Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)'s comments

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Thorkell

Because it is SO well made and a true charmer. A wonderful musical!

12 years 3 months ago

TheMajor

Thin plot, but not bad. I wonder why this is on so many lists.

12 years 4 months ago

Why I had to see this movie before I die? I don't get it, I had just two boring hours more in my life. Maybe is this movie not that bad, I'm certain not one of the people, for whom this movie was made, but I'm sure there are more than 1007 running picture one must see more than this one.

7 years 1 month ago

Adrian B AWESOME

This movie is great. The Smith family is FUCKED. UP.

5 years 5 months ago

Typically Thomas

Were the kids meant to seem so spoilt? I liked the movie, but when spoiler

3 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

Meet Me in St. Louis is one the best regarded Judy Garland pictures, but it doesn't do it for me. Sally Benson's book is one of those turn-of-the-century family memoirs, more interested in incident than it is in plot, less Little Women than Life with Father or Cheaper by the Dozen, especially considering the father here, a character more or less in charge of doling out levity and heart to the proceedings. Obviously, Garland is good, but she's saddled with a distracting hairdo, somewhere between helmet and mullet, and who really cares about the girls' boyfriends, who all kind of look the same and don't come close to deserving such sprightly ladies (Judy's beau is particularly white bread and the movie doesn't even care to show his marriage proposal). As a musical, I'm afraid I can't remember a single song other than the ones I knew were already in it - the theme song of course, that trolley song Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn used to sing all the time on SNL, and the iconic Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas which has since passed into the Christmas canon - even when I look at a song list. Speaking of Christmas, it's certainly the best sequence in the movie. That song, a lot of tears (bless you, Mary Astor), and nice moments at the dance and at home. I wish the rest of the film could resonate so well with me.

3 years 10 months ago