Bugsy Malone (1976)

best movie i've ever seen.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Bugsy Malone is a cutesy, fun and nostalgic film fit for family viewing,It will undoubtedly encourage kids to engage in imaginative roleplay (cop v. gangster, gangster v. gangster, broadway performer etc) and put down their electronic gadgets! The costumes and sets were excellent, very visually stimulating and so far as I can tell they were authentic to the time period (late 20's, early 30's). Even the phrases and dialogues were well done. The lip syncing left much to be desired. It was painfully clear that the performers weren't actually singing their songs. The songs stood on their on as great, and choreography was pretty well on point. I don't normally enjoy musicals but this one was so nicely put together that I found myself really engaged in the story, even though it was ridiculous/goofy. This one is suitable for all ages. There's no actual violence, no cursing, no sexual reference (the "worst" was a kiss on the forehead, and dancers wearing tight, swimsuit-like costumes), and the storyline is easily followed.

BUGSY MALONEA gangster movie like no other.This is a musical, gangster film... it is already a bizarre mixture, but the film makers really went all out to make this film different. The whole cast are children.I knew all of this before watching it but really didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if I would like this or not. So when I saw this was on the TV, I thought I would give it a go. It actually worked really well.The story is actually quite bad. Not a lot really happens throughout apart from two leaders of opposite gangs are fighting for the same patch. If this film was made normally, it would not have worked anywhere near as well.One of the things that I like about this film is even though the whole cast is children, they are all made up as adults and act as if they are adults. Even their fake moustaches were really funny.A lot of the songs were really catchy. There were a couple of songs that were not that go, but generally they were very good. When the children were singing, you could clearly see they were miming. It was not especially done well, but maybe this was dine on purpose. When they were singing, all of a sudden the kids had very mature voices. It was really funny.Another thing that I thought was well done was the gun fights. They were all fighting and shooting tommy guns that were shooting pies and custard at everyone. But when they got shot it was as if they were dead. The cars were fantastic. They were the old style cars, but they were actually pedal cars. The funniest part was when they were peddling the cars around, you could hear car engines as if they were driving for real. A really good touch.The cast couldn't act at all... this is the perfect example of children tend not to be good actors. Some of the time it felt like a big budget school play. Bad acting and comical dialogue execution. But even though the acting was bad, it made the film a lot better. The bad acting worked really well with the comedy side of the film.The movie starred Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster & John Cassisi. The funniest character was Fat Sam played by John Cassisi. He was hilarious and was the star of the film, but acting wise I can see why Jodie Foster was the only actress to make it big after this. She was the best actress in the movie.This is relatively short movie, but it is worth a watch. It is funny, weird and confusing as hell to watch.I will give this film 6 out of 10."Someone once said, "If it was raining brains, Roxy Robinson wouldn't even get wet." Roxy had spent his whole life making two and two into five, but he could smell trouble like other people could smell gas. But believe you's me, he should've never taken that blind alley by the side of Parido's Bakery. Whatever game it was everybody was playing, sure as eggs is eggs, Roxy the Weasel had been scrambled."For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

Looks like a recording of an end term school play, held at a posh school with filthy rich parents. The only thing I liked were the dances which were the only rehearsed parts of the whole set-up and the pedal cars and costumes. The acting was really badly timed, badly spoken, ham expressions and adult posturing of the most nauseating kind. Jodie Foster has an impressive stage presence but her performance deteriorated by the minute. Lip synching by adult voices was the most destructive idea which scuppered the whole project! Throwing custard pies was funny in the times of silent black and white movies. It was already beyond stale at the time the movie was made. Alan Parker - curl up and die.

"Bugsy Malone" is comedy with some musical numbers that recreates the gangster films of the 1930's with a ensemble casting of kids and teens. Instead of blood and guns these gangster kids throw cream, pie and shoot with splurge guns to each other. It might not be as glamorous as those movies or even with the same richness of details like "Cotton Club" (1984) but its good intentions and its humor are far better than many forgotten classics of the same genre (and it cost less than the bad "Cotton Club"). The title of the movie is a reference to Scott Baio's character, a young guy romantically involved with Blousey Brown (Florrie Dugger) a young singer trying to get a chance to work in the club of Fat Sam (John Cassisi) a powerful gangster. Bugsy also gets involved with one of Fat Sam's girl Tallulah (played by Jodie Foster) also singer at the club but much more prettier and smarter than Blousey. At last during these good times there's the power battle between Fat Sam and Dandy Dan (Martin Lev) another powerful gangster who happens to own a new secret weapon that's "killing" all the thugs that work for Sam. And now Fat Sam needs all the help he can't get to survive to this creamy battle in New York. This is one of those rare films when you really get jealous for not being involved at it. Seriously, I think all these kids really had a great time doing their parts here, acting like adults in a very cool movie. It makes you think that if when you were child you really wanted to be part of this. All the ensemble casting is great (notably Baio and John Cassisi), they're very charismatic in their roles, not a single bad acting in this movie. The only disappointing thing was the songs. Most of it it's played repeatedly, the lyrics are not so much inspiring and to make things even more creepy all of the songs are performed by adults. That's right, the kids are dubbing during the musical numbers. But it's not all the songs that are bad, after all the Bugsy Malone theme and the song played at the ending are very interesting (this theme was used in a Coca-Cola commercial a few years ago so when I heard some of the lines it was like a Dejá-Vù feeling). What makes this movie so appealing: The kids playing tiny versions of grown-up characters in a gangster movie. Quite original if you consider that most of the movies with this kind of situation doesn't happen, always has to be some adult in the film playing a father or a mother. The kids were left alone in scene and they did a wonderful job. Not just that, there are very funny moments too. The comedy works pretty good (specially Knuckles the dumb thug played by Sheridan Russell, always making that annoying noise with his fingers making Fat Sam nervous). The idea of the splurge gun and all that cream, and the strange cars also were a great idea, a movie starring kids specially made for a kid audience but it's very good for adults too, way better than to take kids to see some stupid little movies with boring punchlines that many adults are forced to watch. I'm giving 9 starts only because of the songs that distracted me in some points but it was a training exercise for director Alan Parker (his first feature film released in theaters) with the musical genre something he would do better with "The Commitments" and "Evita". Worth seeing! 10/10