Isn't She Great [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Isn't She Great [VHS]
Movie Review: bette is wonderful as Jackie Susanne
Summary: 5 Stars
i loved the movie.bette was wonderful aswell, as Stocker Cahnnind!Movie Review: Superficial on superficial
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a stunningly superficial film about incredibly superficial people. Bette Midler plays Bette Midler, of course, and Nathan Lane is simply wonderful. But the script stinks. Not more than a single laugh in the movie. But what could be done with a biography of a pornographer who wanted only to be famous and cursed God, whom she thought lived in a tree? Technically, the film is fine. But it isn't worth anyone's time.Movie Review: A PARTY, WITH LOTS OF HEART
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was so good,funny, and affecting that I ended up seeing it twice in the cinema. Now, I'm a BIG Bette Midler fan. I mean BIG.But I can't really say that I am biased, because ANY film with her radiates such warmth, and energy, and this one is no different. This movie isn't very thought-provoking, but it is sincere,hilarious, but at the same time very, very fragile.All the costars did a solid job, but this is Bette's party, this is her movie. I won't give away the plot, but it's about a writer, Jackie Susan (she wrote 'Valley of the Dolls"), in the 60's, and she is in every sense of the word a rockstar.Over the top,dramatic, in your face, flashy, but with lots of heart and soul.She keeps getting rejected, 'till she finally gets her chance at becoming what she aspires to be- a writer. Then Jackie gets a punch, she's diagnosed with cancer. But she gets ten more years, and on those ten years, she takes you on ana entertaining and delightful ride, without ever once losing spirit. The way Bette portrayed Jackie, she made her seem like such a lovable person, warm,fiery,crazy,shrewd,witty, and full of heart-someone a lot like me.I bet Jackie was great.And you know what, so is Bette. I reccommend everyone sees this film.It's the perfect comedy, with just a touch of sad.Movie Review: This isn't Great
Summary: 2 Stars
Okay before I get started I want to make the following very clear:1. I am a big fan of both Bette Midler and Nathan Lane.
2. I am a bigger, and not to mention well read, fan of dear Jackie Susann.
I just finished watching this movie, and disappointed is not even the word that describes how I feel right now. The movie was so inaccurate it is disturbing. Yes Jackie was a climber, at best when it came to her show business career, and yes Guy was/is autistic and unfortuantely they could not have him live with them. And yes, Valley, Love Machine and Once were more than successful. But, what hapened to "Every Night", what happened to Jackie's relationship with her father, mother, Ethel Merman and countless others.
Let me add this : Jackie asked Irving to marry her, when she called him at his parent's house in Brooklyn. Irving did not know who Jackie was until that fateful day by the pay phone in the theater distrct only one year before she proposed when she caught his eye. After Jackie's first bout with cancer and the mastectomy, her and Irving were like bacon and eggs. Now I know the first years of their marriage were probably not cemented in stone like the later were, she was a child brde for all intensive purposes, not to mention a bit of a free spirit. and let me add this, if you read Irving's biography of Jackie, he even acknowledged that his feelings towards their union were confused at best, they truly fell in love with each other along the way.
The movie did improve once Jackie sold Valley, and Bette and David Hyde Pierce's relationship was superb , but wasted on the falacies wrtten in the script.
If you want an accurate bio of the Queen of camp this is not the way to go despie the extraordinary talents of Bette, Nathan, Stockard and David.
Movie Review: Bette Midler as Jacqueline Susan. Doesn't work too well
Summary: 2 Stars
As I heard one critic say, it would've been better if someone such as Stockard Channing who gives a satisfactory supporting performance here would have played the title character. THe movie is first of all too campy for Bette's popularity as well as too serious for her brassy, outlandish which works very rarely in dramas as it did in THE ROSE, BEACHES and FOR THE BOYS (the best dramas of her career). Nathan Lane as the husband? EXCUSE ME. He is a good actor but doesn't work well in this role. The rest of the supporting cast do a good job in the brief appearances they make as Bette and Nathan dominate most of the film. Bette does a good job but someone better could have filled this role. Bette does have a chance to show some of her witty humor but not too often. More entertaining if you are a fan of one of the stars or even better if you're a Jackie fan.