Ginger Snaps

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Like Carrie before it, Ginger Snaps uses horror-movie conventions as an inspired metaphor for puberty. When beautiful but reclusive goth teenager Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is attacked by a monstrous wolf on the eve of her first period, her body starts changing in a big way, as do her suddenly lusty, feral appetites. Director John Fawcett masterfully balances the expectations of teen horror exploitation (blood, bodies, sex, smart dialogue, and good old-fashioned monster-movie scares) with clever black humor and tender sisterly solidarity. Only devoted sister Brigitte (gloomy Emily Perkins) knows the truth, and even as Ginger's abrupt transformation threatens their once unbreakable friendship, bonds of blood and love keep them together: Brigitte disposes of Ginger's victims while searching for a cure. Mimi Rogers costars as their dotty but unexpectedly sensitive mom, ready to sacrifice all to protect her daughter. Blood and blood ties have never been more evocative. --Sean Axmaker

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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.......2007-07-24

O.K. I'm sitting up in the middle of the night, can't sleep, and bored. All of the sudden this movie comes on T.V.(I.F.C. maybe, can't be sure). I'm willing to give ANY horror movie a chance, but at first, I wasn't into it. A werewolf movie about teenagers, that's two strikes automatically in my book. After the first 15 min. of the movie I was completely sold!!
The movie starts off with the aftermath of a dog mauling, then wastes no time in introducing the main characters GINGER(KATHRINE ISABELLE) and BRIGITTE(EMILY PERKINS). GINGER and BRIGITTE are two sisters(seperated by about 9 months) who are social misfits. They are loners, obsessed with death, and have made a packed to commit suicide when BRIGITTE(the younger) turns 16(Out by 16 or dead in the scene, but together forever). After the introduction of the sisters, we are treated to a very disurbing and morbid title sequence consisting of 'death scenes' that the sisters are photogrphing for a school project. The scenes are accompanied with very emotive music consisting of electronica mixed with a haunting violin. this is the "hook" that keeps you watching, and it is VERY sucsessful.
As the movie progresses, the girls have a run in with the 'popular' girl at school, and decide to take some revenge on her. they go out one night to kidnapp her dog, and while out GINGER starts her period. A split second later, she is attacked by "the Beast of Baily Downs"(werewolf). this is a very good sequence!! The one flaw with the movie is the werewolf, it doesn't look very authentic. after the attack, GINGER starts to have very bizarre mood swings, and takes a very sudden interest in boys. In addition, she starts to show signs of transformation, and in a panic, BRIGETTE finds help in the form of the local drug-dealer SAM(KRIS LEMCHE).One of the scenes in this movie really stands out, but it's very simple. It involves SAM and BRIDETTE in a closet; without giving anything away, the scene cuts to dark(as the door is shut) and all you hear is BRIDETTE franticly breathing. simple, but very effective!
GINGER SNAPS is a very well thought out and well acted movie. The only noticeable actress in the movie is MIMI ROGERS who plays the sisters dingy, but supportive mother. the rest of the cast are relatively unknown. There are moments of 'black humor' as well as suspence and gore in the right places that compliment the movie perfectly. It wasn't until the end of the movie that I realized it was ALL just a metaphor for female adolecence!! witch is why the end of the movie, although somber, is fitting. My biggest complaint is with the DVD. there is nothing!! and I mean NOTHING!! You get the full-screen version and that's it!! There is another version with the wide-screen with all kinds of extras floating around but it is hard to come by. Overall, this is a great and unique film that fans of 'monsters' SHOULD check out!!!!

Growing Pains..........2007-07-18

The Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), are social outcasts. Considered weirdos at their highschool, their deep relationship w/ each other is pretty much all they have. They live in a typical sub-division, w/ it's endless rows of non-descript houses. The girls don't seem to be bothered by their isolation or separation from the "normal" (aka: dull) folks around them. In fact, The Fitzgerald's are the only interesting people in their entire town! They have a romanticized view of death, and a jet-black sense of humor about it. Their school film project is a bloody (literally) riot! One night, Ginger and Brigitte are attacked by a lycanthrope, and Ginger is badly mauled on the very night she starts her first period. Soon, she begins to change- growing claws, sprouting hair in odd places, and sporting a tail! Now, not all of this can be attributed to Ginger's recent menstruating madness. Most of all, Ginger's personality undergoes a bizarre change. She becomes increasingly agressive, hostile, and downright psychotic, causing Brigitte to seek help from the local drugdealer (Kris Lemche). Between the two of them, they come up w/ a possible solution, but it could prove to be just as bad as Ginger's murderous state! I love this movie! Through all of the horror, gore, death, darkness, etc., the bond between the Fitzgerald's holds true. Brigitte is willing to risk anything to save her sister, even her own life. Emily Perkins is an amazing actress. Katherine Isabelle is great as well. Mimi Rogers portrays the girls' oblivious mum w/ humor and perfectly empty-headed facial expressions. GS is a movie w/ depth and heart within its impaled and oozing ribcage. It's also a fantastic werewolf movie! Highly recommended...

Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made.......2007-07-03

Let me begin by saying that Im a huge fan of the horror genre. I have read the foundational works of H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker. I have seen many of the werewolf movies like Howling I & II, American Werewolf in London, Dog Soldiers, Beast of Gauverdan, but none, NONE have come close to the pathos and sheer characterization that Ginger Snaps has. Two girls who are inseparable, struggle with becoming women and undergoing their first menstrual development into womanhood. Both are fascinated with death and live typical ansgsty suburban lives. Both experience first hand the absolute horror of becoming werewolves. Plainly said, this movie takes the metaphor of growing up and turns it upside down. Like Joss Whedon's Buffy, these girls have to confront what it is to be female and what it means to be an outsider.

After renting this movie I have now purchased all 3 of the Ginger Snaps movies. While the second two dont achieve the magnificence of the first, they are worthy of the title (the 3rd is actually a prelude that tells the story set in the 19th century). I highly, highly recommend these movies to enthusiasts of the horror, werewolf and supernatural genre!

A movie worth sinking your teeth into!.......2007-06-01

I haven't really come across any really good werewolf movies since The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, and more recently The Brotherhood of the Wolf and Dog Soldiers. Ginger Snaps was a pleasant surprise in its ability to entertain with the story of two sisters, Brigitte and Ginger being the main players. The two siblings are considered weird by the rest of their peers and share a close bond with each other.Things change when Ginger is bitten one fateful night setting the stage for Ginger's transformation into a werewolf, and complicating life for Brigitte whose sense of loyalty to her sister makes her cover Ginger's tracks and enlist the help of a guy, Sam to help save her sister.
Its fast-paced, and thrilling with scares thrown in for good measure. A competent addition to the werewolf horror genre.

For a werewolf movie i loved it!.......2007-05-13

Most werewolf movies i see are cheesy. For a B-movie this movie had a good storyline. The characters were good. Movie cam fast, in good quality.

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Werewolf Among The Sheep...
Hmmm. Again im the opposite of everyone else..
I can't be like this!
Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed
"They're not superheroes, Ghost."

Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed
Starring: Emily Perkins , Tatiana Maslany , Eric Johnson , Janet Kidder , and Brendan Fletcher
Director: Brett Sullivan
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ASIN: B0001EFV7M
Release Date: 2004-04-13

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Brigitte is an addict. After mixing blood with her late sister Ginger in an attempt to lean more about the condition, she has been infected with "the curse". Each day the curse in her grows stronger and she must increase her dosage of injections. When she is found laying face down in the snow after a near-escape from another beast, she is thrown in drug rehabilitation-locked behind doors without her life-saving antidote.

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Running Time 93 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Werewolf Among The Sheep..........2007-08-05

Emily Perkins is back as Brigitte, in the full throes of her latent lycanthropy! She must keep injecting her precious monk's hood serum, in order to keep her vulpine tendencies at bay. Unfortunately, Brigitte is being pursued by another werewolf who wants to be more than friends! Brigitte witnesses a young man being shredded by her stalker and flees, only to wind up in a drug rehab facility! Now she must get her "drug" back before her inner-wolf takes over completely! Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is now a spectral visitor, much like Griffin Dunn's character in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. GS2 is just as bitingly dark and humorous as the original, w/ an excellent send-up of the whole rehabilitation center, including a head-counselor who insists she knows exactly what Brigitte is going through, and an orderly who trades drugs for sex w/ the patients! Also, the character of Ghost (Tatiana Maslany) is a young girl w/ a serious inability to comprehend reality! To her, the entire universe is a comic book, and she is the star! Ghost is an interesting and disturbed child. She might even be deadly! Can she help Brigitte to get out of the hospital before the hairy stuff begins? Nice twists and shocking turns in this one...

