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Rating:  - I DON'T GET MOONSTRUCK!
I know that this is a very popular film, but I never understood why. To me this tale of infidelity and ethnic caricatures, borders on offensive! I would love to see how people would react if African American families were handled the same way. Yeah, I can see it now everyone in the film is picking cotton, eating fried chicken, watermelon and talking with a speech impediment! Or maybe Asian families with everyone running laundry up and down the street with a rickshaw and.......... talking with a speech impediment!
Please don't start hitting me with hate comments, I am not a bigot, but I like equality for all people and the Italian's are taking it pretty hard in "this-a dull-a un-a-romantic comedy". There are a few good scenes scattered through this film, but overall it baffles me why people love it so. This film didn't offend me, but I don't see any difference between doing a caricature of Italians or any other stereotype! .....except that it seems you can get away with it, if it's done to Italians???? It just doesn't seem fair to me. I only bring this to reader's attention because with all the censoring being done, it just seems to me only certain groups are taboo!
OK now about the DVD, I have the older edition and the transfer seems fine as far as full screen being the correct ratio, I didn't notice anything missing or looking off center. My rating for this film is 2 1/2 star...... translation "The film-a is-a mediocre-a at-a best-a!" ....Now that's Italian!.....Yeah right! ;-b
Rating:  - Moonstruck
A great all-around movie especially if you're Italian or an Italian wannabe like my husband. We watch this movie several times a year. Cher is great in it and so is the ensemble cast. I highly recommend it!
Rating: - Moonstruck
This is an awesome movie. True, a romantic comedy, but also a truthful and entertaining view of life in the United States from the Italian-American perspective. Cher and Nicholas Cage spark up the screen, and the score is wonderfully chosen to fit perfectly in the genre as well....5 stars... Love to watch it.
Rating: - Finally the widescreen!
At long last, the widescreen DVD as we saw it in the theatres. This American classic is a must for all DVD libraries! No one could have filled the roles better. "La Boheme" is a create metaphor throughout that parallels the ill-matched people. Norman Jewison has an acute eye for narrative and photography. Food and the street scenes of Brooklyn (including the Twin Towers) serve as another "character" much as Vincente Minelli did in "The Clock." This is a more positive characterization of Italian-Americans to balance "The Sopranos." "Moonstruck" will warm the coldest of hearts! The Roeblings would be proud how their bridge serves as a magnificent backdrop too!
Rating: - Moonstruck
MOONSTRUCK is a fabulous film.
However, both copies I ordered from AMazon got stuck at the same scene, skipping the following scene if I was able to fast forward it.
I returned both copies with paperwork for each order in the same box, but received credit back for only one copy.
I'm still ordering from Amazon with the hope that this was just a bad batch of Moonstruck copies and a human oversight that there were two bad copies returned.
So == The film is great, but there is a batch of them that are badly flawed.
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