The Sound of Music: Critic Reviews

The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.

Check your cynicism at the door: Robert Wise's adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical still has a little soul in its bones.

The movie has almost everything: music, romance, kids, spectacular scenery, religion, sentiment, comedy high and low, and, at the end, intrigue and adventure.

Every audience sniffle and tear has been taken into account.

A warmly pulsating, captivating drama.

In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.

Outstanding family film features glorious music.

The Sound of Music is high-fructose corn-syrupy, built on simplistic psychology, unnaturalistic acting and historical inaccuracy. It's also well-nigh irresistible. [Blu-ray]

The Sound of Music has one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's best scores, and that's saying something. It's a warm and wonderful movie that has "timeless" written all over it.

It grows on one like edelweiss.

Escapist films about, well, escaping, don't come any better than this.

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God, The Sound of Music is so freakin' nice.

It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating. And only the sly, insistently subversive Christopher Plummer is on our side.

One of the finest examples of escapist musical entertainment. The Sound of Music is a terrific picture.

Labeled "Sound of Money," this is Hollywood musical as its most calculating, with something for everyone: corny anti-Nazi politics, melodic tunes, schmaltzy romance, old-fashioned family values

Call me a drongo, but this really is quite watchable (yes, I've seen it more than once).

No christmas day would be complete without spending the afternoon falling asleep in front of this film.

Watching it just makes you feel wonderful.

A classic in every sense of the word.

Great music, great scenery, how can you not love this?

To enjoy director Robert Wise's Best Picture winner you must overlook the bloated, sugar-coated story, and even then it's an uphill slog.