Hmmm. Again im the opposite of everyone else.........2007-03-30

Okay, Ginger Snaps one has become one of my all time favorite horror films. I loved the first one,but I dont understand how people can say the sequel is just as good as the first. I had some problems with this movie. First, there were some plot holes actually there was alot of plot holes (who the hell was the wolf chasing her? Was it Sam from the first Ginger Snaps?). But my biggest problem was, im not even sure.It was boring and not that interesting.We dont even get to see Bridgette cause mayhem as a wolf.Ghost is really annoying to watch in the film and well i just didnt like this one. I dont understand what people loved aboput this film.The only thing that kept me interested was the fact that its Bridgett and actually Ginger Snaps.I love the sisters characters.But this film just wasnt all that good at all. I still yet have to watch "The Beginning",and since its much more expensive hopefully its better.

I can't be like this!.......2007-01-06

This is one of the only movies (along with "Final Destination 2") where the sequel was just as good as the original. "Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed" is an awesome film for anyone interested in the occult, or anyone just looking for an original and great film. You can watch this one without seeing "Ginger Snaps," because what happened in the first film is explained in this one, but I sugest watching "Ginger Snaps" first because you will be introduced to Ginger (my favorite!!) and you will know more about the sisters and the plot. The only let down of this movie is that there isn't enough Ginger, which is understandable seeing that she died in the first film. Overall, this as an AMAZING film and in my eyes, it's just as good as the first. BUY IT!!!

Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed.......2006-07-29

I loved this flick!It is all a sequel should be, a continuation of the original idea, not simply a re-hash of the plot from the first. Emily Perkins is gorgeous----even in the make-up characterizing her slow transformation into what Ginger became in the first flick. Ghost is a great addition, and of course, the beautiful Katarine Isabelle as the snotty Ginger, this time playing the part of Bridgette's unseen concience, (or lack there of). I think it's a terrific little movie! A slew of dead bodies, 15 gallons of blood, one "ghost", one "Ghost", heavy plot twist, Laundry room Fu, Werewolf Fu, Shotgun Fu, 4 STARS!

"They're not superheroes, Ghost.".......2006-05-27

This is the sequel to the cult favorite Ginger Snaps, and picks up the story with Brigitte (Emily Perkins), living in a seedy motel, after killing her werewolf sister and the destruction her family. Now Wolf's Bane injections are all that are keeping her from her own transformation and another werewolf that is biding its time until it can mate haunts her. A sudden confrontation throws Brigitte out on the street right after an injection and she is taken for an addict and placed in an eerie clinic that has more than an accidental resemblance to One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Trapped without the Wolf's Bane, the change draws ever nearer. Her only source is a guard (Eric Johnson) who trades the inmates drugs for sex. And her only friend is Ghost a young girl (Tatiana Maslany) of dubious sanity. When Ghost manages to help Brigitte escape the level of horror rapidly escalates as Brigitte must deal with humans who are every bit as depraved as the creature that is hunting her.

Ginger Snaps: Released lacks the twisted humor of the original film. Instead, it presents a bleak and edgy vision that never relents. Brigitte struggles to remain human in a world where being human doesn't amount to much. In many ways, the werewolf is saner than its victims, living true to its nature instead of making any pretensions at normalcy. This is a scary film because the viewer never really knows who is the monster and who is the victim.

Brett Sullivan replicates the film style of the original, only even darker. Odd angles and scene setting that is deliberately amateurish. There's no attempt at glitz here. The wolves are ugly, malformed creatures, and even the characters have a gritty surface. The film lacks the power of Ginger Snaps, with its sudden about face from sarcastic comedy to tragic horror, but it is still a striking effort at reinventing the horror genre as something genuinely horrible. Be warned, this film will make a lot more sense if you've checked out the original.

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Why Did So Many People Love This Film So Much?
Ginger and Bridgette go back in time..okay not really
(3.5 stars)The Dark Sisters of the warewolf curse, was great, but should've worked on the ending
Terrible Beauty: Ginger Snaps Back
could have been better

Ginger Snaps Back - The Beginning
Starring: Katharine Isabelle , Emily Perkins , Nathaniel Arcand , JR Bourne , and Hugh Dillon
Director: Grant Harvey
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ASIN: B0002I84DK
Release Date: 2004-09-07

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Why Did So Many People Love This Film So Much?.......2007-06-03

Okay,im gonna get straight to my tagline for this.The first original GINGER SNAPS is definitely the only good one off the trilogy.GINGER SNAPS BACK UNLEASED I thought was pretty weak and weird.GINGER SNAPS THE BEGINNING is just very odd and doesnt really make up with logic.Obviously this isnt Ginger and Bridgett from the other 2 films but they just happen to have the same name,look exactly the same,and bottom line its just a very odd approach to the series.I dont really understand why they would take the series this way.Its pretty bizarre.Other than that,the werewolves look the best in this one of the three films,and the storyline is pretty solid.I guess I would like this movie if I never saw the very first Ginger Snaps.I kinda like it,but in my opinion its not Ginger Snaps.

