"Meet Me in St. Louis" is an American 22.5-minute live action short film from 1966, so this one is already over half a century old and maybe you guess correctly already hearing the title that they wanted to launch a television series based on the 1940s Judy Garland Oscar-nominated movie, but it never got picked up. I am not too mad about it. There are no actors from the original film in here, but you will find some known names nonetheless like Fabares, Oscar winner Holm or writer Sally Benson is an Oscar nominee too and back then it still meant something from the gender equality perspective. The fact that this one is in color makes it a better watch I guess, but the clumsy attempts at drama and comedy still make it nothing special at all, more on the try-hard side. The acting is tolerable, but also occasionally over the top, a common problem back then. The music, however, always feels over the top and it is perhaps the weakest component of the entire thing. The family genre aspect is among the better components the film has to offer. So yeah, the negative here is more frequent than the positive I guess and I doubt I'd have kept watching if they had turned it into a (potentially long-running) television series. Shame as you could see the actors and actresses were really trying their everything. I have to give it a thumbs-down though. Not recommended unless you are a big fan of one of the cast members.
Review of Meet Me in St. Louis
