Worst Movie Musical ever?

You're nuts. You can't appreciate any of the randiness, humor, or music in it? That's too bad. This is one of Lee Marvin's best roles. He was brilliant at comedy.

You need to get out more. Coppola's version of Finian's Rainbow is a much worse butchering of a classic Broadway musical. The film Mame with the at-least-a-generation-too-old Lucille Ball is unwatchable today; so is The Wiz. The 1968 version of Doctor Doolittle is gawdawful, despite its Best Picture Oscar nomination. Lost Horizon (1973) and Song of Norway (1970) are both appalling. I hate to pick on Coppola, but his One from the Heart (1982) was another dreadful waste of time and talent.

And I have to assume you haven't seen, or are excluding from consideration on some other grounds, such monstrosities as The Apple, Grease 2, From Justin to Kelly, Roller Boogie, Can't Stop the Music, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Lost Horizon
Song of Norway
Camelot

I find your comment too astonishing to dismiss with insults, other than "What color is the sky on your world?"

This is a brilliant film. It is filled with comedy that is actually funny--a rarity for musicals--it was shot vividly on location, instead of on a silly sound stage with pink-painted clouds, and it has extremely good script characterization.

One of the finest American musicals made. I would put it right up there with "Singin' In the Rain" and "My Fair Lady".

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You want a bad musical? You guys aren't even close! The worst musical is The First Nudie Musical 1976. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074533/ with Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley fame. But this is a close second.

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I'd agree that the horrible movie versions made from the wonderful Broadway musicals, "Finian's Rainbow," "Mame," and "Song of Norway," were equally as atrocious as "Paint Your Wagon." The adaptors and producers involved should all burn in hell for destroying these original lovely classics of musical theatre. To confirm, check out the original Broadway cast albums of these four shows, and weep.

Edvard Grieg was long dead and so not around to protect his music in "Song of Norway," but what were adaptors Wright and Forrest thinking of to permit such a mutilation of their enchanting show? Where were Yip Harburg and Burton Lane while their brilliant score for "Finian" devolved into drivel in the movie version? I know Jerry Herman tried unsuccessfully to keep Lucille Ball from embarrassing herself in her dreadful final turn as the movie "Mame," but he would have been far better off refusing the rights altogether to his sparkling musical than allowing it to be destroyed in the manner it was. As far as "Paint Your Wagon" goes, you would have thought that the material would have been safe in the hands of its movie producer, Alan Jay Lerner, since he was the Broadway version's lyricist. You would have thought wrong - dreadfully wrong. It's as if the people in charge of bringing these landmark musicals to the screen all took a vow to forswear taste and judgement, to pander to whatever they thought were the interests and values of the masses at the moment, and to turn what was clever, original, and charming into schlock. Really, it breaks your heart. I hope that, one day, these outstanding works of art will receive the movie productions they deserve.

I think the movie version of Camelot was worse!