![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's just superb, audacious and sassy and swaggering, and you can't help but like him even as you see him cheerfully taking up a life of crime. He doesn't just act the role, he doesn't just sing it and dance it, he slips into the character's skin and he IS Fagin, in a way that makes it impossible to imagine anyone else in this role. Here we have Ron Moody in the role of Fagin, and he is INDELIBLE. Anyway, suffice it to say: "Oliver!" is the musical at its best. This is a lost art now, I'm convinced, although maybe with the TV series "Glee!" now riding a wave of popularity, there will be some talented musicians and lyricists who will revive this art-form. These are wonderfully singable, indelibly memorable, and they move the plot and action along the way musical numbers in a film should. The songs: "Food, Glorious Food," "Consider Yourself," "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two," just for starters. So: if you find the musical genre contrived or unnatural or kitschy, if it's just not your thing, then don't bother with this movie because it is unabashedly and outstandingly a MUSICAL. But I know that not everyone loves musicals. ![]()
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