Bugsy Malone Review
Bugsy Malone is a movie you have to see more than once. I got hooked after the 3rd or 4th viewing. I looked for it everywhere and finally found it at Amazon.com....of course. For some reason, it isn't available from the U.S. This was sent from Asia and arrived very quickly. It plays like any DVD, but instructions, etc are not in English. I'm very hard of hearing, so closed captioning is important to me...no problem. I'm so happy to have this movie available whenever I want. I am continually amazed at the availability of rare things on Amazon. I live on the coast of Oregon, happy to be here, but no access to city shopping makes it imperative that I have a reliable and affordable online source. I'm happy to say I've found it in Amazon.
Bugsy Malone Overview
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.
Bugsy Malone Specifications
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
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