I love this movie so much

Don't Believe the Hype

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Hutton is embarrassing, but presumably this is due to the direction by George Sidney. Sidney had a number of successes, including this one, but they definitely belong to a bygone era. Hutton's prancing gymnastics and gyrations in this show make me want to look away, except for the horseback performance. Was that by Betty ? Howard Keel, always rather wooden, was much better in Calamity Jane and Seven Brides. This musical is carried by the truly memorable songs, but in the others there are also other attractions. Only the bits by Busby Berkeley have some extra originality and distinction in Annie GYG.

The play is surely a classic (from what I've heard) but this is a pretty troubled film.For one, the misogynistic attitude of the Frank Butler character makes Seven Brides for Seven Brothers look progressive by comparison and Annie Oakley is portrayed as so stereotypically backwater that the Beverly Hillbillies would probably have boycotted this film. While we have to accept that cultural values have shifted just a little bit, some of the blame rests with the way Howard Keel and Betty Hutton approached their parts.I hate to say that because they were two of MGM's most underrated treasures but Hutton's aw shucks hillbilly demeanor was over-the-top and her overeffusiveness of Keel's Butler in the opening scene bordered on cartoonish (I was half-expecting a heart to start visibly beating out of her chest like Pepe le Pew). Similarly, Keel's Butler seemed to have little more than a passing interest in Hutton's Annie Oakley and it never really felt like a love story in that respect. Without the chemistry, the film falls apart because it almost seems like Oakley has an unhealthy obsession with this Frank Butler who kissed her once but otherwise treated her like either dirt and Buffalo Bill is just an enabler.The number "Anything you can do I can do better" is still a showstopper and "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" still has some enthusiasm although Hutton's hillbilly diction takes away from it. The film has many of the trademarks of the MGM films of the era with the rich color palette, lavish period details, and orchestral backing to the songs.

A fun movie partly based on Real Life Annie Oakley, girl sharpshooter. Yes, Oakley really did shoot a cigarette out of the mouth of the German Kaiser. Imagine if she had missed...would we still have had WW1 later on???Native Americans are the leaders in some of this film (they have to finance some of the shows--some counsel naiive Annie). This is slightly advanced for 1950, in giving Native Americans the positions of the better counselors for this young naiive girl. Lots of fun songs, fun moments, and Betty Hutton as the Naiive but Talented Annie Oakley.Betty Hutton seemed to BECOME her roles (or...perhaps directors cast her in roles that resembled the real life exuberant Betty Hutton). The only awkward moment for me was the "I'm an Indian Too" song...where she dances with Native Americans (who actually appear to be true native Americans, not white people with dark makeup). They dance beautifully, but Hutton's naiive mugging doesn't work for me...in this scene.

I have to agree with the guys and gals who praise Betty Hutton to the skies, Irving Berlin's blue ones. I always enjoy Garland, but no one could have handled the role of Annie Oakley better than Hutton. I also enjoyed Barbara Stanwyck as Annie Oakley in the black-white non-musical version.In AGYG, the songs fitted beautifully with the wonderful plot, especially the "Anything You Can Do -" number with Keel and Hutton giving it their all.All around praise to Irving Berlin for so many great songs in one package. They were particularly impressive when Hutton was singing them. Her sister, Marion, of course, did her vocalizing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He wanted one of the sisters and settled on lookalike Marion, feeling that sis, Betty, was too energetic.While "Annie Get Your Gun" had its production problems, it's the end result that counts, and the end result is one outstanding musical. The grand finale with all those horses and people was straight out of Busby Berkeley, although his crew had prettier legs - fewer of them, but prettier. However, you couldn't ride them."Annie Get Your Gun" and aim at this reviewer. Pull!!