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List Price: $23.98 | | Label: Panorama
Salesrank: 6509
Released: October 11, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Asian release of award winning DVD directed by Alan Parker (1976) and starring Jodi Foster and Scott Baio. A child gangster determined to rule over New York City. Instead of throwing fists or bullets, the prohibition-era kiddie mobsters sling confections at one another. When he learns that a rival gang has developed a secret weapon capable of firing sweets as quick as a machine gun shoots bullets, he sets out to heist the high-tech tart-launcher. Multi winners of BAFTA Awards. Original English dialogue with English/Chinese subtitles. Digital Dolby/5.1. NTSC. Panorama Ent. 2002.
Description of Bugsy Malone:
Writer-director Alan Parker's feature debut Bugsy Malone is a pastiche of American movies, a musical gangster comedy set in 1929, featuring prohibition, showgirls, and gang warfare, with references to everything from Some Like It Hot to The Godfather. Uniquely, though, all the parts are played by children, including an excellent if underused Jodie Foster as platinum-blonde singer Tallulah, Scott Baio in the title role and a nine-year-old Dexter Fletcher wielding a baseball bat. Cream-firing "spluge guns" sidestep any real violence and the movie climaxes cheerfully with the biggest custard pie fight this side of Casino Royale (1967).
Unfortunately for a musical, Paul Williams's score--part honky-tonk jazz homage, part 1970s Elton John-style pop--lets the side down with a lack of memorable tunes. Nevertheless, Parker's direction is spot on and the look of the film is superb, a fantasy movie-movie existing in the same parallel reality as The Cotton Club and Chicago. A rare British love letter to classic American cinema, Bugsy Malone remains a true original; in Parker's words "the work of a madman" and one of the strangest yet most stylish children's films ever made. --Gary S. Dalkin
Bugsy Malone Reviews:
Awsome Kid Movie 
2009-12-19 - Growing up this was a movie I looked forward to seeing again and again. The imagination of the movie was awsome! The ending has a great message. The movie overall fuels kids imagination and creativity. I can remember the amount of hours my brothers and I dedicated to trying to replicate the pedel cars and cream puff guns.
In english!
2009-12-15 - This is, in fact, in english. It doesn't even have subtitles. The picture quality isn't exactly HD, but I didn't expect that from a movie that came out in the 70s. I'm extremely happy with this movie!
Bugsy Malone is great
2009-11-01 - When my children were very young, I let them watch Bugsy Malone, now they are grown up and have their children watching it also. This is the best piece of work ever made. Thank you Amazon for having it because we could not find it any place else.
A great kids movie 
2009-01-07 - The kids loved this movie made for kids
hard to find movies these days without swearing and bad language
Great Musical
2008-10-06 - I remember watching this movie as a kid. It really has memorable songs, and cute aspects that make an otherwise violent subject (prohibition-era gangsters) humorous. It was cool finding a clean DVD.