Ginger and Bridgette go back in time..okay not really.......2007-05-27

I, like most Ginger Snaps fans, was confused about just what this movie was about. It takes place before the events of the first two movies, but is not a prequel. In fact...its not even the same Ginger and Bridgette...too strange. But...actually..I liked it. After I got over the oddity of it, and began to look at it more as a stand alone film. Personally, this has become my favorite of the trilogy.

(3.5 stars)The Dark Sisters of the warewolf curse, was great, but should've worked on the ending.......2006-12-11

This movie was very interesting, but why did the sister kill the indian guy? And why did the 2 bad guys just drop their guns and run, and almost every horror, characters always trip and the killer gets them? But, a good plot, could've been better. But we don't e3ven get to see how Ginger killed the indian boy. Not scary, but good to watch. Some parts were kinda gross, like the dreams the sisters get and how the warewolves literally teared those guys apart.

Terrible Beauty: Ginger Snaps Back.......2006-12-09

This film's predecessor,"Ginger Snaps 2--Unleashed," was a competent but uninspired effort: a typical sequel. In contrast, "Ginger Snaps Back" is a significant film--but hardly a sequel at all.
The first two "Ginger Snaps" installments took place in contemporary Canada, mainly in suburbs and city; but "Ginger Snaps Back" is set in the Canadian frontier wilderness of nearly 200 years ago. Furthermore, in the earlier films (particularly the first) the two sisters Brigitte and Ginger share a complex relationship--loving but mutually antagonistic: Ginger's cynical death wish keeps her at odds with Brigitte who would stay alive (and human!) at any cost. In "Ginger Snaps Back," however, the girls have been simplified: they've become fairy tale orphans wandering through a monster-infested forest.
Early on in the film, the sisters find shelter in a militaristic fort/outpost run by some very hard guys--misfit toughs who resemble ogres just waiting for victims to approach their lonely castle! Significantly, it's in this dubious refuge that Ginger is infected with lycanthropy. Thus with monsters lurking outside the gates as well as within, the film plunges toward a fiery but despairing climax.
Overall, "Ginger Snaps Back" conveys a thrilling atmosphere of folklore and legends--an ancient eeriness more easily felt than described. Even the film's snow-covered forests radiate a sense of centuries-old Indian myths; appropriately, the film's Indian characters, including a larger-than-life hunter/warrior, identify the werewolves with the wendigo.
As a work of folklore or fairy tale, "Ginger Snaps Back" tends to be less verbal, but more visionary than the preceding films in this trilogy. Startling, beautiful images abound in this movie. Just one example: lovely Ginger in her black hooded cloak, with vamp fangs and raptor claws, flinging open the gates of the fort to admit the besieging werewolves. As the creatures surge forward and around her, Ginger stands as an icon of demonic ecstasy--comparable to the robot doppelganger in Fritz Lang's great "Metropolis"! Of course, that comparison alone should indicate the imaginative power flowing through "Ginger Snaps Back."

could have been better.......2006-04-27

Had promise but was a little long with no action and not enought werewolf activity. Too many flash backs and flash forwards. The best character and the most interesting was the Indian man, but he gets killed and the movie lost all excitement for me. The dark haired girl is annoying.

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Great movie, bad edition
Snappy acting

Ginger Snaps
Starring: Peter Keleghan , Mimi Rogers , Emily Perkins , John Bourgeois , and Katharine Isabelle
Director: John Fawcett
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
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ASIN: B000A2X3U2
Release Date: 2005-08-22

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Great movie, bad edition.......2007-08-29

The is one of the best werewolf movies I have seen. But if you want widescreen and special features you have to find a copy of the Canadian release. Which sellers on Amazon offer used copies of. This edition has a 4:3 version of the movie and no real special features.

Snappy acting.......2005-12-13

A couple of sisters with vivid imagination are misunderstood. One gets bit by a "you know what" and the fun begins. Naturedly this is mistaken for a different type of change in life.

