Brigadoon
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Year Released: 1954
Rating: 2.0
Two "big game hunters" (Van Johnson and Gene Kelly) stumble upon a fabled city in Scotland and dance and sing and fall in love - if you have a bottle of Glenlivet handy, feel free to take a shot every time you spot a stereotype or musical cliché in order to 'stimulate' the parts of your brain ignored by this movie. Nothing really places this in the same stratosphere as An American in Paris (not even Kelly's numbers have that usual 'zest') except maybe for Van Johnson, whose boozer buddy character is pretty good as comic relief (the tactic he uses in the bar at the end - lighting three cigarettes and placing them in three ash trays so no one sits next to him - is permanently committed to my memory). But demons and banshees and disappearing cities in Sean Connery's Highlands? Oh come now!
