KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

mandresgasa I remember when I saw for the first time this movie on Argentinian TV. I was only 10 y/o. About three days ago chatting with a friend we remembered this film. Thanks to Internet I had the chance to see it again."Melody" shows two kids (Melody and Daniel) that are dealing with school. Things happens and they became closest friends... and more. But their love is brilliantly exposed, focused on the "child" belief. Excellent songs of Bee Gees, stories that reminds our childhood, "love" as an "innocent" and good thing, you will not be disappointed with the locations, script, and the solid interaction between Daniel and Melody.A kind of movie that nowadays does not exist. What a beautiful piece of art.

RorschachKovacs Unlike a certain previous poster, I can't say I really see there being any big "message" to this film, which is probably just as well. Far from being some screed about how oppressed children are or, conversely, how irresponsible, this is indeed a comedy, and all the moralizing comes from adults too shallow and silly to be taken seriously. This story is more like one of the tales one could find in a distinctly British genre of pulp literature that focuses on the antics of rowdy English schoolboys, albeit with the distinctly 1970s twist that the movie also focuses on the precocious flirtatiousness of rowdy English schoolgirls, making this a romantic comedy. I only got to see this film as an adult some four decades after it first came out, but I'd certainly recommend it as a date movie to any young couple looking to see something romantic without all the raunchiness of the garbage that passes for romantic comedy these days.What's truly amazing about this movie is how it manages to sell us on the fantastic premise of two children who never even do any kissing on-screen (or, it's heavily implied, off-screen either) coming to decide in all earnestness that they want to get married. In their society, which also gets plenty of screen time as a backdrop to the main characters' antics, such a romance makes no sense and is duly dismissed as irrational. Still, as Shakespeare once noted, "...to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays!" In their mutual defiance of all the derision of their peers and all the attempts of the supposedly responsible adults (regularly revealed to be nothing more than petty-minded killjoys) to put them in their place, we can easily see how they come to be more than merely attracted to each other even at an age when hormones have not yet awakened any sexual desire for each other in them.In view of its literary origins and all of this delightful irrationality, perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised that all of the building tension between the lovers and their society culminates in an impromptu wedding ceremony that manages to be simultaneously completely serious and utterly hilarious. (That Ornshaw plays such a convincing straight man to his own usually jocular self in this scene says a lot for Jack Wild's talent as an actor.) Everything ends in utter mayhem as the grown-ups raid the party and the guests fight back, precipitating the shredding of the teachers' clothes and the bombing of Mrs. Latimer's car while Daniel and Melody make their escape to a highly uncertain fate on a trolley.This open ending, of course, did leave me wondering what happened next. I like to think that, as P.J. O'Rourke said in one of the similarly crazy stories he wrote for the National Lampoon, "Everyone concerned eventually came to his and her senses." However, I also like to think that Daniel Latimer and Melody Perkins might ultimately have spoken their wedding vows in full in front of a legitimate parson a few years later when they could hope to attain legal recognition for their love and marriage.

surfaceartstudios I remember first seeing this film when I was a child not much older than the children portrayed in the film. I found it to be very enjoyable and refreshing especially considering that the story centered around kids and that the adults in the film were only secondary characters.The film was a low budget sparsely released project that wasn't an initial success, particularly here in the states which is a shame cause despite it's low budget and low distribution this lil' movie about a pre-teen romance was a gem of a film. My initial reason for seeing it was Jack Wild whom I recognized from the Sid & Marty Croft series; "H.R.Puff'n'stuff".I started watching the movie about these silly little kids in England and then I spotted the first shot of a young girl in the film, I didn't know her name at the time but she played Melody in the film a one Tracy Hyde making her film debut...this boy's heart literally melted for the first time in his young life-it was my first exposure and understanding of what true beauty is....timeless.I am in my mid 40's now, much like the stars of Melody and Tracy Hyde and am now an artist/illustrator this film was a key inspiration to me and to this day the lovely image of Tracy Hyde's Melody has lived on still inspiring after all these years.I look back at the film,which I have a copy of, and remember fondly and some not so fondly images of my younger days, what is was like to be a kid in the 70's, the friendships, trials and tribulations of school life and of that first love discovered-and in the end re-discovered.Melody wasn't a blockbuster, didn't win any awards that I know of and most of the world is ignorant of it's existence ,but it has something that most films sorely lack...it's special-it touched a cord in me and many others of my generation that still lives on achieving it's own special brand of immortality by instilling inspiration and memories of our lost youth.

oswjim this movie is freely available in google video. You can stream it o just download it.Stream: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3578692700171397566Dwnld: http://vp02.video.l.google.com/videodownload?version=0&secureurl= sAAAAIufTPwZZhpzjq5EL2fiOHiax-vrdamYHM0R5PV6FVC8x6w1IgZ-Erfffxv0Uy -PDKcLmL60CbxO3WSuMMNENPF1Q7akGbmO2NcU2lP2DVC8AVYFWmc-3VRUxUs36c8v xpMK59xqml2-TiVKD6DY87q3QbF6pDSubTeA9PVJpIktjX5pFf6Z5qHUM5ZLUw8qXK KMpvZj5egBMEECLxR-qMXhJWtVnmv4taZdR73qJjhDET-d3h8wR3umvTSNsuw81w& sigh=TAJpJ0uO3v1dVzkzC7QHtZniHr8&rdc=1Cheers and enjoy