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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Toralv Maurstad sings and dogs bark on the mountaintops of Austria. O.K., this takes place in Norway, but dogs feel the pain from thousands of miles away. Poor Florence Henderson, just settling into the role of Carol Brady, and a sweetheart of the world of Rodgers and Hammerstein, having churned butter in "Oklahoma!", made curtains out of drapes in "The Sound of Music" and washed that man right out of her hair in "South Pacific". Her promising attempt to become the next Julie Andrews or Shirley Jones ended here, mainly because movie musicals in most cases were bombing, this one quickly dismissed and driving its small audiences to near deafness.I couldn't believe what I was hearing here, the alleged biography of Edward Grieg, and one where a hangover is preferable. The songs are among the mist wretched that I have ever heard in a movie musical, especially in such a cynical era as the early 1970's. Toocmany nature shots show what was on the cameraman's eye, and I wonder if producer/director Andrew Stone was looking for a tax write-off after seeing "The Producers". Cameos by Robert Morley and Edward G.Robinson added a little bit of curiosity, and Florence tries her best to rise above the material. It's overly long (complete with intermission) and consistently dull. There's nothing to put this in the category of camp, leaving me to prefer to revisit the musical version of "Lost Horizon" than to ever subject myself or my neighbors who happen to hear it of ever enduring this again.

Muslim detainees in Guantanamo Bay were reportedly tortured by having to watch this film several times a day, many of them begging for mercy and swearing they would eat pork chops for dinner every day if only they quit showing them this film... ***WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!*** The Surgeon General has concluded that watching this movie may be hazardous to your health. ... I saw this movie on the Big Screen when it came out. I loved Grieg's music (well, still do) but this film really put my loyalty to the test. Others here have spoken quite eloquently about the movie's incredible editing and song and dance numbers, so I won't add to the comments. The reason I gave the movie two stars instead of one was: Florence Henderson's wonderful role in reprising her cameo in Weird Al Yankovic's "Amish Paradise", and the totally meaningless non-sequitur animated sequence about two thirds through the movie where you have monsters popping out of fiords.

A horrible biography of composer Edvard Grieg's early life. It was shot on location in Scandanavia. The scenery is just beautiful and the music is fantastic--even the songs (based on Grieg's music) aren't bad. The problem? Everything else. The story is just non-stop clichés; the movie is way too long (2 1/2 hours); the dance numbers are badly staged and hysterically lousy and the acting...let's put it this way...Florence Henderson gives the best performance! Grieg himself is played by Toralv Mausted. Ever hear of him? Didn't think so. There's a reason for this. Also there are over FORTY songs shoved into this movie. Like I said, they aren't bad, but it gets to be a bit much after a while.I'm giving this a 3 for the scenery and music but everything else is hopeless. Easily one of the worst musicals ever made. Too bad--the scenery is truly gorgeous.

This wretched film was inflicted upon me at a weekend house party, when the hosts insisted that we all watch this "absolutely lovely movie" together. Imagine being trapped for 2 and a half hours with a VIDEO of this travesty, on a small TV screen, seeking brief respites ("could you pause it while I visit the 'facility'?"), having to mumble polite monosyllables of assent in response to the hosts' appalling praise of what turned out to be absolute drivel. The film does have exquisite scenery...Norway's a beautiful country! It has lovely music...Grieg was a decent enough composer! It also has the most atrociously awful acting (the lead is one Toralv Maurstad, who has mercifully vanished from sight, Florence Henderson is in this, for Pete's sake---and what on earth are Robert Morley, Edward G. Robinson, Oscar Homolka, and Harry Secombe doing in this?), a sophomoric (or worse) script, amateurish direction, incompetent film editing. And it is SO BORING!!!! No, it's worse than boring, it is profoundly IRRITATING in its boredom.