| Bugsy Malone | | Cast : | Scott Baio, Jodie Foster | | Director : | Alan Parker | | Studio : | Msi Music Corp | | Format : | Color, Import | | Released Date : | September 15, 1976 | | DVD Released Date : | April 30, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | Amazon sent me a foreign DVD - NOT what I ordered! | Content
 | I ordered this DVD after carefully reading everything. That's not what I got! I got a foreign version of it. Useless to me. Now I'm out the cost of my shipping and will have to pay to send it back. Needless to say I am gunshy about ordering anything again. I think the catch is that there was no picture. If there had been I would have seen the foreign lettering. Bait & Switch at its finest. If Amazon can't redeem themselves somehow in the red tape of emails I have to send, then I am finished with ordering from them. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 30, 2005 | | Summary | Move over Jodie, here comes Florrie Dugger the REAL star!! | Content
| hi everyone, i am a 13yr old girl, and i love bugsy malone - its my fave musical. i have acted in it several times with my performing arts academy in England, and i was the role of Blousey. To be honest,in this brilliant video, i feel really strongly that florrie Dugger was way betta than jodie foster! jodie is a so called star and the best in the show - well i totally disagree and i think florrie shows much more of a personality and better acting skills. She is very undercredited, and i think more people should open their eyes to her amazing drama skills. She was the best in the video - by a long shot! I may be biased cos i am her number one fan, but truthfully, i think jodie is nothing compared to the superb stage presence of miss dugger. this video is amazing, and florrie rules the whole thing with her great acting. this video is a must have for a gd night in of messy fun! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 13, 2005 | | Summary | One of a kind | Content
| Bugsy Malone is a one-of-a-kind movie in that it is a musical performed entirely by actors 16 or under, and most were 13 or under. Words and music by popular composer Paul Williams, all of the singing was dubbed by adults, however.
Great photography and art direction, too.
Although acted by kids, this is not a juvenile movie. It could easily be made with adults with very little changes.
The movie is framed as a late-20's gangster movie, and includes turf wars fought with cream-shooting "splurge" guns, period clothes and 1920's style cars (OK, they are pedal powered but with regular sound), and tough talk (for kids, anyway).
Jodie Foster and Scott Baio are the biggest names, and surprisingly, for the most part the other actors did very little work after this movie.
Full of subtle and not so subtle humor, the movie should entertain nearly anyone. No doubt it was a logistical nightmare (tutors, child labor laws, etc) so one should give director Alan Parker extra credit for the concept for one of his earliest efforts.
Jodie Foster has a great line - "I like my men at my feet" - worthy of Mae West.
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| Rating | | | Date | October 20, 2004 | | Summary | Very nice import copy. | Content
| The DVD that is being shipped is an import from Hong Kong, and was marked for all zones, so it should play anywhere. Very nice copy with a good clean picture and dolby 5.1 sound.
Titles are in english and chinese, but there are no annoying subtitles on the screen when you play it. I have been waiting for years for this to come out in DVD and I am very happy with the DVD. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 24, 2004 | | Summary | My favorite movie! | Content
| This is such a fantastic movie! I have loved it for years and years, and I've never seen anything like it elsewhere!
Bugsy Malone is a musical about two opposing mobster gangs in some unspecified US city in the 1920s during prohibition. Gangster kingpins, city slickers, dancehall girls, and all sorts of hoodlums sing and dance and fight with hilarious 'splurge guns', and the best part is that none of these actors are more than about sixteen years old.
The music by Paul Williams is fantastic, and Jodie Foster (in her first starring role) is great as the mobster's moll. Scott Baio as the slick, street-wise title character carries it off with superb panache.
The end of the movie is a bit of a feel-good cop-out, but the entire movie is so much fun that it doesn't really matter. A fabulous fun movie with great music! |
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