Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

SnoopyStyle A baby in a cradle floats down the roaring Colorado River. She is found and raised to be the unsinkable Molly Brown (Debbie Reynolds). She's an illiterate tomboy in the rural mountains and pa is concerned about getting her married. She insists on going to Denver to find herself a rich husband. Money is paramount to her. She marries miner Johnny Brown who strikes it rich. She climbs in popularity but the couple separates. She decides to return home to Johnny taking the Titanic but even there, she refuses to sink.This is big, colorful, and really big. Debbie Reynolds is perfect in portraying the big personality. She is all gumption and enthusiasm. As for the Titanic, it's missing her claim to fame and I'm not sure why. Maybe, dealing with dying people is not quite the musical way. I wouldn't call any of the music catchy. It's big Broadway but none of it is memorable. The story can be extended but Debbie Reynolds always holds the screen without fail. Making her money obsessed is not the most appealing way to play her. My biggest complement is that Debbie Reynolds is undeniably Molly Brown.

vpcohb You must watch some movies twice to understand all that is present in a movie. The first time was good but not knowing the songs or the meaning behind the music made it seem long. BUT the second and later viewings fills in all that you miss on the first time. Please see twice or more and feel the emotions of this one.This is a very good movie for a musical, the acting and love story is also very good. Must watch till the end. By the way you would be surprised where some of these actors show up in later years.This is a semi true story of Molly Brown a real person of some fame. Hollywood has added music and a story to match the music. A young woman is bored with her poor rural life and dreams of making it rich in a big city. We follow her steps on the way to making all come true with love, laughs and music. There is a true meaning in this movie, do not watch for it, the point of the movie shows up at the end.

tedg The movie musical by this time was already breathing its last. Perhaps all genres go through a life cycle and eventually fade away, or so most observers believe. But I think there was a more fundamental shift at work, a shift in how we see film stories. Musicals demand that we enter a work that wavers between reality (in the story) and a stylized non-reality where a song-and-dance theatrical entertainment is presented. Since the 60s, we've been unwilling to shift realities without one of the explicit conventions that have evolved, some quite sophisticated.They tried something like one of these conventions by having an onstage "band" whenever Christmas and gang appeared.But there are other interesting things about this project. First, that it really is rooted in reality, more so than others of its ilk. At least Molly Brown did live, and her life was roughly as depicted. Second, there was another fold with reality: a celebrity scandal involving the "good" Debbie and the "bad" Liz, with Debbie fighting back (as a pudgy 32 year old).But there's another level that is lost today. The 60's in particular and the decades before as well were periods when the American social conscience was in a "populist" camp. Movies and books reflected this: the rich were either evil, or selfish, or blind or simply stupid while the real wisdom and joy and meaning of America was found in its "ordinary" people.Many were the dramas that reduced things as they are here: genuine but rough, simple people contrasted with the stodgy, sober unimaginative rich. That was before the American scene shifted. Most people now consider themselves middle class and don't mind being a bit pretentious consumption-wise. What was "simple" and "genuine" has been co-opted by their commercial abstractions in various worlds ("country" and "hiphop" for example).The model for "Molly" has now shifted to the explicitly dumb but well-intentioned and pure- hearted as in "Legally Blond."Once again, we have a Technicolor redheaded heroine. She's no Charisse and danced with a loping wide athletic stance that Gene Kelly would famously criticize. Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

ptb-8 I was moaning the other day about stock footage in crucial scenes in some MGM pix: The EXTRAORDINARY SEAMAN and THE LAST VOYAGE and then in the middle of this MOLLY BROWN extravaganza, well, there was more again!! In the title scene where Molly is on board - and then overboard- the Titanic..what do MGM use to show the ship pierced and then sink...25 seconds of black and white footage tinted sepia all lifted from the Fox 1953 version of TITANIC. Outrageous! And in a film with such other lavish appointments they skimp on the main scene! Just incredible. As a musical "Beverly Hillbillies" (which came first?) with continuous yelling in the first 4 reels and lots of "lil Abner' level punchy comedy this film is a lot of fun. Debbie looks like DOLLY and why not...it is all a Denver version of how Dolly looked was as well. Without the Levi (haha). But this damned stock footage at THE most crucial scene. I remember seeing it in 1964 and felt even as a 10 year old that they skimped on that scene because it was SO short. Well 40 years later now I realise why. Yes I agree with someone who said it would have been great casting to have seen Reynolds as Molly again in the James Cameron TITANIC given her role here. Yet another obvious disappointment and another missed opportunity. MOLLY BROWN is a lot of fun, my only reservations being Harve Presnell bellowing about Colorado and that infuriating crap footage. Yes it is half a musical too.