One of my all time favorites.

Best movie ever!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Good things: Beautiful sets, decent songs, ok performances, Higgins is fairly funny, and an easy to follow story.Bad things: WAY too long, useless songs especially from the dad, Audrey Hepburn has one of the worst voices of all time in the fist half of the movie (I know this is on purpose, but my god), and Higgins is a huge ass.My biggest and worst complaint about this fine movie, is that the run time is bloated with useless musical numbers, this is a 1hr 50min movie tops, but because of Bollywood type musical numbers it (like a Bollywood movie) is bloated to 2hrs 50mins. I think it's perfectly fine, but with heavy flaws.

My Fair Lady2 And A Half Out Of 5My Fair Lady is a character driven musical drama that is all distraction to make it glorifying and instead leaves the audience none wiser at the end of curtain. Even though their lies a greater and layered concept among all the traffic in the feature, it also walks on a wafer thin premise for the most part of it, which is never going to make to the "pros" section no matter how hard the makers try. It is short on technical aspects like editing, cinematography and choreography but is rich on the background score, costume, production and art design. The camera work is stunning and is shot beautifully with a pleasing environment and palpable tone for the audience. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is adaptive and thought-provoking if not gripping and smart as it seems. George Cukor; the director, has done an appreciative job but isn't good enough to create an impactful emotion on to the audience as aspired. The performance is plausible by Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison and is supported decently by Stanley Holloway and Gladys Cooper. My Fair Lady is a bit edgy but fair, an overstretched but worth and finely detailed but not elaborative that usually helps keep the audience engaged in it.

Watching Audrey Hepburn play Eliza Doolittle while Marni Nixon sings some wonderful Lerner and Loewe songs is the best of both worlds. Having undergone extensive voice training for the role, when she learned that all of her songs would be dubbed by Ms. Nixon, Audrey walked off the set in a state of miserable disappointment but apologized to the cast on the next day. Under the circumstances, who wouldn't understand her woeful dismay? Class act, Audrey.While Rex Harrison "talked" his songs, often as he deliberated to himself, and while Ms. Nixon so pleasingly intoned Hepburn's songs, the one member of the cast who actually sang his songs was Stanley Holloway who replayed his original Broadway role as Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's father. Holloway was born for the role. Sporting a dustman's cap with great authenticity and then donning an unlikely tuxedo for his own wedding, he stole the show with his two iconic singing and dancing numbers. Unforgettable!Unfortunately, not all of the songs in the show were as impressive as Holloway's, and, for me, a musical is only as good as its music, especially when it is brought to film. A few of the lesser tunes could have been eliminated without losing the gist of the story. The film also ran much too long with dialogue that seemed to repeat itself and actually became tiring. Eliza felt used and abused while Professor Higgins was slowly falling in love with her. Got it! No need to hammer these circumstances into our heads more than necessary.I also had trouble with the ending. While Harrison perfectly performs "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", again in that special, introspective manner, and suddenly realizes how emotionally attached he had become to Eliza, what was the message of the final scene? That Henry was still the same arrogant egotist that he had always been? Shouldn't the movie have ended with a much more confident Eliza assertively instructing him to get his own bloomin' slippers? To the very end, Henry and Eliza never enter into a physical relationship, and I suppose that was consistent with Shaw's original play, upon which this musical was based. I can accept that, but what had Henry learned during the past two hours and fifty minutes of film time? Apparently, not much.

(Flash Review)This WON EIGHT Oscars. I didn't realize it was a musical; 2hr 50min one at that. I'm not a big musical guy and watched this because I've always heard so much about it so now I can check it off. This must have been a stage play converted to film as the film sets felt very theatrical. The core story is high class gentleman agrees to a bet that he can take a gutter garbage woman (pretty close to the film's description) and turn her into someone who can blend into high class society. By teaching her how to speak properly and with an articulate vocabulary in addition to manners and attire. Mix in a love story amongst a variety of singing pieces that do advance the story and build out character depth. The dialog was clever, quick and snappy and some sets and costumes were elegant and grand. It did feel long, not overly engrossing and not in my movie wheelhouse.