All the elements are there:
Caring (haven't got a clue) parents.
Blond with nasty attitude antagonist.
Drug dealer that does werewolf studies on the side.
Lots of neighbors with tasty pets.
Occasional gratuitous sex scene (the camera breaks away before the sweaty parts.)
You get the idea.

Will a cure be found and they all live happily ever after or is it curtains for the victims(s)?

The movie does have its unique way of mixing the standard elements to come out with the average "nipper" story. The only social redeeming value is the sisters' fidelity.

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The naughty, gaudy, bawdy, tawdry 42nd Street--with Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression-lifting numbers!!!
Great film, poor extras
"WHAT A MOVIE ! "
DICK POWELL AND RUBY KEELER!!
Nostalgia at its best, with great songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin

42nd Street (Snap Case)
Starring: Warner Baxter , Bebe Daniels , George Brent , Ruby Keeler , and Guy Kibbee
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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ASIN: B00004TZRW
Release Date: 2000-09-19

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Set during the depression, this is the granddaddy of backstage musicals in which the understudy finally gets a chance to shine. It may seem a little cliché now, but in 1933 this was hot stuff. All that behind-the-scenes atmosphere feels very genuine, and the script is more acerbic than you might expect.

A sickly Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) puts his all into what may be his last show, only to face a disaster when leading lady Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) sprains her ankle. Thank heavens for ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler), who steps in at the last minute. The vivacious soundtrack includes "Shuffle off to Buffalo," and the still-catchy title tune. Best of all are those extravagant, kaleidoscopic dance numbers by Busby Berkeley, then in his prime. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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The naughty, gaudy, bawdy, tawdry 42nd Street--with Busby Berkeley's sensational Depression-lifting numbers!!!.......2007-05-18

42nd Street remains of the great classic musicals to this day. As Amazon correctly notes, this movie was blazing hot stuff at the time it was released; but the storyline makes this movie great entertainment even in these times. The plot moves along at a good pace and the action holds your attention rather well. I enjoyed it and I can easily tell you why.

The movie begins with a new stage show about to be cast by director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) because his bosses Jones and Barry think they can squeeze out another hit show despite the Great Depression putting a damper on everyone's bank accounts. Julian assembles his team of troupers including Bebe Daniels as the huge Broadway star Dorothy Brock; Ruby Keeler playing Peggy Sawyer, the chorus girl who just barely makes it into the show and actor Billy Lawler who is played very ably by Dick Powell. You should also look for Ginger Rogers in an early screen appearance as chorus line girl "Anytime" Annie and Guy Kibbee plays Abner Dillon, the wealthy old man who is funding the show on the condition that Dorothy Brock, his love interest, stars in the show.

Julian begins to run his troupe to death and it seems he never is satisfied with their work; to add some drama to his role Julian is under doctor's orders to abstain from theater work for health reasons. Julian, however, goes ahead and runs the show as the director anyway. Dorothy Brock also begins to encounter trouble as stuffy old man Abner Dillon wants more and more romantic time with her; but what Dorothy truly wants is to spend time with the real love of her life, Pat Denning (George Brent). Ruby tries to hang in during Julian's grueling rehearsals; she almost doesn't make it but she ultimately survives the torture.

Of course, despite the real movie--which consists of the song and dance numbers--you get a fair amount of suspense to hold your attention. Will Dorothy stay true to Abner so that her career can go forward to even new heights? Will Dorothy go back to Pat Denning, her true love, instead? What happens when for unforeseen circumstances develop and Peggy Sawyer must perform the lead in the show--with a mere five hours advance notice? Can Peggy pull that off? Can Julian direct the show without losing his health altogether? Watch the film and find out as you enjoy it--no spoilers here, folks! SMILE

Then there are the song and dance numbers. I loved all of them. The musical arrangements by Harry Warren glisten as true gold ever could. You get a great duet for "I'm Young And Healthy;" and there's the classic "Shuffle Off To Buffalo." Of course we can't forget the show stopping "42nd Street" either. Excellent! The choreography really shines during these musical numbers with great aerial views of the cast on stage and the dancing couldn't be better. Great!

The DVD comes with a few extras; and they also were fascinating to watch. I liked the segment about Harry Warren with him playing piano while his friends sing along; and the featurette entitled A Trip Through A Hollywood Studio fascinates me, too. The Hollywood newsreel is a rare treat!

