Best Musical Numbers in Film?

**Raiders** · 12-23-2008, 05:48 PM

Quoting Mara (view post)

That would be "Is there Anyone Here for Love?" Russel knocks it out of the park, but her back-up dancers are pretty laughable. They mess up repeatedly.

That's "Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?," actually.

I, too, watch musicals.

EDIT: And here you go.

**Derek** · 12-23-2008, 06:06 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

What's the movie and song with Jane Russell in the gym with a bunch of athletes?

To answer the other half of your question, the film is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

**transmogrifier** · 12-23-2008, 06:13 PM

Cheers, I ask because I remember liking that sequence, though I've only seen it once.

And Mara, I'm a musical fan myself, though I'm more of a sucker for well-done dance set-pieces.

I don't like movies where all lines are sung however - at all. Probably my least favorite cinematic conceit ever.

**Spinal** · 12-23-2008, 06:23 PM

After watching it again last night, I must submit:

"Thank You Very Much" - Scrooge!

**Spinal** · 12-23-2008, 06:24 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

I don't like movies where all lines are sung however - at all. Probably my least favorite cinematic conceit ever.

That's really weird.

**Derek** · 12-23-2008, 06:31 PM

"No Strings" from Top Hat, where Fred Astaire wakes up/pisses off Ginger Rogers.

The opening of Love Me Tonight. Sounds of the city of the city become music. I assume this was a major inspiration for the factory song in Dancer in the Dark.

**transmogrifier** · 12-23-2008, 06:36 PM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

That's really weird.

I don't know why - the thought of having to sit through Evita or The Umbrellas of Cherbourg again sends chills down my spine.

**Russ** · 12-23-2008, 06:37 PM

I almost forgot all about this great number: Hey Boy, Hey Boy from the no-budget sci-fi cult classic, The American Astronaut.

Check it out! Yeah, I'm all about these weird "flying-under-the-radar" musical numbers. But, Hey! somebody's got to do it.

**transmogrifier** · 12-23-2008, 06:58 PM

Oh yeah

Skid Row - Little Shop of Horrors

Dentist Song - Little Shop of Horrors

**Mara** · 12-23-2008, 08:05 PM

I don't know about "best," but an all-time favorite is the barn dance sequence from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. You can catch the action here.

Watch it all the way through... it escalates.

**Mara** · 12-23-2008, 08:13 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

Dentist Song - Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors is fantastic. I would have to add Suddenly Seymour and Somewhere That's Green as can't miss.

Ellen Green =

**Sycophant** · 12-23-2008, 08:14 PM

Quoting Mara (view post)

I don't know about "best," but an all-time favorite is the barn dance sequence from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. You can catch the action here.

Watch it all the way through... it escalates.

Oh, I should've mentioned this one! It's awesome.

Also, Russ, good call on "I Love You." While most any sequence from Katakuris deserves a place here in my book, that's probably the one I'd put forward.

**Mara** · 12-23-2008, 08:16 PM

Quoting Sycophant (view post)

Oh, I should've mentioned this one! It's awesome.

I knew you'd know this one. You can't escape your past, Sycophant, it will always catch up with you.

**Mara** · 12-23-2008, 08:37 PM

Another great is Mein Herr from Cabaret.

**Bosco B Thug** · 12-23-2008, 11:24 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

Oh yeah

Skid Row - Little Shop of Horrors

That's a really good scene.

Robert Wise does a hell of a lot with his musical numbers in West Side Story, if memory serves me right. I remember being particularly taken with his camera maneuvering in the "I Feel Pretty" scene.

**Raiders** · 12-23-2008, 11:31 PM

Oh yeah, Little Shop of Horrors.

Suddenly Seymour

EDIT: I see Mara already has this covered. Oh well, worth mentioning twice.

**Adam** · 09-25-2009, 04:38 AM

I have a soft spot for Danny Boyle's A Life Less Ordinary, even if it is kind of a mess with an awful lot of horribly miscast Cameron Diaz packed in. The highlight of the whole thing might be the completely out of left field Beyond the Sea duet Diaz and Ewan McGregor perform somewhere in the middle of the film. Not as nice out-of-context, but still pretty darn sweet

**Spaceman Spiff** · 09-25-2009, 04:49 AM

"On the Street Where You Live" - My Fair Lady

**Mysterious Dude** · 09-25-2009, 04:53 AM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

I don't like movies where all lines are sung however - at all. Probably my least favorite cinematic conceit ever.

I think I've only seen one movie where this is the case, and it is awesome.

**Yxklyx** · 09-25-2009, 02:13 PM

Quoting Antoine (view post)

I think I've only seen one movie where this is the case, and it is awesome.

That's a good one, should try to watch it again this Christmas - you haven't seen The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?

**balmakboor** · 09-25-2009, 03:16 PM

Quoting soitgoes... (view post)

The first that comes to mind is Björk and Thom Yorke's voice channelled through Peter Stormare's body - "I've Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark

With all of the great musicals I've seen, I don't know why the first film I thought of was Dancer in the Dark. I especially like the number set in the factory.

**BuffaloWilder** · 09-26-2009, 04:22 AM

The last ten minutes of Happy Feet - the whole "tap vs. chant" sequence, the "communication" sequence, and so on. The "Boogie Wonderland" sequence deserves some mention, as well.

Also --

While the film itself is pretty subpar, 1989's Tap is really an excuse to get every one of the Elders of Tap together in one room, along with Gregory Hines - and, it is glorious. You've got your Jimmy Slyde, your Sandman Sims, your Bunny Coles, your Sammy Davis, your Fayard Nicholas, and one of the Condos Brothers, to boot. And, even a young Savion Glover, here and there.

Speaking of Hines, that scene with him and Barishnakov in White Nights comes to mind.

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