Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
剧情老掉牙了点，奈何音乐和演出都太好了，妥妥的治愈番
2021.12.24 期待了好久 没想到24号早上就上线了 太快了吧！今天不要抬头 魔法满屋 寂静之海 爱情神话 根本来不及看啊。。竟然是迪士尼第60部作品 一般般 除了高超的技术 没啥突出的 发生在哥伦比亚很简单的故事 而且还有点牛头不对马嘴的感觉 故事就这么潦草的结束了？而且是一部歌舞片 全片感觉起码1/2都是唱歌跳舞吧。。应该是近期迪士尼最一般的电影 就是女主的奶奶遇到追杀他们逃跑 爷爷被杀死因为一个蜡烛发生了奇迹 给他们一家造了房子每个人还都能得到天赋 我其实也已经猜到女主没有天赋了 一天庆祝她的弟弟获得天赋 女主却发现房子出现裂缝蜡烛也有点熄灭了 就去离去的舅舅那发现他预知的未来 后来房子没了蜡烛熄了 他们却重新造了一个新房子却还是有魔法？那个大力的为啥突然没力气了？蜡烛又点着了？
无比狗血，无比扯蛋，无比俗套且三观不正的传统日系浪漫故事，披着科幻皮的青春校园故事。
诗音翩然到来之日
喜欢前半部分不完备AI与歌舞的嵌合，吉浦将跨越式人工智能的神性挪移为带有后设意味的故事推进的歌舞部分，实在巧妙，可惜的是，在大河内缺乏敬畏的嫁接之下，后半部分滑入了自慰般的孩子们的七日战争
虽然不难看出，但是也说不上好看，已经2倍速看了，还是觉得好漫长，好漫长，好漫长
音乐剧+民族特色+一流的动画制作=我完全没有抵抗能力！
你可以永远相信迪士尼，但不代表所有作品都是意浅言深。
今年的生日动画电影。其实有点倍速看的，点子很新内核很老，歌还不错有点迪士尼歌曲那味，烟花告白场面超级美，想到了去年夏天看的言语如苏打般显现。还是比较愉快的🤗
画风好看！剧情一般，但是友情还是挺感人的，最感人的是AI能够将自己的记忆备份，结果记忆里全是悟美的成长的点点滴滴，呜呜感人！以及，青梅竹马必在一起的定律，还是让人觉得“我又相信爱情啦”哈哈哈哈
表现形式虽然很迪士尼 但各方各面都很优秀 歌很好听 妹子很可爱 有泪有燃 不失为一部优秀作品
日式迪斯尼土味歌舞片～这绚烂的画面用在东奥不好么2333
动与静中选择了动，但又感觉动的不够彻底。ai不会包裹住腹部的水手服正好方便暴甲，酷。
抖音上刷到了，歌很好听，找机会看看。2022.3.17。u-next上看了，电影中插曲的整体水平适中，宣传片中出现的场面也只出现了一次，很可惜，我以为是更热烈的歌舞动画。
实在是不好评价，最后私心为了里面的音乐加了一颗星，因为音乐和舞蹈真的太棒了！但是剧情就很平庸，而且本次没有太多深刻含义传递出来，就还是“家庭和谐”的美式主旋律，人物塑造上也颇多值得掰扯的政治正确，故事叙述有明显的低幼倾向，并非具备全年龄段输出新颖深刻含义的上乘作品，但是观赏性还是拉满，尤其坐在影院里跟着片中韵律轻拍大腿真的很欢乐哎！
勉强三星。人物造型还行。音乐没有记忆点但也过得去。就是故事太薄弱。
唱歌这点有点迪士尼的味道，但后半段回归日式青春剧的传统了。
7分，去年的《寻龙传说》剧情我很喜欢，但迪士尼女主不唱歌跳舞总觉得少了点什么，这部虽然剧情不能细想，歌舞倒是量大管饱，最喜欢伊莎追寻自我遍地生草的那段，有迪士尼公主片的feel了。
虽然有太多不足和叙事 人物刻画不充分的地方 可是真的太好哭了我就看不了亲情 哭死我了
槽点太多。。前期强行唱歌也很尬，结尾转折有点强行，且节奏有点怪。。
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