sizzles and Breakfast at Tiffanys (purchased at the same time)
Also the packaging costs were not displayed until i had entered my credit card number and were much too expensive.
Overall i am extremely disappointed with my experience and I expect to be compensated for this.

Rating of My Fair Lady.......2007-04-10

This is one of the best musicals ever done. The DVD was excellent quality.

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My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , Stanley Holloway , Wilfrid Hyde-White , and Gladys Cooper
Director: George Cukor , and Suzie Galler
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Release Date: 2004-02-03

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Way Over-Rated, and Often VERY Unpleasant!.......2007-06-29

Is the Creator Responsible for His Creation?.......2007-06-12

My Fair Lady.......2007-05-12

I personally like classic movies compared to some of the movies out there now.

Does not work!.......2007-04-11

Rating of My Fair Lady.......2007-04-10

This is one of the best musicals ever done. The DVD was excellent quality.

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Wonderful Review

Theodore Rex
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Juliet Landau , Bud Cort , and Stephen McHattie
Director: Jonathan R. Betuel
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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ASIN: B000099T3L
Release Date: 2003-07-08

Description

A wise-cracking police officer is forced to team up with her new partner, a sixty-five million year-old talking Tyrannosaurus Rex! Hillarious adventures follow as this unlikely duo tries to save the planet Earth from extinction. Starring Whoopi Goldberg. Year: 1996 Director: Jonathan Betuel Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Juliet Landau

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Holy moley.......2007-06-10

Watching this film sober - and even under the influence - is like giving birth out of your ear while simultaneously having a stroke, getting a root canal, and walking in on your parents having sex. In your bed. And as you walk in on them, you step on a rake and it hits you in the face and drives a splinter into your eye.

Yet at the same time it triggers a visceral, masochistic response somewhere deep inside, and you can't help but take pleasure in mind-numbing attempt at a joke, every sudden idiotic plot twist, and every glimpse of Whoopi's gross spandexed rumpus.

A real treat.

Fecal Matter!.......2005-05-08

No wonder Whoopi wanted to dodge this career killer she gives a limp performance much like an actress working under the threat of a lawsuit. The effects are good though as well as one would expect for a 35 million dollar "direct to video" release...(To this day it is the most expensive movie made that has never played in a theater) I think Joel Shumacher aka "I killed Batman" could have done a better job if he were the director of this peice of bovine waste and that is saying a lot...aw screw it it would have been another reel of gay porn much like Batman Returns.......

Wonderful Review.......2002-08-06

If you saw the Dionosaur show that Henson did on TV, then you will enjoy this movie, and what's not to like about Whoopi, she makes anything bad good. So don't listen to the last reviewer, if you like Whoopi, buy this vhs, and I will look out for the DVD, as well. Whoopi you ROCK.

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On the street where you live

My Fair Lady [Region 2]
Starring: Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , Stanley Holloway , Wilfrid Hyde-White , and Gladys Cooper
Director: George Cukor
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On the street where you live.......2006-07-30

Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) who specializes in the English language makes a bet with Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White) that he can take someone who speaks with a lower-class language and by correcting the speech can pass off as upper-class or royalty. Overhearing this bet is a flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn); she wants to work a flower stand. But they will not take her unless she can speak more "genteel". Professor Higgins takes up the challenge.
Will he succeed?
What does her father (Stanley Holloway) thing finding that she moved in whit the two professors and did not want any clothes?

This is a musical version of the movie Pygmalion (1938), based on a play by George Bernard Shaw.

As people find that music and movies bring memories of the time in which they heard or viewed it. His movie has a meaning to me as I too was in love and found my self singing "On the street where you live." One of the strengths of the movie is that many of the songs instead of being classical and just stuffed into at odd times actually are songs that you would initiate in your life and they did so in the lives of the characters in the movie.

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Way Over-Rated, and Often VERY Unpleasant!.......2007-06-29

Is the Creator Responsible for His Creation?.......2007-06-12

My Fair Lady.......2007-05-12

I personally like classic movies compared to some of the movies out there now.

Does not work!.......2007-04-11

Rating of My Fair Lady.......2007-04-10

This is one of the best musicals ever done. The DVD was excellent quality.

Average customer rating:

Way Over-Rated, and Often VERY Unpleasant!
Is the Creator Responsible for His Creation?
My Fair Lady
Does not work!
Rating of My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady [Region 2]
Starring: Audrey Hepburn , Rex Harrison , Stanley Holloway , Wilfrid Hyde-White , and Gladys Cooper
Director: George Cukor
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Binding: DVD

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The King and I (50th Anniversary Edition)
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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
South Pacific (Collector's Edition)

ASIN: B00004CZEO

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Customer Reviews:

Way Over-Rated, and Often VERY Unpleasant!.......2007-06-29

Is the Creator Responsible for His Creation?.......2007-06-12

My Fair Lady.......2007-05-12

I personally like classic movies compared to some of the movies out there now.

Does not work!.......2007-04-11

Rating of My Fair Lady.......2007-04-10

This is one of the best musicals ever done. The DVD was excellent quality.

Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002)

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Charlie Rose with Anna Wintour; Edmund Morris; Dorothy Lichtenstein, Bonnie Clearwater & Jeff Koons (January 7, 2002)

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A dialogue with Anna Wintour, fashion icon and editor of Vogue, on the retirement of designer Yves Saint-Laurent. Also, Edmund Morris talks about his biography of former president Teddy Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. Then, a conversation about the late Roy Lichtenstein's art in two new exhibitions with his widow, Dorothy, director of MoCA Bonnie Clearwater, and artist Jeff Koons.

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