Singin' in the Rain

Now it is time for a review of a classic movie. I just can't wait to start. So why am I waiting? Time to start.

The movie starts in the 1920s with Two Hollywood movie stars named Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) and there friend Cosmo Brown (Donald O'Connor) going to see there latest silent film The Royal Rascal. After the film on the way to a party Don is attacked by his fans. So he jumps into a car owned by a lady named Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). Kathy drops Don off at the party. At the party a new invention is revealed it is...a movie with talking in it. After the demonstration is done they have some cake but a dancer pops out of the cake and other entertainers come in as well. One of them is Kathy. After the performance is done Kathy gets angry at Don and throws a pie at him. But it hits Lina instead. Three weeks later Don has been searching for Kathy with no success. Cosmo sings the song "Make em Laugh" and then Don and Lina start making a new movie but the head of the studio announces that he wants it to be a talking picture. But just one problem; Lina has a really squeaky voice.


To celebrate Talking pictures they sing the song "Beautiful Girls". Now the Song itself is pretty good but halfway through it turns into a fashion show for some reason. Anyway one of the background dancers in "Beautiful Girls" turns out to be Kathy. So Don tells Kathy that he is in love with her and they sing a song about it. The next day Don and Cosmo are at a speech therapist being given impossible tongue twisters. Then they randomly sing the song "Moses Supposes". After that...insanely fun musical number...the filming of the talking picture starts. But they are having some trouble finding how to use the microphone efficiently. After the filming at the premier the talking picture is a disaster because the audio is out of sync with the movie. That night Cosmo, Don and Kathy come up with a plan to fix the movie before it is shown at other theaters. They will make it a musical. To celebrate they sing the song "Good morning" but there is still the issue of Linas squeaky voice. So they come up with the idea of having Kathy dubbing over Lina. So Don goes home and on the way sings "Singin' in the Rain". This song is amazing not only are the dance moves impressive but just imagine how hard it is to do a song and dance number soaking wet in fake rain.


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They dub over Lina but she finds out and is really angry. It also doesn't help that they are removing her name from the credits and giving Kathy all the credit. So Lina threatens to sue the company if they make her go as uncredited. The head of the company agrees to give her all the credit. The premier of the fixed version of the movie  is a success. The audience even asks Lina to preform "Singin' in the Rain". So they have Lina lip sync and Kathy sing behind the certain. But Don and Cosmo reveal  that Kathy is the real singer and make her famous. Don and Kathy get married and live happily ever after. The End...wait, what exactly happened to Lina? Did she vanish into obscurity? Did she get someone else to dub her over? What happened? Oh whatever. The End.



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This is a great movie. The dancing and songs are great. It has really great costume design as well. It also has a really good sense of comedy. The Only problem I could find is that a lot of the musical numbers come out of nowhere. This is a very classic movie you should see it if you haven't. I will be reviewing The Dark Crystal next.

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