The Fantasticks 2000 123movies

Watch: The Fantasticks 2000 123movies, Full Movie Online – Two teenagers on neighboring farms steal glances and hide their romance from their feuding fathers. However, the fathers are actually good friends who have hatched a plan–with help from a mystical roving sideshow and its equally-mysterious ringmaster–to get the two lovebirds down the aisle. But in order to bring these families together, they must first be torn apart..
Plot: Two rural teens sing and dance their way through a forbidden romance and a dangerous travelling carnival.
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Ratings:

	5.6/10 Votes: 1,379
	48% | RottenTomatoes
	48/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 22 Popularity: 3.626 | TMDB

Reviews:

Disappointing
Given the resources and talent involved, one would have hoped for much more, but the movie lacks the sparkle of even a mediocre stage production.

Joel Grey as Bellamy phoned in his performance. Even making allowances for the fact that he was 63 when he made the movie, his performance was remarkably lifeless and his singing was unremarkable, even strained at times. Brad Sullivan as Hucklebee was even worse, flat performing and flat singing. Joseph McIntyre as The Boy turned in a passable performance, though he didn’t really do the role justice. Jean Louisa Kelley as The Girl was perhaps the brightest spot in the lineup, delivering an adequate if not inspired performance.

Jonathon Morris was sadly miscast as El Gallo. He had the agility and strength needed for such a physical role, but lacked the proper menacing look needed. His acting was, if not totally flat, at least rather plastic. And the one song he needed to really carry — “Try to Remember” — he didn’t have the voice for.

The staging was the most inspired part of the movie. Simply filming the minimalistic stage production wouldn’t have worked, but the movie’s set — two homes and a carnival set in the prairie — was sufficiently minimalistic to honor the play’s concept while still bending to the requirements of the big screen. This facilitated devices that helped to flesh out some of the more ambiguous scenes in the play.

The script was unfortunately a Bowdlerized version. The song substituted for “The Rape Ballet” was incredibly uninspired and inconsistent. It was almost as if the writer wanted the substitute to be bad, in retaliation for pulling the original piece. In addition to “The Rape Ballet” substitution, several other songs were changed from the original, generally not for the better, and the delightful “Plant a Radish” was omitted entirely.

Perhaps the saddest change of all from the stage play was that the role of The Narrator was essentially omitted, and with it some of the most enchanting poetry in the script.

It takes years to get to the screen and this is the best they can do?
The pluses for this are terrific art and production design which is beautifully displayed by the cinematography of Fred Murphy but pretty pictures only go so far. The piece’s other strong suit is a fine score with many lovely songs however they are compromised by being given to the two leads who have thin reedy voices without distinction or subtlety and the tunes suffer because of it. The score was a favorite of the young Barbra Streisand and she recorded several of the numbers, listen to her versions of Much More, Soon It’s Gonna Rain and particularly I Can See It and you’ll understand what has been lost in the pallid interpretations offered here. Alas it is of no help that the same romantic leads share zero chemistry on screen with McIntyre practically disappearing from the screen, so bland is his presence. The best work is turned in by Brad Sullivan and Joel Grey but their parts are small and Grey is especially wasted. Catch the live show instead.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 26 min (86 min), 1 hr 49 min (109 min) (original)
Budget 10000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Musical, Romance
Director Michael Ritchie
Writer Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
Actors Joel Grey, Barnard Hughes, Jean Louisa Kelly
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA (as CFI)
Film Length 110 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm