Matthew is alot funnier and I think it brings a little more mirth to this than the original. They are both great but this is by FAR my favorite version!
Matthew is a what is the best thing to do it tomorrow is the best day to get the car to the house next week if you can help me out with my stuff on Friday if you want to Robbie Hagberg
We play "Seventy-Six Trombones" in our town's municipal band all the time. My best friend and I play trombone, and we just have a ball playing it. We're such band geeks!
my first musical i saw. absolutely bloody amazing. i dont care if preston was "better" because broderick is still really good :) && kristin chenoweth........words cannot describe kristin chenoweth hahah
Now being a musical fanatic I have to say that there are very many interesting musicals out there, but Meredith Willson's The Music Man is a fabulous piece of work. In my personal opinion it may even top the favorite list. I think that musicals like this one are few, and now adays there is only one brand of musical. The Pop Musical Era. I strongly praise the works of Lloyd Webber, Schonberg, and Wildhorn; but Kander, Strouse, and Willson have created a grand era that ought to be praised.
I'm playing in the pit orchestra of my school's production of Music Man. We've had one rehearsal, and we're already sick of Seventy-Six Trombones and all the playoffs and crossovers and ballets that go along with it.
This is cute, much in like the same way we see little kids learning how to sing and have finally got the words and timing down. But the original was an EPIC! no comparison!
3:47-4:07 reminds me of that scene in bye bye birdie where that girl is sad and the guy dances with her to make her feel better lolmaybe it's just me..
I wonder if Mr. Broderick ever took the time to watch the original. Not to copy or mimic but just to get a good idea of the energy required to really do justice to the words and music. This is one remake that they could have shelved...permanently. Yeesh.
I personally think Matthew Broderick did a good job in the role. We have to remind ourselves this is a remake, so it's bound to be different. It's ok to have one's own opinion that the original was better, but this movie introduced a new generation of Music Man fans. :)
I think the criticism of Broderick's performance is justified and the comparisons with Preston inescapable. The story of The Music Man is about Harold Hill, a grifter or conman, who uses his dazzling personality to charm and overwhelm people into buying band uniforms and instruments under the guise he will put together a great band. After making the sales he splits town (except for River City). Robert Preston played this role perfectly. He was energetic, enthusiastic and immensely charming, perfect for this role. In contrast, Broderick plays Harold Hill with little energy or enthusiasm or charm. He couldn't sell or con anyone, so the story just doesn't work. He comes off as just a boyish nice guy who does some singing. I think Broderick is a talented actor, but he is just miscast in this role.
People don't realize how annoying they are when they compare Matthew and Robert together...Matthew looked like he had a lot of fun in this movie and he did a good job and Robert was good too and they both did good in their own way people need to get over that and move on already.
I like both movie versions equally overall. But the 1962 version was more of my taste mainly because Robert Preston was the original both film and Broadway.
The thing is that Hill is able to scam an entire town through his flashiness, but Broderick isn't good at emoting and exciting people, his deadpan comedy is what got him on the map in Ferris Bueller, so it's confusing why this would be a good choice for someone so exciting like Hill. Also he's so obviously forcing it. He looks more like a cartoon character, but not in a good way.
@@marinadoshkevich4863 No. Unfortunately, human nature can make that difficult if not impossible. Its not important to me if Broderick had fun doing this or not either. A ten year old could have fun too. I can have fun singing in the shower. But thats not what entertainment is about. If Broderick had been given a chance to rewrite the script, put his own brand of droll humor into it, and mess with the story line - OK, maybe he could have done well with this. But, to take the script as written and not have a grasp of the essence of the character beyond that, what you end up is just a head scratcher. Broderick is great at roles where he can play the antithesis of this type of character. And Preston is the antithesis of Ferris Bueller. Ferris's clarinet playing sums up for me how Mathew seemed to approach this role. It just seemed like he didn't care, like the civics class he slept through. He only had one clarinet lesson, jokes about it like he's great but he really sucks. About the same here. Preston spent half his life perfecting this role. To not make comparisons would be a disservice to the art form. :) And then pretty soon, everyone would be casting ten year olds with no experience in roles like this. Hope that was annoying enough :)
OK, the last time I saw this was in 2003 when it premiered on the Wonderful World of Disney. I was 13 at the time and a short attention span, and since then I had always been skeptical of this version, but seeing that bit with Mathew Brodrick and that little girl just one me over.
I always think it's kind of fun, when I see a remake of an old favorite, to think of different performers who might also be good in the different roles. Does anyone else think that Jim Carrey might have made a wonderful Harold Hill?
Is there anyone who actually enjoys this WITHOUT viewing it through the lens of nostalgia? I can understand it from that angle, but otherwise it's confusing to me.
I've loved Victor Garber ever since I've seen Godspell. Now I'm not of the original Music Man's generation, but I have watched it many, many times & I love it a lot nobody can touch it. Great actors, acting, singing & performance. Nevertheless I may be guessing. However this one was probably made to bring the well loved classic to a younger generation. I a more ethnic friendly setting. There is a lot of good scenes in this one that I like. So people stop comparing sit back & enjoy.God bless.
See, what they need to do is get the Robert Preston version, and put it together with Kristin Chenoweth part, and it's, like, the perfect combination... :)
People need to be aware that the Disney redos of musicals are designed to be closer to the stage versions. Almost all of the main cast members are Broadway veterans.
As for Matthew Broderick's "charisma" he has 2X the charisma of his late father actor James Broderick, #2 what could be more "charismatic" than Ferris Bueller as he lip synched and twisted to The Beatles version of "Twist And Shout", I loved that scene and Matthew Broderick played THAT bit to perfection. Maybe people expected him to hit Harold Hill out of the park much the same was he hit it out of the park in "Ferris Buellar's Day Off".
Wonderful point, although I do get why people are 'hating' on Broderick. Because he wasn't the original Harold Hill, or in the movie from the 60's, they somehow think that makes him a bad actor. And, I'll admit, I'm not stranger to liking the original best in musicals (case in point: Sweeney Todd), but I still don't understand why people think being the original makes you the best. Gerard Butler was a great phantom. And Mathew Broderick was a great Harold Hill.
Kristin is fantastic in this movie...but so far, I haven't seen the charm of Harold Hill portrayed in Matthew Broderick, yet...but since I wanna give him a chance, I'll keep watching..
@hartleychase Yes, Broderick is a good actor and singer, and in this number especially he seems to be genuinely having fun. The problem is, numbers like "Trouble" need someone who can be charismatic and exciting and draw the crowd in. Broderick doesn't really have as much of that as Preston. And that's not a reflection on Broderick's abilities, it's just that his style of acting is more controlled and less overblown. But this particular musical needs over-the-top characters to be fun.
I love Broderick's performance, and this movie introduced me to this story, but Preston definitely did better on "Ya Got Trouble". I like Broderick's "Seventy-six Trombones" and "Marian the Librarian" better, but I think they equally did an amazing job in their own ways.
