All that I can say about Victor/Victoria is that it is great: a scream from start to finish. The restaurant scenes are classics.
Robert Preston is particularly good and Julie Andrews positively shines. Julie Andrews in particular is much maligned as an actress as to my mind, she has always given an honest performance. James Garner and Alex Karras bounce well off each other.
The musical numbers tell the story alongside the film, unlike a lot of musicals where the songs don't add anything to the story. Jazz Hot and Crazy World, two of her best songs in the movie, are brilliant. If Jazz Hot doesn't get your toes tapping, you just ain't got no rhythm.
Blake Edwards has a real sense of the ridiculously funny. The story is simple.
Victoria (Julie Andrews), a down on her luck opera singer, meets Carroll Todd (Robert Preston), also known as Toddy, an aging gay entertainer. Toddy transforms the desperate Victoria into Count Victor Grezhinski, a gay Polish Count who is disowned for being gay. Victor becomes an immediate success. Julie's transformation from woman to man is well done.
Slapstick moments are provided by Charles Bovin (Herb Tanney), the incompetent private D. Bovin obviously doesn't know when not to carry an umbrella but Tanney does know how to make the audience laugh.
John Rhys-Davies as Andre Cassell provides his usual high standard performance. In some ways, his character in this is reminiscent of his role in the original Indiana Jones movie.
Altogether a lot of fun and a great laugh.
Robert Preston is particularly good and Julie Andrews positively shines. Julie Andrews in particular is much maligned as an actress as to my mind, she has always given an honest performance. James Garner and Alex Karras bounce well off each other.
The musical numbers tell the story alongside the film, unlike a lot of musicals where the songs don't add anything to the story. Jazz Hot and Crazy World, two of her best songs in the movie, are brilliant. If Jazz Hot doesn't get your toes tapping, you just ain't got no rhythm.
Blake Edwards has a real sense of the ridiculously funny. The story is simple.
Victoria (Julie Andrews), a down on her luck opera singer, meets Carroll Todd (Robert Preston), also known as Toddy, an aging gay entertainer. Toddy transforms the desperate Victoria into Count Victor Grezhinski, a gay Polish Count who is disowned for being gay. Victor becomes an immediate success. Julie's transformation from woman to man is well done.
Slapstick moments are provided by Charles Bovin (Herb Tanney), the incompetent private D. Bovin obviously doesn't know when not to carry an umbrella but Tanney does know how to make the audience laugh.
John Rhys-Davies as Andre Cassell provides his usual high standard performance. In some ways, his character in this is reminiscent of his role in the original Indiana Jones movie.
Altogether a lot of fun and a great laugh.