Overall, fans of musicals from the Great Depression era and the golden age of Hollywood will cherish this classic musical. The actors work so hard; and it shows in their highly convincing acting. People who enjoy the music of Harry Warren will be delighted with this movie; and the Busby Berkeley dance numbers reflect his genius as they always did.

May you get this movie and enjoy it as much as I did! Great job, everyone!!!

Great film, poor extras .......2007-02-03

There have been so many excellent reviews of this landmark film that there is not much to add so here are a few observations about the film and the extras:

- The film has a dark and sombre mood which is unexpected and surprising. The backstage glimpses have a harshness and the comedy is very sharp and venal - nothing light and frothy here.
- Warner Baxter and Bebe Daniels had at least 10 years experience behind them when they made the film and their performances have great depth. Baxter portrays a very sick man and Daniels captures the prospect of being over the hill movingly.
- Ruby Keeler's ingenuousness maybe real but the casting makes her perfect here. Never was such blank innocence so convincing which explains why her reviews at the time were so good. It was only as her career progressed that her limitations became obvious, although she always improved. Her tap dancing is a legacy of a different style from heavy shoes and timber floored speakeasies when she really had "to put 'em down" to be heard. Later in the decade, her tap lightened up.
- Dick Powell is also perfectly cast and his devilish way with the lyrics of "Young and Healthy" suggest an active libido. He is underrated.

The print of the film is excellent but Warner's seemed to have messed up the extra features. The documentary on this film appears on the DVD of "Goldiggers of 1933" with a short on the promotion of the film when Warner's hired a train, the 42nd Street Special, to cross America to reach Washington for President Roosevelt's birthday. What remains is a poor short film on Harry Warren, who wrote the songs, and other shorts promoting Warner Brothers which in fact were made 2 years later and refer to other musicals. It is all a bit confusing.

Unless you purchase this DVD as part of the Busby Berkeley set, the DVD is only OK value.

"WHAT A MOVIE ! ".......2006-10-28

"This was one innovative, exciting, pleasurable, and very entertaining
movie!"

Innovative in the sense that at the beginning.....the main actresses and actors are shown in large individual photos accompanied by very
beautiful background music composed by Harry Warren.
The Plot was exciting and entertaining since it concerned and developed
the real problems intrinsic to producing, developing, and directing a
winning musical/dancing/acting/and choreographed ensemble!
The "Kingpins"in bringing this whole thing to reality were:
Warner Baxter....Director/Slavedriver
Busby Berkeley...Master Choreographer/Director
Bebe Daniels.....terrific Singer...Actress...Dancer
Prominent Cast Members...Ruby Keeler..Ginger Rogers..Dick Powell
...and others listed in opening credits!
Harry Warren /Al Dubin...provided music and lyrics for:
" 42nd St"..."Young and Healthy".."Shuffle
off to Buffalo".."You're Getting To Be A Habit
With Me!"

"Chorus Girls" were extremely talented ladies!....they had to
be... since this was 1933 and the country was
in a big Depression! Jobs were scarcer than "Hen's
Teeth!" 5,000 fully experienced and talented
ladies tried out for the Chorus Girl positions...only 200 or 4% survived!
A good bit of pleasure can be derived from the movie...not just as you see it.....but afterwards!
The probability is that you'll be humming, whistling, or even singing
some of the tunes after seeing this movie.
The one song that lends itself especially to the above symptoms is:
"You're Getting to be a Habit with me!" Personally...I think this is one of the best songs that I've heard in a long time.!
It's a real blessing that this 73 year old movie can now be viewed on
DVD with exacting clarity and superior sound!

If it were not for the superior upgrading in casting, music, Choreography, and plot of the movie......the title of this Review would be:......................."What Movie?"
rather than:
"WHAT A MOVIE!"

