Love Me Tonight (1932) :
Brief Review -
An amusing romantic musical from early 30s with couple of revolutionary musical numbers. Love Me Tonight is film that can be watched watched any night and yet be loved. In early 30s when Musicals had just begun to rule over the audience's hearts you get a romantic musical with decent story and cult musical numbers, what more can you ask for? Of course we had better and higher quality musicals in Hollywood but most of them were not made by 1932. Yes i agree it is nothing extraordinary or marvelous or something to be remembered but yes it's certainly an amusing flick that should be watched at least once. Moreover, its songs are phenomenal which gives another solid reason to watch this flick. A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess. You see, the same old formula but with little updation in the climax portion and believe me that's something to scream out, especially for female audience. The staging of "Isn't It Romantic?" which appears in the begining itself was revolutionary for its time, combining both singing and film editing, as the song is passed from one singer to another and the chain continues, all of whom are at different locales. This one song is enough to confirm you repeat viewing and then there is another awesome song 'Mimi'. However, the film and especially storytelling could been smarter, i mean even for its time. It has few cliches used a decade ago, couple of scenes looks dumb, actually the characters look dumb not the scenes and these things need not to be overlooked. Maurice and Jeannette's chemistry is fantastic in the film, mostly in the climax scenes. Rouben Mamoulian's direction is fine considering the low level of intelligence used in Musicals, after all entertainment doesn't need to be smart, you have thriller and noir genres for that.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest
An amusing romantic musical from early 30s with couple of revolutionary musical numbers. Love Me Tonight is film that can be watched watched any night and yet be loved. In early 30s when Musicals had just begun to rule over the audience's hearts you get a romantic musical with decent story and cult musical numbers, what more can you ask for? Of course we had better and higher quality musicals in Hollywood but most of them were not made by 1932. Yes i agree it is nothing extraordinary or marvelous or something to be remembered but yes it's certainly an amusing flick that should be watched at least once. Moreover, its songs are phenomenal which gives another solid reason to watch this flick. A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess. You see, the same old formula but with little updation in the climax portion and believe me that's something to scream out, especially for female audience. The staging of "Isn't It Romantic?" which appears in the begining itself was revolutionary for its time, combining both singing and film editing, as the song is passed from one singer to another and the chain continues, all of whom are at different locales. This one song is enough to confirm you repeat viewing and then there is another awesome song 'Mimi'. However, the film and especially storytelling could been smarter, i mean even for its time. It has few cliches used a decade ago, couple of scenes looks dumb, actually the characters look dumb not the scenes and these things need not to be overlooked. Maurice and Jeannette's chemistry is fantastic in the film, mostly in the climax scenes. Rouben Mamoulian's direction is fine considering the low level of intelligence used in Musicals, after all entertainment doesn't need to be smart, you have thriller and noir genres for that.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest