If I could have gotten over the fact that Carrie Underwood looked like the Milk Maid from the hot cocoa packages with a baby bump (3 sizes too big), they may have been able to squeak by. Why put a child in to do a woman's job? You can't expect someone who has never acted before to go up against Julie Andrews. The head bobbing thing and cheesy smiles from the Von Trapp family kids was annoying and distracting. It reminded me of those kids' videos from the 1980's with a purple dinosaur dancing around. The fact that the Captain and Carrie had absolutely no chemistry whatsoever was downright scary. I was actually hoping he would run off with the Baroness(either that or that the Nazis would show up.) I will give them the Mother Superior's touching version of "Climb Every Mountain" but her approach to Maria with her preachy demeanor and "in your face" eye glares was distracting. The nun costumes looked like a ridiculous attempt to copy the Flying Nun. I'm still going with a perfect waste of 2 hours.
Review of The Sound of Music Live!
