An extravagant charmer.
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02/20/08
An American in Paris (1951)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:46
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: The plot may be problematic, but such concerns are rendered superfluous by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron's star power, the Gershwins' classic songs, and Vincente Minnelli's colorful, sympathetic direction.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and the colorful palette of director Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I.... [More]
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Reviews for An American in Paris
Top Critict's a simple love story, but also a celebration of dance, music and art, embodied in the somewhat synthetic notion of Paris as the spiritual home of the arts, and the painterly aesthetic of the film as a whole.
02/19/08
Top CriticA musical both ludicrously overpraised (especially in Hollywood) and underrated.
06/24/06
Top CriticNo review available.
10/15/03
George Guetary's singing scenes should have been left on the cutting room floor, but Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron are mesmerizing, and Oscar Levant is amusing as Jerry's piano playing buddy.
05/10/09
A triumph for tireless dance advocate Kelly, the Freed Unit, and the American musical itself. [Blu-ray]
03/30/09
A grand show -- a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack.
02/18/09
Top Critic...the musical numbers have enough life for two pictures.
09/06/08
How can one go wrong with Gershwin, Gene Kelly, and this Oscar winner?
02/24/08
One of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in years.
02/19/08
Top CriticNo review available.
01/05/08
While not nearly the musical it's cracked up to be, this 1951 film is absolutely required viewing for anyone who wants to see the studio system (MGM style) at its gaudiest, most Byzantine height.
12/12/06
Beautifully designed, An American in Paris features plenty of unnecessarily lengthy dance numbers and a mildly interesting plot.
10/31/06
The dazzling French fried musical is Hollywood's homage to Paris's joie de vivre.
09/04/06
Visually rich musical, with creative ballet finale.
08/26/06
A francophile and frustrated painter, Minnelli identifies completely with Kelly's American painter Jerry. Arguably no Hollywood director was as knowledgeable of French art as Minnelli, whose work evokes the light and color of his cherished painters.
07/16/06
Never the triumph that it really should have been, largely because of a thin script and the flyaway Caron, this is still good, colorful fun.
09/16/05
No review available.
07/01/05
No review available.
04/27/05
It is both comfortable entertainment and eye-popping cinema, with its dream ballet acting as a showcase for what the movie musical can really do.
02/23/05
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