Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand is about a girl who rises to fame in New York. It follows her wish to preform on stage, and her crazy love life.  It is full of soaring songs, sung by the one and only Barbra Streisand. The Funny thing about this movie was that, over all, it wasn’t funny. When you sit down to watch a movie called “Funny Girl” you expect some good laughs; and sure, it had a couple little giggles here and there, but the wrap up of the movie was depressing. You watch a girl make a lot of bad choices, and have a pretty bad outcome from all of it. It’s realistic, and there’s a good moral to the story, but its nearly three hours wasted on a sad ending. The only things I can give it credit for? The music was amazing  and Barbra acted her role with feeling. You’ll also learn a good lesson when it comes to falling in love, and how cautious a girl should be.

Parental Guide: This G rated movie really should have been PG

Violence: None

Sexual Content: One scene is extremely suggestive. An unmarried couple meet in a private room for dinner, throw around some suggestive jokes, sing a suggestive song, kiss, and get very close.  In a play, many women are seen in their night gowns, and even bra and underwear. Fanny plays a joke and pretends to be a women getting married that is assumed to be pregnant out of wedlock.  Fanny wears dresses that show a lot of cleavage.

Language: One or two D word’s and a couple of “hell’s” during an argument.

Drinking and other negative behavior: Fanny’s husband gambles constantly. Drinks are served and cigarettes are smoked. A man gets in trouble for “under the table” dealings.