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How sad is this?

Admirable film.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Welcome to an Ernst Lubitsch musical comedy, full of wonderful examples of his celebrated "touch". Of course some of these touches were present in the screen story by Ernest Vajda and some may have been added in the additional dialogue by Vincent Lawrence. Our star, Jeanette MacDonald is charmingly photographed and is in fine voice. This was a Paramount picture and therefore the sound recording was top notch and not third-rate as it often was in Miss MacDonald's MGM pictures. Among the songs presented here, I particularly liked "Beyond the Blue Horizon", "Always in All Ways", "Give Me a Moment Please", "She'll Love Me and Like It", "Trimmin' the Women", and "A Job with a Future". As usual, Hans Dreier's gorgeous sets make a notable contribution to the movie's success. In all, "Monte Carlo" is a most pleasant, witty and diverting offering.

This is the only one of Lubtisch's five films with MacDonald and Chevalier that can be considered a failure and primarily because of poor casting.There are lovely Lubitsch touches: the red carpet, the rain, the discovery of the missing bride, all without dialogue; the slap and the hair pat; the clock with first trumpet, then tuba, then flute; the elaborate four key locking of her chambers.The error is in casting Jack Buchanan, ugly, effeminate and silly, as her leading man. She runs to him from the equally ugly and effeminate Claude Allister. What were they thinking???? She needed a "man," not someone playing a man. I have no idea of the sexuality of either Buchanan or Allister, but she did not have a "real man" by Hollywood standards to play against, yet did her valiant best, as she always would in all her films. At one point in the dialogue, MacDonald accuses Buchanan of "not being a man at all."I'm not homophobic - I'm a gay man myself, but it must be said, Miss MacDonald was very poorly served in this outing. Yet, there is a grand original score, including two real gems: BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON and ALWAYS, IN ALL WAYS. Enjoy it for Jeannette, Lubitsch and the songs, despite the non chemistry with her leading man and the long, long dull parts of the play itself.Songs:Day of Days – Chorus She'll Love Me and Like It – Allister BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON – MacDonald GIVE ME A MOMENT PLEASE – MacDonald and Buchanan Trimmin The Women – Buchanan, Roche, Brooke WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S GRAND – MacDonald and Buchanan YOU'LL LOVE ME AND LIKE IT– reprise – Allister and MacDonald ALWAYS, IN ALL WAYS – MacDonald and Buchanan Give Me A Moment Please – reprise – Buchanan ALWAYS, IN ALL WAYS – reprise –MacDonald and Buchanan BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON – reprise – MacDonald and BuchananMacDonald sings 5 songs: Beyond The Blue Horizon; Give Me A Moment Please; Whatever It is , It's Grand; You'll Love Me And Like it; Always, In All Ways – plus two reprises.

Strictly for devotees of Jeanette MacDonald who have to see every one of her films. Pairing her with leading man Jack Buchanan is a big mistake here. He has neither the looks nor charm to be believable as her love interest.She does get to warble at least one attractive and well-remembered song: "Beyond the Blue Horizon," but all the other musical numbers are patter songs that merely fill in the gaps between some not too witty dialog.The tiresome tale is about a girl who runs away from her wedding and then mistakes a wealthy man (a Count) for a hairdresser. The mistaken identity goes on for almost the entire film without resulting in any real payoffs. Jeanette is her usual charming self but Jack Buchanan is really wasted here and never gets a chance to show what a great tap dancer he was--as in "The Bandwagon" years later with Fred Astaire.This is one even Jeanette's most ardent fans can afford to skip.

I'm going to try to convince you that this picture is not as good as they say, it bored me like hell. please don't forget that I like the genre, romantic comedies rule (especially Les Pärapluies de Cherbourg). but I don't know, maybe I felt bad about it because I just had an exam or maybe I didn't like the length of it (90 minutes) because I still had to go to school. so yes, maybe the movie was interesting, because I watched it until the end was long gone.but I'm afraid I will have to confess I only watched this because it was standing in my book with hard to find movie titles in it. maybe I sound a bit negative, which I am not, let me assure you that I can be happy with a small gift. and yes, Jack Buchanan does in fact steal the audiences attention completely to him. but than again, if you like Buchanan, go see The Band Wagon and not this Monte Carlo (even though he doesn't sing bad in here).so why did I wrote this review, beginning with saying I would prove you the film is not as good as they say it is, writing down why I didn't like the picture? that's no argument. well, maybe it's just a bad movie in my eyes, go see it and judge this picture yourself.