A would-be flapper in 1920s new york saves her friend from white slavers in a chinatown firecracker factory. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/03/2003 Starring: Julie Andrews James Fox Run time: 138 minutes Rating: G Director: George Roy Hill
Julie Andrews is at her peak of adorability in this enjoyable (and surprisingly sarcastic) spoof of the 1920s. It has every trick: occasional silent-movie intertitles, flapper lingo ("Oh, banana oil"), and a laughable plot about women being sold into white slavery by the scheming manageress (splendid Beatrice Lillie) of a Hotel for Ladies, aided by a cabal of wicked Chinese. (The stereotypes are bearable only if you remember this is a spoof of silent movie melodrama.) Even with able support from Mary Tyler Moore and James Fox, this is Julie's show; she plays to the camera with the collusion of director George Roy Hill, who's clearly smitten with her silly streak. The movie has an annoying tendency to spend time on musical numbers--a Jewish wedding, a vaudeville act--that don't serve the plot. A future Broadway musical would create a new score, except for the delightfully catchy title tune. --Robert Horton

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Musical
Comment: Thoroughly Modern Millie is a very excellent musical. Very funny and well worth the money I paid for it

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Summary: Good MoviesThroughly
Comment: I purchased "Throughly Modern Millie" an enjoy the DVD. It is entertaining and funny. It is the first time to purchase for this comany, but I found it to be easy and delivery was in a fashionable lenght of time. Would recommend this company to all.

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Summary: Thoroughly Modern Millie DVD
Comment: It's a fun movie. We bought it because our daughter is going to be in the play and so thought it would be good for her to see what the story is really about. She loved it.

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Summary: 'This is a Bad, Disgusting, Disturbing, Racist Movie!'
Comment: I saw this movie last year (2007), because my school did the play (which is fabulous). I was aware of the racism in the story at that time, but only knew it to be mild and shown in a negative light. I was horrified by what I saw in the movie. The adorable, sweet, funny Ching Ho and Bun Foo, are replaced by creepy, perverted, 'Orientals', who come from a Chinatown, that bares a resemblance to the Biblical image of Babylon. The Chinese are portrayed as rat-like vermin, and the actual images of Big Mary's Tart Shop, were horribly disturbing, showing the young women, whom Mrs. Meers (the strange, Chinese-effected owner of the Hotel Priscilla) has kidnapped, writhing in gags and cords, while they are packed into shipping crates, for the trip to the streets of Hong Kong.

Julie Andrews is the absolute opposite of Millie in the musical; feisty, loud, flapper-ish, ambitious, and obnoxious - not poised, blessed with a posh British accent, and of course (judging by the aforesaid), British; the unwanted daughter of the Duke of Cornwall, or an origin to that effect. Mrs. Meers is merely an elderly white woman, effected, with simply sticks in her hair. Carrol Chaning as Muzzy van Hossmere - Good heavens! - There is nothing good about this movie, except for it shows where the musical comes from, and more accurately how things looked in 1922. I recommend this movie only to particularly vindictive, psychopathic racists, who want to see the young Mary Tyler Moore.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Thoroughly Leaden Millie
Comment: Imagine ordering the most succulent. lightest. frothiest souffle imaginable, only to be served something made out of marble. I don't know how it happened: Julie Andrews tries her best to inflate this lead balloon of a movie with her wonderful voice and her native wit, but at the point where Bea Lillie intones that "they all must die" trust me, you'll be rooting for her and her dart gun.

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