Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

frankd-64766 William Daniels as John Adams was a part he was meant to play. His intensity throughout the movie was exceptional. It conveyed the true sense of urgency that the colonist had at the time to escape the oppressive British rule. Howard Da Silva was terrific as Benjamin Franklin. He portrayed his wit and wisdom perfectly. I also loved Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson. I'll always know him as "The White Shadow" but he showed his incredible acting range here. As a history and classic movie buff, I had to give this a 10 for the fine performances and great American history.

donlessnau-591-637730 My god, what were they thinking? This quite possibly one of the worst ideas ever to make it to the silver screen. Just cringe-worthy. The real marvel is that they managed to find enough brain dead investors to make this stinkburger. Just awful.

Rob Starzec I think this story would be better fitted for a 2 hour drama, but the drama within this musical is still good and holds up the film nicely. I wasn't sure if I would be bothered by the fact that it is a musical, but honestly there wasn't as much music as I expected anyway, and I only thought one or two songs were unnecessary.In my opinion this film doesn't seem overly long even though it is a 2 hour 45 minute film. In fact, the best scenes in the film are the long, dramatic debates which the characters have with each other inside the Congress building. It keeps the film very enticing and questions ethics instead of just explaining how the Declaration came to be.The character of Benjamin Franklin is surprisingly very funny in this film. At one point, he even seems to make a phallic reference which I never thought would be part of the content for this film - but then again Shakespeare had hidden sexual jokes in his plays as well, and that was centuries before movies were made.One part of a scene that could have been omitted from the film in my opinion is when one of the colonies wants Jefferson's mention of slavery removed from the declaration. Since this movie was about America declaring their independence, this didn't seem to be a crucial part of the story, but this movie was highly about ethics so I suppose the filmmakers thought it was in the film's best interest to include this short debate.This is one of my new favorite "patriotic" movies, and I'll probably be watching it again around this time next year along with Yankee Doodle Dandy.

IndridC0ld At the tender age of eleven, my mother elected to take my sister and I to our first Broadway show. I confess, this was not the play I wanted to see (a short lived production of Childs Play was my choice.) I finally acquiesced based upon the remarkable reviews this production had garnered. How happy I am that I did! This is simply the finest musical ever produced in the United States. From the very beginning, the characters draw you in to that world that was colonial America. The writing of the script is unbelievably well crafted, and even as a precocious boy of only eleven, I was able to clearly understand the overall plot (if not some of the more sophisticated historical references.) What has stayed with me more than anything else, is the enormous respect I gained for those brave men who challenged the most powerful nation on earth and risked their very lives to create The United States of America. This feeling builds through all three acts of the story, and culminates in one of the most emotional finales ever written. If you don't feel the hair stand up on the back of your neck when the final frame becomes the famous woodcut of the signing of the declaration of Independence, you have missed the point entirely.My mother finally (at age 70) became the college professor she was meant to be, and her first class was American government. She proudly used this film as her main AV aid. She continues to be amazed at how few people have seen it. Don't be someone who hasn't!