DICK POWELL AND RUBY KEELER!!.......2006-09-10

42nd Street is one of the greatest movies of all time. It has been 7 months since I first watched it, and while some people would say that I am WAY too young to be interested in classics (people have told me that I should be watching stuff like the Princess Diaries) I have ALWAYS found stuff like Footlight Parade more interesting, and instead of swooning over Brad Pitt or whovever is considered a hot male star these days, I find myself swooning over old-timey actors like Robert Taylor or Rudolph Valentino. So i really LOVE old movies, even silents from the earliest days, like Intolerance. I had never seen any Busby Berkeley pictures before I bought the collection (which is AWESOME) So 42nd Street was new to me. I was ASTOUNDED by the musical numbers. That guy was a genius! And the cast! I recognized Bebe Daniels, from her silents, and I think she was AMAZING in this. Didn't know she could dance or sing! I also recognized Warner Baxter form his slents, and he was AMAZING too! He looked much older than I'd seen him before, though. I loved the Dubin/Warren music, which is PURE 30s. Good memorablehits like You're Getting to be a Halbit With Me and Young and Healthy. Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler are just SO CUTE TOGETHER!! I EVEN LIKE THEM BETTER THAN ASTAIRE AND RODGERS!! I have seen almost all their movies, except for Colleen and Shipmates Forever. If you are a Powell/Keeler fan, you'll love 42nd Street. Oooh, and the comedy is very cliche, but put over well. This keep caseDVD is nice, and the picture is clear, but there aren't many extras. The 42nd Street dcumentary is on the Gold Diggers of 1933 DVD. So I reccomend you buy the whole Busby Berkeley Collecion instead of the one DVD. I am not going to mention the plot, so just check out the summary. Plus, in 1933, this is the musical that made everyone like musicals again, beacuse they weren't poular at that time until 42nd Street came along. Oh, and Ruby Keeler is heavy footed, and she did better in her later films. She is still a teriffic dancer, although she can't copare to Eleanor Powell. (If you don't know who Eleanor Powell is you've been living under a rock.) Well, this is a very good movie, and the essential musical. Here are some other movies that you should like if you like old muicals: Footlight Parade, Dames, Colleen, The Broadway Melody, Born to Dance, Honolulu, Broadway Melody of 1940, Rio Rita, Dixiana, Top Hat, Flying Down to Rio, Roman Scandals, Whoopee!, Go Into Your Dance, Take a Chance(very good), Down Argentine Way, Wonder Bar, Go Into Your Dance, Ziegfeld Follies, Boldie of the Follies, and my PERSONAL FAVRITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME......the BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936!!! Starring Robert Taylor, Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, June Knight, Una Merkel, Nick Long Jr., Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen, Vilma Ebsen, and others. IT THE BEEEESSSSTTT!!! YOU HAVE GOTTA SEE THE I'VE GOT A FEELN' YOU'RE FOOLIN MUISCAL NUMBER! HLOORAY FOR JUNE KNIGHT AND ROBERT TAYLOR!! AHHH-MAZING!!!

Nostalgia at its best, with great songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.......2006-07-11

42nd Street is one of my favorite movies. It's the granddaddy of "put on a musical" musicals, and if it seems full of cliches now it's because cliches have to start somewhere. They weren't cliches when 42nd Street opened. When young Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler) has to take the place of the star, gets a pep talk from Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) and then dances from the wings into the big production number of Shuffle Off to Buffalo...well, is there any doubt that Peggy is going to come back a star? (Even if Marsh's talk is enough to scare the tap shoes off Fred Astaire, much less little Peggy Sawyer. "Sawyer, you listen to me, and you listen hard. Two hundred people, two hundred jobs, two hundred thousand dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who've worked with you. You've got to go on, and you've got to give and give and give. They've got to like you. Got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right, now I'm through, but you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out, and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!")

The story is endearing because we've seen it so many times. The movie is still so fresh, so good and so entertaining, however, because of the songs, the actors and Busby Berkeley's turn-tables, disappearing benches, moving cameras and high-kicking chorus girls. I can watch many times over the musical numbers (songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin) performed by a young, energetic and perfectly confident Dick Powell (I'm Young and Healthy), Una Merkel and Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom (Shuffle Off to Buffalo), the big 42nd Street extravaganza with Ruby Keeler and half the population of New York City, and a great song that still holds its own, You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me (sung by Bebe Daniels).

Ruby Keeler was such a long shot for actual stardom. She couldn't act. She sang well but without much emotion. Her tap dancing was all elbows and thumping feet. Yet she was so innocent and earnest you just can't help rooting for her. When Warner Baxter gives his impassioned pep talk to Keeler as Peggy Sawyer, he is all intensity, driving home just how important it is for Sawyer to succeed. Keeler is facing him with a pleasant, utterly emotionless expression on her face. Try watching the scene but focus on Keeler, not Baxter. Her lack of expression is so incongruous it's absolutely endearing. Perhaps that's why she was such a success. She might be a klutz like us, but she's going to give it her all in front of an audience, something most of us wouldn't have the courage to try.

