The Sound of Music Reviews
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
But it is almost three hours long. And it is so drippy.
Full Review | Original Score: C+
Combustible Celluloid
It's a bulldozer of a musical, plowing straight through things like taste, restraint, grace, and style in favor of big, big, and more big.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
Boulder Weekly
To enjoy director Robert Wise's Best Picture winner you must overlook the bloated, sugar-coated story, and even then it's an uphill slog.
The septet of blond and beaming youngsters who have to act like so many Shirley Temples and Freddie Bartholomews when they were young do as well as could be expected with their assortedly artificial roles, but the adults are fairly horrendous.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
Every audience sniffle and tear has been taken into account.
Film Freak Central
God, The Sound of Music is so freakin' nice.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1.5/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
It's so perfectly contrived and mechanical and fresh as a daisy, it's infuriating. And only the sly, insistently subversive Christopher Plummer is on our side.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/4
TIME Magazine
Top CriticIn dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice.
Common Sense Media
Outstanding family film features glorious music.
Full Review
| Original Score: 5/5
Three Movie Buffs
Objectively I can look at it and see that is a load of sentimental hogwash, but if I relax and just watch it, it sucks me in every time.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/4
Zap2it.com
One of the most enduring, feel-good musicals ever made, with sing-along songs made for the entire family.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/4
Nolan's Pop Culture Review
A classic in every sense of the word.
| Original Score: 5/5
eFilmCritic.com
Blissfully corny family classic.
Full Review
| Original Score: 9/10
Filmcritic.com
Did you really think a bunch of mean old Nazis could keep the angelic Julie Andrews from spreading her music and love?
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
Watching it just makes you feel wonderful.
Full Review
| Original Score: 5/5
A warmly pulsating, captivating drama.
Call me a drongo, but this really is quite watchable (yes, I've seen it more than once).
Flick Filosopher
If only real life offered such satisfying fantasies as those of The Sound of Music.
Full Review
| Original Score: 9/10
Movie Metropolis
To acknowledge the film as anything less than a genuine classic seems mere contrariness.
Full Review
| Original Score: 9/10
Cinema em Cena
Apesar de repetir cada canção duas vezes, o filme jamais cansa, encantando graças ao frescor de todo o elenco - e, em especial, de Julie Andrews.
| Original Score: 5/5
