I guess this is the best place to place this question...
Anyone seen "High School Musical"?
Um...yeah. It was a Disney Made-for-tv movie aired this year.
Cheesy plot, lyrics aren't great, the lip-synching is sometimes off, but after all that the energy of the music and the dance numbers are highly addicting.
It's the musical that you'll say "It's awful, but for some reason, I like it..."
I'm a huge fan of musicals. Favourites include...man...
My Fair Lady, Les Miserables (see the 10th Anniversary Concert...buy it on EBay if you can, I swear, it's worth it), Sound of Music, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, RENT, Chicago...
In terms of MOVIE versions, Chicago has to be marked as the the best MODERN one. It revitalized the concept..though I don't think RENT lived up to it so much.
Moulin Rouge was alright.
Classics are, most definitely, Wizard of Oz (I consider that a musical), Sound of Music, Annie (the first one), and Grease. I haven't been able to watch "Singing in the Rain" all the way through. Guys and Dolls was pretty good too.
I'm pretty familiar with most musicals.
And for a completely random movie which can give a good laugh:
The Pajama Game
It's an old movie that my mom picked up from the library. It's a musical movie, kind of a lame plot, but it's worth it to watch. And a perfect mock-movie. Meaning, you can have a riot making jokes about the lyrics, or the plot parts. They aren't bad. They are just funny cuz they're cheesy.