I recently caught up with West Side Story on television, for the first time in a considerable number of years.
Sorry to say that for me it is one film that has not stood the test of time. Unlike the great classics of the musical genre such as Singin' In The Rain, The Band Wagon, Meet Me In St Louis and the sublime Gigi, which remain as fresh now as when they were made, I feel that West Side Story has dated rather badly.
The only real pleasure I derived from it was the dialogue - now so corny and outdated as to be unintentionally hilarious.
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