Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

JohnnyLee1 Misses every note. Stars can't even save this hotchpotch. Story is banal, characters unattractive, production numbers repetitive, stars don't match. Obvious attempt to cash in on Funny Girl.

Jackson Booth-Millard Funny Girl was a fantastic musical, famous also for having the lead actress tie in her Oscar win with Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter (because she voted for herself), so was interested to see how the sequel would fare, from director Herbert Ross (The Sunshine Boys, Footloose, The Secret of My Succe$s). Basically, set in 1930's New York, this is a set after singer and comedienne Fanny Brice (Golden Globe nominated Barbra Streisand) has divorced Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif). With the Depression taking effect all over the place she is finding it difficult to find work both on the stage and in recording, but then she meets songwriter and impresario Billy Rose (Golden Globe nominated James Caan), and she does find it easier. Their relationship gets very close and they eventually get married, and Fanny gains back her success in the recording studio singing the songs that he has written. There is a point when Nicky comes back to see her, but he is of course married to someone else, but she naturally still has feelings for him, and he does for her. Of course the marriage with Bill doesn't work as well as Fanny thought it would, and obviously they divorce, and supposedly she continues her success until her death. Also starring Roddy McDowall as Bobby Moore, Golden Globe nominated Ben Vereen as Bert Robbins, Carole Wells as Norma Butler, Larry Gates as Bernard Baruch, Heidi O'Rourke as Eleanor Holm, Samantha C. Kirkeby/Huffaker as Fran and Matt Emery as Buck Bolton. Streisand is a little less enthusiastic in this follow up but still nice to watch and listen to, Caan is okay as her new husband showing her the ropes, there are some catchy songs like "Let's Hear It For Me" and "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)", it is not as fun watch as the original film, in fact it for me was a little boring, but it isn't a completely terrible biographical musical. It was nominated the Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Song for "How Lucky Can You Get" (also nominated the Golden Globe), Best Music for Peter Matz and Best Sound, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy and Best Original Score for John Kander and Fred Ebb. Okay!

judy4mee1254 Let me start by saying that I love this picture. Streisand takes on a role very different from the original 'Funny Girl.' She is very enduring throughout, but the reason that it, in my mind anyway, isn't as good is that, it was made very modern, songs were made to be popular for the time it was made, not as first written. This happens even today all over, but I think it takes away from the picture a little bit. The other thing you must realize is that, Fanny Brice, was a real person, this isn't fiction. Funny Girl is like a fairy tale, and Funny Lady, is what happens after. When I look at this only as a film, it lacks something, but when I look at it as reality, it seems more complete. I always keep reminding myself, that life is not a feature film, things aren't all pretty like they are on screen. I think that this picture shows you that, in it's own way. It's like on of those ultimate Hollywood backstage stories, like, all three versions of A Star is Born, only truer, and bluer. Over all, it is very well done, and I wouldn't want to take anything away from its viewing pleasure, Barbra Streisand, proves again and again, that she is screen worthy.

ptb-8 This musical is just brutal. After the sensational soaring of FUNNY GIRL this bludgeoning sequel is what CARRY ON CLEO is to CLEOPATRA. Honestly, I thought Barbra was channeling Phil Silvers in TOP BANANA against James Caan still in Sonny Corleone mode. Or commode perhaps. The production values and the color is good but Barbra yakketyyakking at Caan's bemused head for 140 minutes just left me punch drunk. Ben Vereen leaping about and Roddy being wistful was sort of OK and some of the dance numbers were enjoyable in a cardboard way. I would actually like the see the reportedly cut scenes, especially James Caan singing "Does your chewing gum get stale on the bedpost overnight" (true) ...apparently he is playing it on a typewriter at the time, and whatever else they decided was 'not good enough' as opposed to what was already there. This even has a imitation 'Don't Rain On My Parade' number with planes trains and automobiles instead of a tug. Something this lady might have actually needed. Brutal. Clobbering. Thank God we weren't bulldozed with FUNNY GRANNY, but I guess there is still time.