Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Very nice, but very slow....:

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE a lot about this movie, but at the same time, I wouldn't rate it among my favourites. It is wonderfully staged, beautifully acted, and Deborah Kerr is a delight. Yul Brynner (I always worry that I will misspell that) is perfect as the arrogant King of Siam, with his myriad wives and his countless children. The costumes are beautiful, the setting is beautiful. So why don't I like this film a lot? I find it slow, somewhat wordy, and overlong - a film to savour in the memory rather... more info

Fantastic movie. But missing too many great songs!:

The King And I, Is a fantastic film. A great adaption from stage to film. The peformances by Brynner and Kerr are simply amazing, and the beautiful Rita Moreno does a spectacular job as playing the slave Tuptim. I'm sure you know the story, so I won't go on about that. I am most dissapointed with the cut of so many great songs, I understand the film was very long, but cutting many great songs makes the movie less enjoyable for me.

The songs cut for the film are Tuptim's beautiful "My Lord And Master",... more info

Great Movie; DVD *not* Anamorphic:

I confess I only chapter-skipped through this DVD. After I put it on and discovered it is *not* anamorphically formatted (i.e. not specially formatted for wide screen tv's), then I "boycotted" this Fox release by not watching it.

Come on, Fox. In 2004 more people own wide screen tvs than ever before. I *hate* popping in a disk that would look gorgeous on my wide screen, only to discover that I must watch it in "square" format with a letterbox.

The gorgeous KING AND I deserves a good, anamorphic... more info

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