Victor/Victoria

Pros: This was a cutting edge movie in 1982 addressing gay issues on some level.
Cons: They borrowed every story line from some tired movie/book.

I remembered why I hesitate to rent “musicals” when I put Victor/Victoria in the DVD player. While there are a few musicals I love like “Sound of Music,” “Annie,” and “Grease,” most of the films where people suddenly break into song and dance for ...

Pros: A career best from Julie Andrews. Robert Preston. Lesley Ann Warren.
Cons: Very little.

I am most put out. After a most uncomfortable journey, I arrived at Fanning Island, which is, I believe, three thousand miles from the nearest hair and nail salon, not to mention laundromat, and was jeeped out to the location for Celebrity...

Pros: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston (her gay friend), James Garner, witty story, singing
Cons: if you hate the gay scene or hot jazz, lighten up or look elsewhere...

One question: do you believe that a woman could pretend to be a man who’s pretending to be a woman? Let me back up. I’ll put it this way to make it a little clearer what I mean. Do you believe, or even want to believe if you will, that a brilliant...

Pros: Wonderful timing, humor, singing, and Robert Preston
Cons: Not a thing!

This is one of my favorite films when I need a good laugh. I got lucky tonight and my local PBS station was running this one uncut and without any commercials.

It's Paris of the 20's/30's, a time of gangster, nightclubs and one down and out...

Pros: She was doing riffs that amazed me.
Cons: None!

Ever since I saw the movie, The Sound Of Music, Julie Andrews has become one of my favorite actresses. So naturally, I became amorous of her distinctive voice and her ability to shift into any character and play it very well. Plus her voice is so ...

Pros: The comic moments
Cons: The way some people reacted to it

VICTOR/VICTORIA is, in the final analysis, a gender-based farce.

Julie Andrews, a legitimate singer, has had such poor luck in her auditions that she is in danger of being evicted from her rooming house for nonpayment of rent. In fact, she...

Pros: It's just too funny for words
Cons: You might bust a gut

Victor Victoria has the scene I most often recall when I think of a funny scene in a movie. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, I still laugh. When out-of-work singer Julie Andrews is thrown out of her apartment after fending off the...

Pros: Great story line and awesome acting!
Cons: None

I loved watching this movie! Julie Andrews and Robert Preston worked so well together! Of course the filmmaker Blake Edwards won an Academy Award for his music! It was nominated for seven Oscars, and three went to the Golden Globe Winner, Julie Andrews, ...

Pros: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner, Lesley Anne Warren, songs.
Cons: Not enough comedic or musical scenes. A few plot holes.

British actress "Victoria Grant" (Julie Andrews) teams with gay impresario "Toddy" (Robert Preston) in 1930s Paris when he gets the idea to get work by having her portray a female impersonator. She becomes a popular act on the cabaret when she runs into ...

Pros: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, hummable songs
Cons: One love song slows the film a little bit.

This is a sweet, funny movie.

Julie Andrews is Victoria Grant, a down-and-out singer in 1930's Paris. She's so desperate, she's willing to swap her virtue for a meatball. That is, until she meets Carroll Todd (Robert Preston). Through a...

Pros: Non-stop laughter/great cast
Cons: none

'Victor/Victoria' is, bottom line, one of the best comedies I've ever seen! The casting of Robert Preston as Toddy, the gay entertainer just cruising through life in search of a good time (and the almighty dollar, was genius. The man was both talented...

Pros: First act.
Cons: What follows.

An out-of-work Parisian singer (Julie Andrews), on the verge of starvation, hooks up with a gay nightclub performer (Robert Preston) in Blake Edwards's gender-bender musical Victor/Victoria (set in 1934). The premise, the brainchild of Preston's "Toddy," has the singer posing as a female impersonator, or "a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman." The big problem is that Andrews is never convincing as "Victor" (i.e., a man). So why then, short haircut notwithstanding, does he/she become the toast of Paris? I dunno, but a nagging suspicion remains: someone other than the director's wife might have been better cast. The second act introduces a new set of characters, including a Chicago mobster (James Garner) who finds himself attracted to the singer. He's "practically" sure he knows her true gender, but holds off making any overtures until he's absolutely certain. This, by the way, was not the case in the original 1933 German film, Viktor und Viktoria, but does allow Edwards to practice a kind of liberalism. The kind that safely plays to both sides of the fence. With Lesley Ann Warren and Alex Karras, songs by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse.

Pros: What great idea to get together such talented group to produce a funny and comedy!
Cons: That is no Cons to this movie!!

The movie gave to the 30's a comedy atmosphere that with a delighted combination with drama of the shortage of work and the necessity to survive, a refreshing view of the human can and did to overpass those hard times.
Julie Andrews and Robert Preston gave to us a great moments of friendship and partner on crime when they tried to bring the best of Julie Andrews to the public, and provide some comfort to both of them.