Sound of Music

So this is a must buy. Also the commentary is very good here. But given the price for this on Amazon, just buy the 2 set version. I got the one disc version at a very good price so it is not a bad buy. But for $6 more, why not enjoy the double DVD? This is a must get for any movie fan, and if you are not into the extras, by all means buy this one. This movie, like all of Rogers and Hammerstein's work is emotional without ever being fake or sentimental. It is full of sentiment and completely honest sentiment at that, but never sentimentality. It totally puts to SHAME almost every director and producer and writer working in Hollywood today. Complete and total shame and disgrace. Nothing coming out of Hollywood today can hold a candle to this. Entire director's careers with academy awards can't even begin to even compare to just this one movie. So get some version, especially if you have young ones. Sit them down, and let them experience what a real movie can be.


This has been a great thing to share with my daughter.   July 3, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I grew up with this video and watched it on TV every year. The songs have always stuck in my head. I even did the Sound of Music Tour when I was in Austria. But now I've got my daughter introduced to this beautiful music. This and the Wizard of Oz are her favorites.

I bought the easy piano scores for her to play the songs on the piano, and singing lessons on CD "Voice Lessons TO GO", by Vaccarino (They're great and a lot cheaper than private voice lessons!) for her, (even though I use them when she's at school). So she is confident to sing along while she plays her Edelweis and Do a Dear. We love it.


Not supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but serenplidity!   June 13, 2004
Joanne Madison T. (Singapore)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I watched the movie last year and i thought it was pretty good.The story is about a free-spirited young novice nun who was sent to be governess for the seven unmanageable children of a widowed captain. There, she caught the hearts of the children, and unknowingly, the heart of their father too.

Loosely adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's all-time classic, and inspired by a true story, the sound of music really does live up to its name. Like any archetypical music drama, it features some of the immortal songs ever written like "I have Confidence" and "How to solve the problem of Maria."

Entirely shot in Salzburg with an A-list cast, the movie bagged five Oscars, including Best Picture. It showcases the sweeping beauty of Austria. With Julie Andrews as lead Maria, who won Best Actress for her role as the magical nanny Mary Poppins, she returns with a wonderful performance singing and dancing and mingling with children here. Christopher Plummer, a veteran actor who looked like a forever grimacing idol, plays her beloved. Charmien Carr, as eldest daughter Liesl, shines too, with her versatile voice and graceful moves (ballet moves, if you call it).

I'd think this is one brilliant film...as i've mentioned above,A-list actors,breathtaking view and wonderful as well as unforgettable songs.

With singing and dancing and the strumming of the guitar, there is only one word to sum the movie: it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!


One of the greatest movies of all time!   June 7, 2004
Matthew G. Sherwin
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

It's very hard to know where to begin when praising both this movie as well as the double "digi-pack" DVD of it. Julie Andrews gives a very strong performance as Maria, a misfit nun who is turned out into the world by the Reverand Mother to see if she really wants to be a nun. Her singing range of 4 octaves is beautifully displayed at the end of the song "Do-Re-Mi." Christopher Plummer is well cast as the Captain von Trapp who is not too likeable--yet is charmed into being a man again be Maria's infectious inner and outer beauty. The rest of the cast is well chosen and the viewer is treated to a rare screen performance by Marni Nixon; Marni dubbed vocals for Deborah Kerr in The King and I and she did dubbing for My Fair Lady and South Pacific as well. The second disc contains two fantastic documentaries about Salzburg, the city in Austria where many scenes were filmed, as well as the production and history of the film. The history of the real-life von Trapp family on whom the story is based is well laid out with revealing interviews from family members themselves. In addition, the cinematography is superlative. Very honestly, I cried at the end of the film and I NEVER cry--it's THAT touching! This is NOT a film to be sneered at as being sugary sweet. It's a classic tale of good triumphing over evil as the von Trapp family flees Austria to escape the Nazis.(...)