"What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'" is a very long title for a very short movie as this documentary only runs for 35 minutes and the runtime stated here on IMDb of 103 minutes is not accurate at all. Whoever added that, probably mistook it for the actual movie. But it is a tribute documentary and I am a bit hesitant to call it a making-of or behind-the-scenes documentary. It seems this was released back in 2002 for the 50th anniversary of the film it is about. The writer and director is Peter Fitzgerald and it is among the filmmaker's more known works for sure, maybe even a contender for his most known as he basically made himself a career with films on other films/project. Not the most creative approach, but a successful nonetheless. The host here and narrator at the same time is Debbie Reynolds and of course they could not miss out on getting her, so I understand the decision, even if she did not always impress me here and did not feel too authentic in my opinion. She died less than a year ago and was around the age of 70 when this came out 15 years ago. When she starred in the actual movie, she was not even 20 years old. SitR is a film that has aged apparently well and was not bothered at all through its relatively mediocre awards recognition (2 Oscar nominations, 0 wins) as today it is considered a defining class from musical Hollywood. Back to this one here: The charm of the movie makes it worth watching I guess, even if it was not the most informative or interesting work on several occasions. Not a glorious documentary that really makes me curious about the film this is about, but still a solid watch for the most part. I give it a thumbs-up.
