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When you're in the mood for a light-hearted musical or just a bit of Fred Astaire, and don't mind the thirties clichés, and black & white film, then Top Hat hits the spot.
Fred dances elegantly but with pizzazz, dresses impeccably and acts in the aimably debonair style a la Coward which was suited to its time. Ginger Rogers dances with innocent feminine allure, dazzles in her costume dresses, and her acting fizzes like a heady cocktail, emotions popping all over like champagne with a lit sparkler in the glass. The supporting actors add comedy, colour and set piece scale, but do little to advance the plot, serving only as placeholders in between each musical number and pointers to the next major scene between the principal leads.
Fred dances elegantly but with pizzazz, dresses impeccably and acts in the aimably debonair style a la Coward which was suited to its time. Ginger Rogers dances with innocent feminine allure, dazzles in her costume dresses, and her acting fizzes like a heady cocktail, emotions popping all over like champagne with a lit sparkler in the glass. The supporting actors add comedy, colour and set piece scale, but do little to advance the plot, serving only as placeholders in between each musical number and pointers to the next major scene between the principal leads.
Chloe Grace Moretz does a spirited portrayal of a teenage girl forced to fend for herself and fight for her life in a post-apocalyptic world decimated by succeeding worldwide catastrophes and destruction. Defending herself from alien brutality and human betrayal. Romance develops in the midst of tragedy, all the while trying to find her missing brother. As a YA sci-fi drama flick, it is decent enough. As a full scale sci-fi dystopian drama acted by a young cast, it doesn't really stand up to scrutiny or depth of analysis. The film story doesn't faithfully follow that of the original book, but that is probably a good thing as the book wouldn't transfer to the screen visually due to internal character dialogue. If you lower your expectations based on past teen sci-fi dramas, then you can watch this with a measure of suspension of belief.
I originally rated this film a good 8/10, based on Chloe Grace Moretz carrying the film, as I like her spiky teenage kiss-ass (pun intended) girl characters. Looking back now I have revised my rating after taking a more critical and analytical view of it. In part, due to the overwhelmingly low, negative ratings and reviews for this movie. I don't make a habit of following the mob, but they aren't all wrong in their assessment of this movie. Rating is now 6/10.
I originally rated this film a good 8/10, based on Chloe Grace Moretz carrying the film, as I like her spiky teenage kiss-ass (pun intended) girl characters. Looking back now I have revised my rating after taking a more critical and analytical view of it. In part, due to the overwhelmingly low, negative ratings and reviews for this movie. I don't make a habit of following the mob, but they aren't all wrong in their assessment of this movie. Rating is now 6/10.
