YEAH ! SONGS !...and...DANCE !

Sooo...I'm really not a huge musical fan...the closest thing to a musical I can get would be Mary Poppins...but wow...for some reason I liked Singing In the Rain...there was something about it that was really interesting. Although, I probably wouldn't watch it again unless I was sick in bed and had nothing better to do...

I've got to hand it to them, the dancing was pretty impressive, excluding the scene where Donald O'Connor does the "fall down" scene for just...too long.
I think it would have been better if there weren't so many song and dance numbers, it was as if every chance they got they were up and dancing and singing about their feelings, it just got a little repetitive after a while.

Something else...never seeing this movie before, except for the one single scene of Gene Kelly doing his little number in the rain and singing/dancing around, I had no idea that this movie WASN'T just about singing in the rain, really..it didn't have much of anything to do with singing in the rain. Funny, because all along I had this preconceived idea that the musical was all about singing in the rain.

It was really interesting to see the split between what we (the audience) sees and what the characters see. I loved and hated Jean Hagen's character, Lina. Hilarious. What a goof personalit, or...VOICE. I guess you could say that Debbie Reynolds, Kathy, plays the role of the most "real" character? Although part of me has to disagree a little, when we are first introduced to her character we see two different sides of her. Then we see Lina who is just nutty as hell. I guess she plays part of the "real" character because for a while before the talkies come out she didn't try to act different until they told her to...but then you get the scene from when she first met Gene Kelly and she didn't want anything to do with him until he was promoted.

The love scene, again , hilarious. Not able to see them as real people they have to use all the tech stuff for the movies. But...I guess it was a cute idea...I mean...what girl wouldn't want a boy to turn on a giant fan to blow fake wind in your hair while singing to you..right? Hah.


What's up with that whole scene with Rita Moreno playing the zip girl totally doing the whole, femme fetal thing ???
Did NOT see that coming, but I liked it.