Well, everything is now more settled down, after putting Mary safely on a plane to Ireland, and preparing and sending my Valentine’s package to my sweetheart….and making my first heroic steps towards going back to the gym. So now it is time for a little reflection.
My mind has been spinning quite a bit lately with everything going on, but I did take a moment last Friday to see the movie The Producers, and I’d like to offer a few words of critique. The title of this entry, as you see above, is “Suspend Your Disbelief” which is what you have to do any time you approach a musical, especially of a Broadway persuasion, and this movie is no exception.
Did I like the movie? Hard to say. Not a resounding yes or no. It felt uneven. It took a long time to get started, a long time for that comfortable suspension of disbelief to set in. At first, it was just goofy, even uncomfortable.
The Leo Bloom character was a little more “over the top” than expected. Was that Matthew Broderick’s interpretation, or is he always portrayed that way? (BTW, speaking of Matthew Broderick, now I know the world is indeed still spinning, because at last he is beginning to look older. I never thought it would happen, but yeah, it happens, even to cuties like Matthew Broderick).
After a while, you begin to settle in a little more comfortably into this ridiculous world, to lose yourself in it to some extent. But I don’t think ever completely. All in all, I was somewhat disappointed. I expected it to be better. It was still good, but I expected better. But I think to see better, you would really have to see it live on the stage, where the suspension of disbelief is already assumed to a much greater extent before the first curtain even goes up.
Oh hey, I was going to see that! Maybe not now though, I’ll wait till its at the Library…
I was actually thinking that this would be a cool movie to *own* on DVD, since you could have all that fabulous music playing in the background while you do other stuff around the house.