years ago and when darling lili played on tv and it was always the pan and scan version and which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format. so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews or blake edwards opus and i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all. boy and what a terrible film. it so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong. looking at it now and it obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals (mary poppins and sound of music and thoroughly modern millie and etc) but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself (camelot and my fair lady and etc) because hollywood thought she wasn not sexy or glamorous enough. so blake created this stillborn effort and to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story or war movie or romance or slapstick comedy or musical. darling lili suffers from multiple personalities and never knowing who or what it is. some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole and it just doesn not work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing. mind you and the version on the dvd is the director cut and or in this case and let salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop. in releasing the dvd and edwards cut 19 scenes (19. ) from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version. the film moves along with no idea of what it is. we are 25 minutes into it and we still do not know what going on or why were watching what going. what kind of spy is lili. how powerful is she. was she ever responsible for someone death. instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews. things aren not helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love. why does julie fall for hudson. why him and not other men she got involved with. there should have been one of her ex hanging around and trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret. this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action. it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings. there no catalyst in this story. one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews (and edwards) previous successes. the best (or worst) example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest. edwards channeling sound of music. it no wonder he removed it from the dvd. back in 1970 and that scene might have worked on a certain level but today and that moment reeks of desperation. there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews or edwards other films. the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie. the musical moment i will give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie mary poppins persona and which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act. the ending and bird eye view of julie running towards hudson plane and is another wink at sound of music. the whole thing is confusing. julie plays a singer and born from a german father and british mother and who lives in england but sings her (english) songs in paris. you never know exactly where the story takes place. some moments are just badly edited. like when julie and her uncle are on horseback. they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence. i am like what happened here. the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy. every scene with the french police are pathetic. where peter sellers when you really need him. the action is stupid beyond belief. when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train and hudson squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train and almost killing lili in the process. brilliant. what also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning. that one slow moving train there. the musical moments. the beginning is the best part of the entire film (and the reason i gave this film negative ) but it effect is diminished considerably because it repeated at the end. speaking of redundant and did we really need to see a can can dance and crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too. the girl in no man land is ok even if it bleeding obvious and but that moment just doesn not make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital and making me wonder represent how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying. the whole project is listless and without energy. the romance is 100% unbelievable. rock hudson is way too old and tired looking (check out the museum scene). julie looks dazed and like she on valium. but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy. edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision. as much as i like julie and she no greta garbo and who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari. funny enough and even if julie plays a german spy and she still comes across as cloying and cute. how bad is darling lili. even after 37 years since its release and blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release. 
years ago and when darling lili played on tv and it was always the pan and scan version and which i hated and decided to wait and see the film in its proper widescreen format. so when i saw an inexpensive dvd of this julie andrews or blake edwards opus and i decided to purchase and watch it once and for all. boy and what a terrible film. it so bad and on so many levels that i really do not know where to start in describing where and when it goes so horribly wrong. looking at it now and it obvious to any fans of movies that blake edwards created this star vehicle for his wife simply because so many other directors had struck gold with andrews in musicals (mary poppins and sound of music and thoroughly modern millie and etc) but also because andrews was snubbed from starring in projects made famous on stage by julie herself (camelot and my fair lady and etc) because hollywood thought she wasn not sexy or glamorous enough. so blake created this stillborn effort and to showcase his wife in a bizarre concoction of spy story or war movie or romance or slapstick comedy or musical. darling lili suffers from multiple personalities and never knowing who or what it is. some specific scenes are good or effective but as a whole and it just doesn not work at all to a point of it being very embarrassing. mind you and the version on the dvd is the director cut and or in this case and let salvage whatever we can from this notorious box office flop. in releasing the dvd and edwards cut 19 scenes (19. ) from the original bloated theatrical version into this more streamlined and yet remarkably ineffective version. the film moves along with no idea of what it is. we are 25 minutes into it and we still do not know what going on or why were watching what going. what kind of spy is lili. how powerful is she. was she ever responsible for someone death. instead we watch a thoroughly bored looking rock hudson trying to woo a thoroughly bored looking julie andrews. things aren not helped much with the inexplicable reason why the two fall in love. why does julie fall for hudson. why him and not other men she got involved with. there should have been one of her ex hanging around and trying to win her back or trying to decipher her secret. this would have given us some much needed contrast to the muddled action. it would also have given us some impetuous to the sluggish proceedings. there no catalyst in this story. one only has to look at the cut scenes to clearly see that edwards and the writer just came up with ideas inspired by andrews (and edwards) previous successes. the best (or worst) example is the scene when andrews and hudson follows a group of children who sing in the middle of a forest. edwards channeling sound of music. it no wonder he removed it from the dvd. back in 1970 and that scene might have worked on a certain level but today and that moment reeks of desperation. there are other plot elements directly inspired by andrews or edwards other films. the endless scenes of dogfights is inspired by the much better modern millie. the musical moment i will give you three guesses was created just to make fun of julie mary poppins persona and which is turned raunchy with julie doing a striptease in the act. the ending and bird eye view of julie running towards hudson plane and is another wink at sound of music. the whole thing is confusing. julie plays a singer and born from a german father and british mother and who lives in england but sings her (english) songs in paris. you never know exactly where the story takes place. some moments are just badly edited. like when julie and her uncle are on horseback. they talk and talk and then julie suddenly sprints off in mid sentence. i am like what happened here. the comedy bits are unfunny and cringe worthy. every scene with the french police are pathetic. where peter sellers when you really need him. the action is stupid beyond belief. when julie and her uncle are on their way to germany on that train and hudson squadron shoots rounds of bullets at the train and almost killing lili in the process. brilliant. what also funny about that scene is the two leave on the train in the middle of the night but hudson and his squadron reach the train even though they fly off the next morning. that one slow moving train there. the musical moments. the beginning is the best part of the entire film (and the reason i gave this film negative ) but it effect is diminished considerably because it repeated at the end. speaking of redundant and did we really need to see a can can dance and crepe suzette stripping scene and julie stripping too. the girl in no man land is ok even if it bleeding obvious and but that moment just doesn not make any sense whatsoever because lili sings it to a group of injured soldiers at a french hospital and making me wonder represent how many soldiers there were injured indirectly by the result of her spying. the whole project is listless and without energy. the romance is 100% unbelievable. rock hudson is way too old and tired looking (check out the museum scene). julie looks dazed and like she on valium. but what really kills this ill conceived project is julie playing a german spy. edwards desperately wanted to dispel the mary poppins syndrome afflicting his wife and believed that playing a traitor was a good career decision. as much as i like julie and she no greta garbo and who pulled it off so beautifully in mata hari. funny enough and even if julie plays a german spy and she still comes across as cloying and cute. how bad is darling lili. even after 37 years since its release and blake edwards felt he still needed to work on it for its dvd release. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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