One of the delights of the musical numbers is watching Una Merkel and Ginger Rogers in an upper birth, Merkel eating a banana and Rogers an apple, giving the other side of the story of Shuffle off to Buffalo. First we watch Keeler and Nordstrom (unbilled and with an odd vibrato):

I'll go home and pack my panties
You go home and get your scanties
And away we'll go.
Off we're gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
To Niagara in a sleeper
There's no honeymoon that's cheaper
And the train goes slow.
Off we're gonna shuffle,
Shuffle Off to Buffalo.

But then Merkel and Rogers give their point of view between bites of banana and apple:

Matrimony is baloney,
She'll be wanting alimony,
In a year of so.
Still they go and shuffle,
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
When she knows as much as we know
She'll be on her way to Reno
While he still has dough.
She'll give him the Shuffle
When they're back from Buffalo.

The movie is filled with similar wise-cracking attitude. And if you're into drugs or love or just exceptionally well-written songs, you cant beat You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me:

Every kiss, every hug,
Seems to act just like a drug.
You're getting to be a habit with me.
Let me stay in your arms,
I'm addicted to your charms.
You're getting to be a habit with me.
I used to think your love was something
That I could take or leave alone.
But now I couldn't do without my supply.
I need you for my own.
Oh I can't break away, I must have you every day,
As regularly as coffee or tea.
You've got me in your clutches and I can't get free,
You're getting to be a habit with me.

With 42nd Street at least, nostalgia is everything it's said to be.

The DVD transfer is excellent. There are several extras including a short vintage feature on composer Harry Warren.

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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.......2007-07-24

Growing Pains..........2007-07-18

Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made.......2007-07-03

A movie worth sinking your teeth into!.......2007-06-01

For a werewolf movie i loved it!.......2007-05-13

Most werewolf movies i see are cheesy. For a B-movie this movie had a good storyline. The characters were good. Movie cam fast, in good quality.

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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
Growing Pains...
Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made
A movie worth sinking your teeth into!
For a werewolf movie i loved it!

Ginger Snaps
Starring: Emily Perkins , Katharine Isabelle , Kris Lemche , Mimi Rogers , and Jesse Moss (II)
Director: John Fawcett
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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.......2007-07-24

Growing Pains..........2007-07-18

Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made.......2007-07-03

A movie worth sinking your teeth into!.......2007-06-01

For a werewolf movie i loved it!.......2007-05-13

Most werewolf movies i see are cheesy. For a B-movie this movie had a good storyline. The characters were good. Movie cam fast, in good quality.

Ginger Snaps - The Trilogy (special Collector's Edition)(Boxset)

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This is the beginning of a journey in terror that flows through the ages. A hunger that began on the frontier in the 19th century, where Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald search for sanctuary from the shocking evil at the gate and experience the first bite. Legend becomes reality. The bloody trail that will be picked up years later in quiet suburbia, when the beast rediscovers Ginger's scent and satisfies his thirst for blood. Once unleashed, the beast stalks the last of his prey until the final nightmare of a showdown in this chronicle of a curse that no silver bullet can kill.

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Ginger and Brigitte, two sisters trapped in suburbia, are obsessed with mayhem, torture and death until they get a taste of the real thing. Bitten by a wild animal, Ginger begins to mature into a sexy, uncontrolled woman, with some nasty canine tendencied.

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Snappy acting.......2005-08-15

A couple of sisters (Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle) with vivid imagination are misunderstood. One gets bit by a "you know what" and the fun begins. Naturedly this is mistaken for a different type of change in life.

All the elements are there:
Caring (haven't got a clue) parents.
Blond with nasty attitude antagonist.
Drug dealer that does werewolf studies on the side.
Lots of neighbors with tasty pets.
Occasional gratuitous sex scene (the camera breaks away before the sweaty parts.)
You get the idea.

Will a cure be found and they all live happily ever after or is it curtains for the victims(s)?

The movie does have its unique way of mixing the standard elements to come out with the average "nipper" story. The only social redeeming value is the sisters' fidelity.

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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
Growing Pains...
Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made
A movie worth sinking your teeth into!
For a werewolf movie i loved it!

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BEST WEREWOLF MOVIE SINCE AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.......2007-07-24

Growing Pains..........2007-07-18

Hands Down the BEST Werewolf/Horror movie made.......2007-07-03

A movie worth sinking your teeth into!.......2007-06-01

For a werewolf movie i loved it!.......2007-05-13

Most werewolf movies i see are cheesy. For a B-movie this movie had a good storyline. The characters were good. Movie cam fast, in good quality.

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