Divine! Must see.

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I usually don't like old movies - but this one is super. Both Audrey Hepburn & Harrison are delightful.

If you can ignore the flimsy romance between a chauvinist grammar Nazi and Cockney white trash simply because he teaches her how to enunciate, not to mention the piles of gay subtext (refined gentleman and confirmed bachelor who whines that women aren't more like men? C'mon!) you're likely to have a great time. Classic songs, grand sets, amazing costume design, and appropriately hammy yet impassioned performances all add up to hedonistic levels of entertainment; three hours just fly by.

God, I can't stop myself hating musicals. Watch Pygmalion (1938)

A quite naive film, which hinders attend today, but has its charm.

Good in it's own right I suppose, but didn't interest me in the slightest.

Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in classic musical. Brilliant.

A classic, but not in the "serious movie that you cannot understand and sleep though" kind of way. Extremely entertaining, still funny and witty after all these years. Audrey is amazing, the songs are great, just wantch it.

Rex Harrison couldn't sing. Doesn't matter one bit.

One of the essential musicals.

One of the greatest musicals of all time, My Fair Lady is simply exquisite. While she doesn't do her own singing, Hepburn is just fantastic, as is Harrison and the rest of the cast. While it drags at times due to its length, this film is still a must-see.

My two main problems with this film are that a) there is no lead-up to Eliza falling in love; she dances with him for a minute or two and inexplicably falls for him, despite the way he's treated her thus far; and b) I don't understand why she would go back to him, based on (again) the way he's treated her, as well as his mysoginistic views. Despite this, it's a fun, effective film, and Harrison manages to be delightful in a rather loathsome role.