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The Blue Bird

This film immerses us into a fairytale atmosphere. As for me, I watch it many times, by the way, both in Russian and in English. It's too pleasantly to realize that Soviet Union and US joined together: legendary Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Jane Fonda and outstanding soviet actors Georgiy Vitsin, Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Popov. I was a little child when I found this masterpiece...Even then it left an imprint in my heart, and I'll always remember it with great pleasure and kindness! And know I can recommend u to watch this film and enjoy the playing of the best actors of 20th century. Don't miss the fairytale

This movie is a wonderful movie . its with great pride that i seen it back when i did , a child of all ages should see it for what it is a fantasy , about caring for someone and learning how to work together , it has its ups and downs but so do other movies , i give it thumbs up and hope to see it available on dvd some time

I confess I haven't seen this flick but it got a Gold Turkey Award from the National Lampoon's terrific book of the same name, calling this movie one of the worst ever made. S.J.Perelman once dismissed a silent version of The Admirable Crichton with the phrase, "I won't bother with the plot, which was paltry, or the acting, which was aboriginal" and the Lampoon was pretty similar. They quoted Cicely Tyson as complaining that Russian cinematographer didn't know how to light black actors, so her face simply disappeared into the shadows. They concluded that Maeterlinck's famous tale was unfilmable and that all the movie versions were awful. I look forward to seeing this gobbler someday.

Excellent, brilliant film! If you know what the happiness is, you'll search for it in that film. You'll be a guest in your own past, in your memory.. and you'll enter the amazing world of the future, which is always young. You'll enter the Castle of Darkness and the Palace of All the Enjoys of the World. You will have a lot of difficult adventures. You will have some true friends and some very envious enemies.. The Blue Bird - the symbol of happiness - is always flying somewhere close, but you can't get it in your hands. You'll probably try to answer to one question: "where your happiness is, if you have enjoyed it not once."

I have witnessed many bad films, and I really thought that Blues Brothers 2000 could not be out-done. But this is the most painful, excruciating and unbearable film ever. Do not watch it unless you have taken drugs. The acting is terrible, the directing is terrible, the costumes are just unreal... I cannot go on. It hurts me to even talk about it. What on earth were good actors like Liz doing? I can only assume that the back-ground of a Hollywood-Soviet joint children's film production in the middle of the Cold War was their contribution to bring the world together. Well, I can tell you this: I am a Brit, my wife is Slovak. We both saw it from other sides of the Iron Curtain, and we both agree - it sucks.

A train wreck in every regard. TV style fake sets. Terrible acting. Bad special effects. Embarrassing, stagey direction. Actors who can't sing. For a musical, the first number doesn't come until 30 mins in. And it's not worth the wait. Just awful in every regard. No wonder it's barely been seen since. Taylor is pathetic. The entire film, if you can call it that, is so bad it has to be seen to be believed. Unlike a train accident however, it's very easy to turn away. There's no redeeming qualities at all. It's a horrendous chore to sit through, like water torture. It couldn't have been worse if they tried. And to think that 20th Century Fox dragged their feet on Star Wars, only signing the contract at the 11th hour while this piece of crud had tons of money thrown at it at the same time. Not even rose colored nostalgia can hide the sheer horridness of it all. I rate it a 2 rather than 1 for a few unexpected laughs at Taylor on display, taking it seriously when it's just abominable.

The mankind has been took at madness in a pressure world, everlasting work, tons of bills to pay, sadness and all sort of the misfortunes, then as escapism we quite often delve into fantasy, The Blue Bird was a fabulous fairy tale, taking two children in a travel to searching the Blue bird, they walking for many places through the time, meeting all kind of the characters, good and evil, even their grandparents already dead, Miss Taylor, Jane Fonda and Ava Gardner, and many more, each single scene has a specific meaningful, letting us to unknown wonder world, a special journey to forget our aches and pains, a joint venture USA-URSS co-production, where marvelous Soviet actors made it a pleasant picture, so easy to watch, based on Maurice Maeterlinck novel, a must to see!!! Resume: First watch: 2011 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

I remember hearing the horrendous reviews when this film was originally released. Thirty-three years later, I finally managed to actually see it on YouTube. My, oh, my. Considering the budget and talent involved, it is indeed one of the worst films ever made. Most often, it comes across as a filmed stage play - one with incredibly bad performances. The technical aspects are well below par. The whole naive "political" background actually makes the film even more annoying...did these people actually think that they were performing some sort of noble gesture, bringing the world's superpowers together? If you haven't seen this, really, I suggest that you skip it. It might play as "good bad," if you've had a few drinks with friends. But watching this sober, is just plain tedious.