Title: Major disappointment
Product review: Though this "Gypsy" gets points or point for being the closest to the stage script, Midler is a two-dimensional battle-axe in a role that is one of the richest in American drama. There are no relationships in the film, no love, no nothin'. Rose is just a harpy stripped of any emotion. Anyone who saw Tyne Daly, Angela Lansbury, Ethel Merman or even the miscast Rosalind Russell will find this wanting. Particularly a shame as Daly was a major television star she wasn't used; or that Midler, who's a delightful comic personality, didn't have the chops, but this is a "Gypsy" only for those who don't know the work. If Midler is the only Rose you've seen she may cut it; for the rest of us, a major disapppointment.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
