{"id":2434,"date":"2021-03-09T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2021-02-05T14:13:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:13:27","slug":"movie-hello-dolly-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/09\/movie-hello-dolly-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Hello, Dolly! (1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hello,Hello, Dolly!<\/u><\/b>
\nYear: 1969
\nRating: G
\nLength: 146 minutes \/ 2.43 hours<\/p>\n

In WALL-E<\/i> (2008), the one surviving movie in this post-apocalyptic future was a VHS version of Hello, Dolly!<\/i> (1969). Does this mean Hello, Dolly!<\/i> is any good? Hardly. It\u2019s merely the only movie to survive. If anything, Hello, Dolly!<\/i> is your standard 1960s musical. There are many superior musicals from this decade, and it\u2019s clear that this one is on the tailing end of the fad. Sure, it has its moments, but it\u2019s so cookie-cutter in its plot that the only thing special about it is Barbra Streisand\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise that the few musical numbers that made it into WALL-E were some of the better ones in this movie. \u201cPut on Your Sunday Clothes\u201d is endlessly catchy, even if \u201cLove is Only Love\u201d is your standard love song. Of course, the title song, \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d works and is a bit of a bookend to the musical’s start with \u201cCall on Dolly.\u201d As I mentioned before, Streisand\u2019s performance in this musical is notable, likely due to her musical background. She definitely occupies the role, and I don\u2019t know if I can think of anyone else as Dolly.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the plot leaves something to be desired. I\u2019m not wild about the crotchety old man, Horace (Walter Matthau), being handed a marriage just because that\u2019s how musical comedies need to end. There was no chemistry or natural character growth that would have produced this result. And while the \u201cpoor yokel\u201d side-plot is humorous at times, it feels copied and pasted from elsewhere. I will say that the dance numbers are pretty good, but hardly up to the standard that I would expect from director Gene Kelly. Then again, he didn\u2019t have anything to do with the choreography, which likely explains the lackluster quality.<\/p>\n

A painfully average \u201860s musical, I give Hello, Dolly!<\/i> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Hello, Dolly! Year: 1969 Rating: G Length: 146 minutes \/ 2.43 hours In WALL-E (2008), the one surviving movie in this post-apocalyptic future was a VHS version of Hello, Dolly! (1969). Does this mean Hello, Dolly! is any good? Hardly. It\u2019s merely the only movie to survive. If anything, Hello, Dolly! is your standard 1960s musical. There are many superior musicals from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2],"tags":[209,2662,396,2661,13,213,8,2663,2664],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-movie","tag-209","tag-barbra-streisand","tag-gene-kelly","tag-hello-dolly","tag-movie","tag-musical","tag-review","tag-wall-e","tag-walter-matthau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}