This extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original.
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08/12/08
Funny Girl (1968)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:36
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Barbara Streisand elevates this otherwise rote melodramatic musical with her ultra-memorable star turn as Fanny Brice.
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New... [More]
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis
Director: William Wyler
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Reviews for Funny Girl
Streisand is stunning, but the film is a trial, particularly when the music disappears somewhere around the 90-minute mark and all that's left is leaden melodrama.
08/12/08
Top CriticGiven how she grew into perhaps the most annoyingly egocentric entertainer in all the world, it's difficult to imagine that Barbra Streisand was once an ingenue.
09/17/05
Babs is fabs in her Oscar-winning portrayal of comedian Fanny Brice.
08/31/01
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10/09/01
Well worth watching, even if most later Streisand movies aren't.
01/26/06
Few film debuts in the 1960s were more auspicious than that of Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl.
08/12/08
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01/12/04
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08/22/03
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04/03/04
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
12/30/06
You will have made your mind up about Babs one way or the other, but for the rare uninitiated, this is a fine introduction to her talents.
08/12/08
I wish William Wyler's direction was more inventive and humurous (it's his first musical), but Streisand gives a meteoric performance, as Fanny Frice and as herself, showing a tremendous charismatic presence that goes beyond physical looks and acting.
02/07/08
There's a reason to see this revival and it's called Barbra: fair enough?
08/27/01
In any other hands this might seem like paper-thin stuff, but Streisand's a consummate professional with the Midas touch.
02/17/02
A worthwhile nostalgia trip.
10/08/01
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02/04/02
It looks absolutely gorgeous -- a dye-transfer process has given more life to the already striking colors.
10/21/02
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