Fantastic old movie with fab sing along songs
A bit of a mess, but Louise dancing with the carnival man was the greatest!
Unless you adore musicals, you'll likely dislike 'Carousel' - like me.
I was incredulously bored all the way through, due to the incredibly thin premise being stretched out for 128 minutes. Aside from the famous "You'll Never Walk Alone", which they use twice, none of the many, many other performances are memorable or sing-a-long worthy.
It shows it's just a stage musical made into a film, focusing on the music ahead of the plot. I prefer my musicals having more substance to them. It should be story over songs, in my opinion.
There are a couple of things to praise, albeit minorly. Visually its outstanding, the colours used are lovely; as is most of the cinematography. The acting is absolutely fine, Gordon MacRae carries it but Shirley Jones is solid too.
Everything starts extremely intriguingly, with the afterlife setting. However, it barely scratches the surface with that due to the aforementioned issues. It also attempts a heartwarming conclusion which simply falls flat, given Billy does literally nothing to make himself likeable; he does the exact opposite in fact, as the film tries to OK domestic violence.
This storyline with better focus and writing, with additional depth to the second chance stuff, no musical constraints, shorter run time and you're on to a winner. Sadly, is this state, it is almost unwatchable - unless you are a lover of this genre.
Shout by M. RiveraBlockedParentSpoilers2016-12-31T09:09:07Z
I was very frustrated by this movie. The main character is a bit of a swindler who falls in love and elopes. After the wedding he's a deadbeat who doesn't work and who starts hitting his wife. When he finds out she's pregnant he wants a fresh start for them but decides to do it by robbing someone and ends up dying in the process. Heaven gives him one day to go down and fix things. And that's where things get worse. He doesn't fix anything! He watches his daughter for a bit but when he tries to talk to her he ends up hitting her too! Then his daughter and wife talk about how getting hit by him is more like getting kissed because it doesn't hurt since they know it was done with love. What a horrible message! And in the end all he ends up doing is whispering in her ear and telling her to believe the words of her graduation speech. He's a deadbeat and a loser all the way and he did nothing to help them at all! This movie ended up being nothing like what I was expecting.