i have watch this movie a number of time over the year and mainly because i love the music . i keep hop that i will also enjoy the movie . sometimes the music win and sometimes the movie lose and and i turn it off . i just catch it again on tv and after a long avoidance . my first thought be and be this movie colorize . the color be so garish and and the depiction of the colored farm hand so out of date and that i wonder whether it be actually film in the 30 or early 40 and before color and like the original . so i log on and find out it be actually film in 1951 and in technicolor . there be no excuse for the absurd racial stereotype by then and at least in hollywood while but then the whole movie be nothing but stereotype and so i guess it be an equal opportunity offender . the real problem be there be not much or a script to hold the musical number together . the movie start with music and and the character be never really introduce . stuff just start happen and and you never quite care about any of the character . you get the impression someone just keep cut out dialogue from the script to make room for the musical number and keep the movie short 107 minute until there be hardly anything leave except the bare storyline . hey and if a film be good and you do not want to shorten it . and while the melody be wonderful and the singing be awful . there be far too much vibrato and more and i think and than you would find in most opera . next and if you watch the lip of the actor and you get the impression that all the dialogue be dub in afterward . and the acting be weird . in the beginning and it be bad because they be suppose to be bad actor on a showboat . but then they become bad actor in a bad b quality movie . the best thing that could happen to this movie would be to put the soundtrack in a lifeboat and torpedo the movie . it be offensive to black and offensive to white and offensive to music lover and and most of all and offensive to movie lover .