UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ReneaVeneriStewart Barbara Streisand makes this movie! She is elegant, romantic, and often funny . The movie highlights the ups and downs in the romance of Fanny Brice and Nick Arnstein. Further it includes some mature thematic material, such as dishonesty and marital trials. The romance includes Nick's smooth seduction of the innocent and naive Fanny Brice and hints of his promiscuity. I absolutely love how the producers told the story of the most important and influential producer in the history of the Broadway musical Florenz Ziegfeld.

grantss The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early-1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.Entertaining, especially the stage performance scenes. Barbara Streisand absolutely shines during these scenes. Funny, and with some impressive singing too. The remainder is reasonably good and engaging. Does get fairly schmaltzy at times though, and the mid- to-late section is quite dry as it concentrates on the Brice- Arnstein relationship.As mentioned, Barbara Streisand is great during the live show scenes. She is fine during the other scenes too, especially as there are some musical numbers thrown in every now and again (it is a semi- musical). Streisand won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1969 for her performance (shared with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter).Good work too from Omar Sharif as Nick Arnstein.

MartinHafer Broadway and Hollywood have a long history of creating stories about real life characters that play fast and loose with the truth and "Funny Girl" is no exception. If you are looking for the history of Fanny Brice or, particularly, Nick Arnstein*, then you should read a book! And, since I am just in the mood to sound like a retired history teacher....I'll just skip my complaints about the accuracy of the film! But, if you don't mind that the details are often just plain wrong, the film is exceptionally entertaining. Barbra Streisand was apparently NOT a pleasant person to work with if you read through the IMDb trivia. However, considering she'd been doing the show on Broadway for years and won the Oscar, perhaps in hindsight her diva-like demands were for the best. The film is filled with wonderful songs by her as well as a nice comedic touch. In fact, pretty much all of the film was excellent except for one odd thing--why Omar Sharif?! His singing was passable but to be playing a sophisticated Jewish con-man and gambler, Sharif just seems all wrong. Perhaps Streisand insisted because she thought his being in the film wouldn't overshadow her or would complement her character. I dunno...but it did seem odd. Aside from that, a lovely film--even with its historical lapses (for one, by the way, Streisand was just too pretty to be playing Ms. Brice).*Okay, I will go on a BIT of a rant. The real life Arnstein was from all reports a thoroughly despicable jerk. A crook, a cheat and a man who horribly used his wife. This is nothing like the likable rogue in the film who almost by accident got into trouble with the law! But, having the main character in love with scum wouldn't have been romantic, so I guess I can understand why they so thoroughly sanitized the guy.

Prismark10 Barbra Streisand made her film debut as singer, actress, comedienne Fanny Brice and bagged a Best Actress (co-win) helped by big song numbers such as 'People,' 'My man' and 'Don't rain on my parade.'The first part of the film starts of brightly as Fanny tries to get into showbiz from being a chorus girl and finds out that she steals the show from her bad roller skating. She is brash, determined, single minded, strident and gets her own way which even the Great Ziegfeld soon finds out.The film is then soon bogged down with the love story with Omar Sharif (Nick Arnstein). Although Streisand and Sharif make a good couple, this heavily fictionalized part of the story is just humdrum. You just know that as Brice becomes more famous and rich, her and Nick, her gambler husband will drift apart before he gets involved in a dicey bond caper.Streisand shows the film world her talents and although her singing is spectacular you cannot help wondering whether she could had stretched herself as an actress, because she kept on mining the same type of character. The single minded, dominating, wannabee someone.