The Most Wonderful Time Film Festival: White Christmas
I’ve been putting off writing about White Christmas since Saturday night. I watched it with my whole attention. I enjoyed it. That’s the issue, actually: I may have enjoyed it too much to critique it. I just love it so much.
There, I said it. I love White Christmas. A lot. A lot, a lot. It’s just so funny, and then Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen start dancing, and The Bing and Rosemary Clooney start singing, and they love him, they love him, especially when he keeps them on the ball, and….this is what happens. I go all gooey as soon as they start singing about snow, and I can’t get it together until after the goofy little ballerina girls tip-toe their way around the giant tree at the end. It’s just so good: so sweet, so sharp, so much fun.
That’s all. Watch White Christmas, if you’ve never seen it. Watch it even if you have seen it. Simple, classic, charming. Perfect for a Saturday night writing Christmas cards or just curling up with some popcorn.
December 13th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
*sigh.* I missed this when you first posted it. I still have yet to get the soundtrack, but I do now own my own copy of the movie, so I don’t have to rely on my parents every time I need to hear, “through the air we are flying, like a duck that is dying.”