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| Godspell | 
 enlarge | Director: David Greene
Actors: Victor Garber, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, David Haskell, Merrell Jackson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  162 reviews
Sales Rank: 4197
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Running Time: 103 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD22419D
ISBN: 0767827929
UPC: 043396224193
EAN: 9780767827928
ASIN: 0767827929
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Release Date: April 4, 2000
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Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Fun Way To Learn some inportant lessons... December 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You can watch this with your children,grandchildren or friends. It teaches important life lessons.The movie is fun to watch and the music is great.
 Godspell Rocks! September 25, 2007
This DVD is still one of the best ever. The music is great, the colors and movement are compelling, and the talent of the actors is outstanding! Even with the lack of traditional-ness, it conveys a beautiful and freedom filled Gospel. I recommend it to anyone. Ordering it from Amazon was easy, it arrived quickly, and was in perfect shape.
Godspell a big hit with my Christian school kids! September 9, 2007
This movie is based on the play by the same name. The music is fun and my students love it. I use this movie to help review the parables of Jesus we learned in class. The only downfall is that Hollywood totally ended this movie the wrong way. While they're singing about "Long Live God" at the end, they walk around the streets of New York with Jesus dead. Not true, Hollywood. The lyrics were meant to show that Jesus lived after he died.
Godspell again September 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The rock opera was filmed in New York in the 70s. The twin towers were prominent. It was very good.
 Nostalgic and Fun...and Extraordinarily dated August 26, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I saw this movie probably a half dozen times when it first came out, and thought it was amazing. Of course, I was 13 then and rock musicals were something new and different. It was one of those films that pointed me in the direction of Musical Theatre performance and direction.
Watching it recently as a reference for a production I am directing and choreographing, I found it to be trite, dated, missing large portions of the musical itself, and just so terribly dated it was of little reference value for a modern production of the show.
There are some things I still love -- the cast (I can imitate half of the facial expressions on command); the songs; the whimsy. I do love that they replaced We Beseech Thee with Beautiful City -- a change not permitted for current productions, and a prettier song at a clumsy transition point in the stage musical.
But watching the movie is almost impossible without cringing now -- the orchestrations are terrible, the videography dated, the colors washed out. Victor Garber looks more effeminate now than he did when I was 13, of course, but it detracts from the overall taste. NYC looks dirty, dingy, and...well...smelly in this movie. Yeah Yeah, I know, I lived there for 14 years shortly after this movie was released and it WAS dirty, dingy and smelly...but it's a NYC most of us would choose to forget rather than glorify.
For a far superior musical theatre interpretation on film, set in NYC, see HAIR.
Don't get me wrong, I love the show, once upon a time this was a solid movie musical, but it is just an empty shell of itself at this time. For serious musical theatre nostalgia buffs only.
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