Good music--lame plot

Okay, if you like Rogers and Hammerstein's musicals you will like this movie. However, be prepared to be less than impressed with the rest of the movie.

We've all heard some of the songs. "Some Enchanted Evening" has been recycled at least a thousand times. If it weren't for the song...you would not understand how the two lead characters could possibly be in love. The song tells you it was love at first sight for both of them. The song is necessary, because the movie itself didn't really carry that concept off.

The hero is too old, too unusual and not particularly attractive. The story is cute but not believable. In many areas it drags...and drags. They seem to be making a very serious effort to address racism...but the way it is handled no longer "works" for the contemporary world...

Still there is something about it...the spirit in the music perhaps, that makes it lift your heart in spite of itself.