HDNet Movies was showing My Fair Lady, a movie I've always heard great things about, and so I simply had to DVR it. Also, I'm a huge Audrey Hepburn fan (the epitome of grace and class in my book), so that's another reason why I had to see it.
Great musical. Amazing. What else can one say? Hepburn is at her best switching between accents and singing; and Rex Harrison is, well he's Rex Harrison, and that's all that needs to be said.
This film is just a classic. It's even been parodied in "Family Guy"...twice.
I do, however, have one grip with this film: The ending. I prefer the ending to George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion play, which served as the basis of the original film, as well as the stage and film musicals based on that adaptation. Generally it's a rule of mine to avoid the endings or plot twists, but I don't care in this instance. The musical is over 50 years old, and the film that changed the ending is 70 years old. If you haven't seen it or don't know the ending, then too bad. Anyhow, the ending would've been 10x better if Eliza hadn't returned to Prof. Higgins. She should have kept true to her plan to marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill.
Other than that, it seems to be the nearly perfect musical. One of the best I've seen, with songs that are absolutely amazing!
Full grade of 10/10, A+. It clearly deserved all the Academy Awards it received.
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