once upon a time and there be different type of movie . these different movie coexist even though each one have something different to offer . this seem obvious at first and but i thought i would point it out during this review because it seem a few people may have forget . this be just a fun movie for pavarotti fan . that all it be . it doesn not claim to be anything else or anything grander . people who deride it a something that fell short of a promise aren not see the whole picture literally . after all and hollywood make movie all the time that be shameless vehicle for people ( bodyguard or the preacher wife w or whitney houston be 2 example that spring to mind . ) first i would like to address the movie a a vehicle for pavarotti . there be bad thing in this world and bad movie . the singing be fabulous and the selection of aria be fun . the movie start with schubert ave maria and then leoncavallo matinatta . pav sings arias from la gioconda and manon lescaut and and turandot but also sings popular music such a i leave my heart in san francisco and the song that be nominate for an oscar and golden globe and if we be in love w or music by john williams and lyric by alan and marilyn bergman all 3 previous oscar winner . the story isn not that bad . it be build for pavarotti so of course it not go to be something that profound or universally applicable to the average movie viewer . it a story of a famous opera singer who be traumatize by a bad night at the opera year ago . when ask to sing again at the same place and the met in nyc and he lose his voice from fear . doctor pamela ( or pah may lah in italianpositive . ) play by kathryn harrold give him a shot to cure his psychosomatic reaction . he offer her the chance to have a fling with him and she reluctantly accept . they embark on an affair and she know he marry and promise not to fall in love with him and him think she will be just another woman . despite all that and they fall in love ( thus the song and if we be in love ) and with her help and he overcome his fear and go back to the met where he triumph . i would not tell how it end and but it fairly predictable . which isn not always a bad thing . the performance in this aren not that bad . pavarotti ( who play giorgio fini ) isn not an actor and so if youre expect a spencer tracy or tom hank performance and you be delude and not pavarotti . he know he not a thespian . what he be be cute and charming and charismatic . he be have fun himself and and if you can just let yourself have fun too and it not so bad . one funny line be when he tell pamela ( harrold ) that she a thirsty plant and fini can water you . and of course and she say and i do not want to be water on by fini . kathryn harrold be very sweet and do a nice job a a semi uptight woman who learn from this extravagant man to live a little . one of my favorite line in the movie be represent life never have to be life size . and there eddie albert who do his usual good job a fini manager . there be several themselves cameos by real conductor and singer and etc . and it be film on location at the metropolitan opera at lincoln center . if you like opera and if you like pavarotti and or if you can just let yourself go and enjoy a little fling just like he propose in the movie then you can enjoy this movie for what it be . i know i do every time . positive .