Top Hat

So I made a post a few weeks ago about how Top Hat was going to on TV for anyone who wanted to see it to its completion. So, at that time, I decided to DVR it for a later date and watch it if I chose to. Well yesterday afternoon, the choice came down to watch a movie (and Top Hat was short in a limited period of time) or study for AP Gov. (I bet you can guess which one I picked.)

Well I must admit, that I was not overly impressed with Top Hat as I was with the Asphalt Jungle, Unforgiven, or some of the other great films that we have seen this year -- but surprisingly, it was pretty good and the ending was somewhat clever and unexpected.

I don't know if anyone will actually watch the end of the movie, but I must admit that the 3 best double entredres of the film occur in the last 20 minutes of the film. They are really hilarious and actually made the movie quite enjoyable. I won't post them here yet, but if I get a consensus to post them, I will because they are honestly quite funny.

I must admit that the ending was pretty shocking, as a musical of this time and type can be and I actually found the ending to be stronger than expected. So in the end, although Top Hat will not go down as my favorite film of the year, on a whole the film was pretty good, and as someone who does not like musicals, I actually didn't mind this as a film. It is probably the best example of a good musical I have seen, although the number of musicals I have seen to best that off is not very high.

My final verdict on the film is that I feel that we were too harsh and unwelcoming to Dale and Jerry, and we should have not given it "the sword" like Beddini often wanted to do. This will probably not happen but I would suggest that anyone who had any shred of interest when we watched it the first time should try to seek it out and watch it because I found the last 30 minutes, stronger than the rest of the film, and came away from it glad that I had seen its conclusion.